(TNS) — Faced with a drop in enrollment and a budget crisis, it was clear when President Sheri McMahan was hired she had to get creative to get things at Eastern Washington University back on track.

But what is a polytechnic? As the name implies, a polytechnic is not a university. But this ought not to be a crime but a mere emblem of distinctive identity. In its classical state, a polytechnic is ...

UW-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen notes that there is “no single definition of a polytechnic university.” The tenets of Stout’s polytechnic designation include career focus, applied learning and ...