The bad news for U.S. universities keeps on coming. Last week, Pew Research released the results of a September 2025 poll showing that increasingly large majorities of Republicans and Democrats ...

Minouche Shafik has spent a career straddling the worlds of government, central banking and academia. She has held senior positions in the World Bank, the U.K. government, and the International ...

An eye-opening New York Times article, written by a professor at neighboring UNC-Chapel Hill, Dr. Rita Koganzon, caught my attention last week. It describes how universities are increasingly extending ...

The world has entered the second half of the 2020s amid convulsions reshaping an industrial order that has stood for over a ...

After weeks of chainsawing the federal government with no regard for the destruction of vital departments or the damaging effects on everyone from American farmers to veterans, Elon Musk recently ...

Last week, I wrote about what leaders can do to create what Margaret Wheatley called islands of sanity: microclimates of connection, trust, and meaningful work that offer team members some respite ...

We must do what should have been done long ago: find our way to a new social contract between universities and the American people. Whatever form it takes, the life of the mind is essential to ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. We are living in a moment of profound civic dissonance. Never before have citizens had more ...

The House and Senate talked past each other for 43 days only to finally emerge with an agreement that restarts government funding but fails to address key health care and appropriations ...