The powder keg underlying explosive discontent in the Arab Middle East was – and remains -- the disconnect between the economy and the system of higher education.

Imbued with a sense of victimhood, entitlement, and cultivated grievance that can only be taught, today's college students respond to inconvenience with temper tantrums.

J. M. Barrie's famous 1904 play, Peter Pan or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, reflected the difficulty of the young entering the adult world in Victorian times. The story, still enormously popular, made the refusal to grow up sound charming. Far less charming is the thwarted transition to adulthood...

Today we live in an America with enormous cultural variety in which very few things are considered universally verboten. But on college campus it's different.

A change in the federal student loan program can potentially produce more studious behavior from many students, not only in college but also in primary and secondary schools.

The Department of Education's recent call for "gainful employment" rules that will regulate postsecondary vocational programs on the basis of their graduates' ability to pay back their federal student loans is a step in the right direction.

When it comes to making the case for the niche they fill, the for-profit colleges and universities must be more proactive about showing that they do add to the common good, and they must be more transparent about how they do so.

Expelling college students for suicidal thoughts or behavior violates clinical common sense; instead, universities should adopt enlightened individualized approaches to helping these vulnerable students.