higher education

by P.D. Lesko Eastern Michigan University is the largest single employer in Ypsilanti. The 800 acre university campus anchors the city’s downtown, but provides no payments in lieu of the property taxes the non-profit doesn’t pay (PILOT…

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was murdered on Sept. 10, 2025, at the start of a college campus tour that centered on Kirk discussing politics – and education – with students. A large part of Kirk’s political activism centered on…

by Andre Perry Renowned education reformer Horace Mann said in 1848, “Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men — the balance wheel of the social…

We need to find better ways to support students while they study — here are a few by Ruth Bauer White, The Hechinger Report Every school year and summer during my time as a first-generation college student, I worked to put myself…

by Matthew J. Mayhew Editor’s Note: With many college students forced to return home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, tensions and arguments are bound to flare up. Here, Matthew Mayhew, an education researcher who co-authored a book about …

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS recently filed suit against the University of Michigan Board of Regents for allegedly violating the state’s Open Meetings Act statute. The allegations are based on analyses of over a year’s worth of votes taken by the…

“COUNTY TAXPAYERS PAY $345 per $100,000 in taxable home value to support Washtenaw Community College. In 2012-2013, county taxpayers paid $45.9 million to WCC officials. In return the two-year college’s President Bellanca graduated just…

By Christina Bravo COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE terrible eaters. Those four years aren’t known as the time for juice cleanse experiments, after all. But perhaps we can’t blame their recent struggle with malnutrition on one too many bowls of mac…

The University of Michigan's Lecturer's union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), entered talks for the group's fourth contract with on November 30, 2012. LEO, as the union is known, represents some 1,500 full-time…

by P.D. Lesko President Obama came to Ann Arbor to tell the country that federal aid to colleges should be tied to tuition costs. Federal aid to students would remain untouched, and a cranky Congress would have to pass the President's…