U.S. Universities’ Integrity: Dartmouth professor of economics David Blanchflower and former Dartmouth professor Andrew Oswald write (requires free registration) in the Sunday Times of London about how U.S. universities have ensured their independance and financial stability while the British Universities have floundered (culminating in recent “cash for admissions” scandals). Dartmouth is “the most effective fundraiser, per head, of any major American university,” and the writers outline the ways in which its strategy (including alumni relations and need-blind admissions) and those of Harvard and Johns Hopkins might be applicable to the faltering ancient universities of England.