South Carolina State U Declares Financial Exigency
South Carolina State University's board on Wednesday declared financial exigency, potentially making it easier for the university to eliminate jobs of employees, including faculty members, the...
View ArticleTOEFL and GRE Return to Cuba
In a sign of improved U.S.-Cuba relations and the desire of American colleges and universities to recruit students from Cuba, the Educational Testing Service will offer the Test of English as a Foreign...
View ArticleStudent Loan Watchdog to Leave U.S. Consumer Agency
The official who has driven the U.S. Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's increasingly aggressive scrutiny of student loans and for-profit higher education is leaving the agency. Rohit Chopra, the new...
View ArticleMcCaskill Urges End to Era of 'Protecting Athletes'
U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill told a group of college athletics officials Wednesday that while she appreciated the progress they had made in combating sexual assault, college athletes are still too often...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: The Madden-Julian Oscillation
In today's Academic Minute, Adam Sobel, a Columbia University professor, details this phenomenon known better by its acronym, the MJO. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
View ArticleDean College Goes Test Optional in Admissions
Dean College, in Massachusetts, announced Thursday that it will no longer require the SAT or ACT for admissions. “The test-optional policy will better align the college with its commitment to a...
View ArticleHow to Better Serve Returning Adult Students
Up to 35 million Americans have enrolled in college at some point but failed to earn a degree or certificate. A new report from Higher Ed Insight, a research firm, tracks the challenges adult students...
View ArticleCareer Education Corp. Sells Brooks Institute
Career Education Corporation, a major for-profit chain, announced Thursday that it is selling Brooks Institute to gphomestay, a company that works on international student programs at high schools and...
View ArticleCollege of DuPage Trustee Violated Ethics, Audit Finds
There's more bad news coming out of College of DuPage, outside Chicago, after an internal audit revealed that the chair of the two-year institution's board violated the college's ethics policy by...
View ArticleEx-Student Pleads Guilty in Noose Incident
Graeme Phillip Harris, a former student at the University of Mississippi, on Thursday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of threatening force to intimidate African-American people at the university...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Year 2038 Problem
In today's Academic Minute, the University of Surrey’s Radu Sporea discusses how the year 2038 may create technology issues similar to those of Y2K. Learn more about the Academic Minute here.
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Japan Pushes Universities on Flag, Anthem at Events
Japan's education minister has set off a debate in higher education with a call for universities to fly the country's flag and sing the national anthem at graduation ceremonies, The Japan Times...
View ArticleHow USC Seeks to Raise $6 Billion
An article in The Los Angeles Times explores how the University of Southern California is seeking to raise $6 billion in a fund-raising campaign. The article notes the travel of the president and a...
View ArticleAnother Chicago-Area Community College Faces Ethics Scrutiny
The College of DuPage isn't the only community college outside Chicago facing scrutiny over its ethics. The Chicago Tribune reported that South Suburban College has been awarding no-bid contracts to...
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Elson Floyd, President of Washington State, 1956-2015
Elson S. Floyd, president of Washington State University since 2007, died Saturday from complications from colon cancer. Floyd won widespread praise for his work at Washington State University, where...
View ArticleClinton on Veterans and the 90/10 Rule
Hillary Clinton last week said as president she would seek to crack down on the for-profit college sector's aggressive recruitment of military veterans, the Associated Press reported. The former U.S....
View ArticleMore Questions on Graduation Rates at Ivy Tech
Ivy Tech Community College, a statewide community college system in Indiana, has been facing questions from legislators about what they perceive to be low graduation rates. Now Ivy Tech is facing the...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Silicene Transistors and Moore’s Law
In today's Academic Minute, Deji Akinwande, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, discusses Moore’s law and some groundbreaking technology...
View ArticleMass Murderer Again Applies to U of Oslo
Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer who killed 77 people in an attack in 2011, has again applied to the University of Oslo, The Local reported. Breivik applied previously but was told...
View ArticleCFPB Letter on Student Debt Relief Scams
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on Monday wrote to three web search engines -- Google, Bing and Yahoo -- to ask the companies to work with federal and state authorities to prevent...
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