Colleges and universities became Exhibit A last week of how quickly the credit crisis is extending beyond Wall Street.

Robert Steven Kaplan may be the equivalent of a fill-in head coach who takes his team to the Super Bowl and wins.

Not many college presidents are as well situated as Erskine Bowles, former White House chief of staff and a director of Morgan Stanley.

Advice to anyone who wants to become a successful (and rich) men’s college basketball coach: Connect to Kansas.

For the second time in a little more than two years, Harvard University has named a new person to oversee its mammoth endowment fund.