Universities and colleges
Why College Costs So Much
Journalist and College Professor Anne Matthews talks about why college tuition is skyrocketing, and how campus culture and student expectations have changed over the years. Her new book is called "Bright College Years."
Jane Smiley's Newest Tries to Fulfill the Promise of Her Last Name
Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the imaginative author's comic novel, Moo.
Neither of These College Films Deserves High Marks.
Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead fills in for Stephen Schiff and reviews two new movie releases--"With Honors" with Joe Pesci and "PCU" with David Spade. They're both campus comedies.
Deconstructing the "Cultural Elite."
Commentator Maureen Corrigan talks about going back to school.
Debating Language Codes on College Campuses
We discuss free speech on college campuses with ACLU counsel Ed Chen, Nat Hentoff, University of Wisconsin legal counsel Pat Hodulik, and Brown University President Vartan Gregorian.
Is the United States Losing its Intellectual Culture?
Russell Jacoby, whose new book, The Last Intellectuals, American Culture in the Age of Academe, contends that American culture is not producing the intellectuals it did during the 40s and 50s.
The History of Yale's Poets and Spies
Fresh Air book critic John Leonard reviews a new book by Robin W. Winks, which tells the story of the OSS and CIA's recruitment of scholars at Yale University.