Fifty years ago, college was a luxury. Back then, you could still graduate from high school and get a good paying job that would guarantee you a place in the middle class. Those days are gone. A postsecondary...

In this fast-paced Iowa City life of waking up hungover all the time, one's schedule can fill up quickly. Hitting the snooze button can take up to four hours, and then there's that whole eating thing,...

Holding that "no matter what one makes of associational rights, friendship cannot have greater status than political speech," the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that an Illinois...

While health care gets most of the attention as an inflationary juggernaut — climbing inexorably upward in spite of public outrage and economic turmoil — health-care inflation wilts when compared with...

Earth Day has passed, but at the University of Iowa, Earth Week is in full swing. From the Sustainability Festival this Friday to the recent designation of the UI as an Arbor Day Foundation "Tree...

Why can't my country be like any other country? As I am talking to you, I don't know what is happening there right now or what will be happening tomorrow or in a week's time. Poor people are being killed...

Today is Phil's Day at the University of Iowa, a day when we celebrate the generosity that makes the UI such an excellent institution. In many ways, our university's entire mission is about giving —...

President Obama will address the looming college-affordability crisis that will affect hundreds of thousands of college students in Iowa and beyond. A 2007 plan that steadily lowered the interest rate...

While I had the benefit of growing up in a family in which charitable giving was part of my early life's experience, I still vividly remember a moment — from the spring of my senior year at the University...

So who knew Mitt Romney was an expert on cookies? I'm pretty sure most of us had the idea he was an expert on air-tight dog kennels perched on car roofs and firing people, then bragging about it. But...

Retaining America's status as a world economic power requires us to take back our status as the best-educated country in the world. The only way to do that is to enact education reforms proven to improve...

Private support has made all the difference in my academic experiences. Without the vital funding provided by merit scholarships, I wouldn't have been able to attend the University of Iowa, where I have...