Nickle and Dimed by: Malcolm A. Kline, April 22, 2009 Long before America became accustomed to corporate fat cats asking for handouts like well-dressed homeless people, a cadre of millionaires has been subsidized by Uncle Sam with precious little oversight. Of course, we’re talking about college presidents. How Colleges Grade Themselves “One measure of the effectiveness of higher education spending is the degree to which public universities and colleges in the state successfully competed for grants and contracts,” Dr. Ernie Gross of Creighton University alleges in a report published by the Nebraska-based Platte Institute. Apparently, literacy and the transmission of...