Wisconsin For-Profit Oversight Board Defends Role
Of the 46,634 Wisconsin adults enrolled in private institutions (most of them for-profit) during 2012 and 2013, 36.5 percent dropped out within 2 years, according to a new report by the Wisconsin...
View ArticleCollege Apologizes for Way It Gave M&Ms to Children
Horry-Georgetown Technical College has issued an apology for the way a faculty member handed out M&Ms at an event for children, MyHorryNews.com reported. The M&Ms were in pill containers, and...
View ArticleFlorida Court Upholds Rules on Faculty Contracts
A Florida appeals court has upheld, 2-to-1, regulations imposed by the State Department of Education on faculty contracts at the state college system in Florida, CBS Miami reported. The rules have been...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Why Pets Matter
In today's Academic Minute, Megan Mueller, a research assistant professor at Tufts University, discusses her work on studying the bonds of human-animal relationships. Learn more about the Academic...
View ArticleNew Leader for Community College Network
Karen A. Stout, president of Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania, has been named president & CEO of Achieving the Dream, a network of community colleges focused on "evidence-based...
View ArticleU. Illinois-Springfield Professors Form Union
Tenure-line faculty members at the University of Illinois at Springfield have formed a union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. The new union has 137 members, who organized under the...
View ArticleCompilation on Idea of Free Community College Tuition
Inside Higher Ed is pleased to release today The Debate on Free Tuition at Community Colleges, our latest compilation of articles. The compilation features articles on the Tennessee plan, other state...
View ArticlePaul Quinn Will Become Work College
Paul Quinn College, a historically black institution in Texas, plans to become a work college, meaning that all students will work throughout their time at the college in return for much lower tuition...
View ArticleCarnegie Mellon Accidentally Admits 800 Applicants
About 800 applicants to a master's program in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University on Monday received e-mails accepting them to the program. Then, seven hours later, The Pittsburgh...
View ArticleOklahoma Lawmakers Seek to Bar AP History
A legislative committee in Oklahoma has voted to ban the use of state funds for teaching Advanced Placement U.S. history, The Tulsa World reported. Lawmakers complained that the curriculum focuses too...
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Boston College Faces Probes on Disability issues
Boston College is facing federal and state investigations of whether it has done enough to make its campus accessible to people with disabilities, The Boston Globe reported. Campus officials say that...
View ArticleWest Virginia Teams Punished for Recruiting Violations
Coaches for 14 teams at West Virginia University impermissibly texted and telephoned prospective athletes in violation of National Collegiate Athletic Association rules, the association announced...
View ArticleBig 12 Conference Announces New Concussion Policy
The Big 12 Conference announced a new policy for diagnosing and managing concussions Wednesday, requiring member institutions to follow guidelines released in July by the National Collegiate Athletic...
View ArticleCUNY Maps Itself
A mapping project by the City University of New York takes a stab at figuring out how diverse its students are compared to the neighborhoods that surround the system’s two dozen campuses.A researcher...
View ArticleInstructure Expands in Corporate Market With New Funding
Learning management system provider Instructure is inching closer to an initial public stock offering, and on Wednesday the company announced it had raised another $40 million in investor funding. The...
View ArticleNew York Times Launches Online Education Initiative
The New York Times and CIG Education Group on Wednesday announced the media organization's latest ed-tech initiative: NYT EDUcation, an online platform that will offer everything from college...
View ArticleJudge Allows Reconsideration of CCSF Accreditation Case
A California judge has cleared the way for the City College of San Francisco to seek a reconsideration of its accreditor's decision to revoke recognition, The Los Angeles Times reported. The decision...
View Article2 Law Schools in Minnesota Will Merge
William Mitchell College of Law, a free-standing institution, and the law school of Hamline University will merge, the institutions have announced. Both are located in St. Paul. The combined law school...
View ArticleIllinois Governor Seeks Nearly $387M in Higher Ed Cuts
Illinois's new governor, Bruce Rauner, this week proposed a $387 million cut to the state's higher education budget. About $209 million of that will come from the University of Illinois -- that's...
View ArticleA New Call for 'College for All'
The Center for American Progress is today releasing a new paper on how to provide, as the paper's title says, "College for All." The paper says that a variety of changes in policies should enable all...
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