Israeli University Breaks Ground on China Campus
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology broke ground Wednesday on a campus in China. Technion is partnering with Shantou University to establish the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology....
View ArticleCareer Ed Closing Down Le Cordon Bleu Operations
Career Education Corporation announced yesterday that it will stop enrolling new students at the Le Cordon Bleu Colleges of Culinary Art after Jan. 4, 2016, and wind down operations. The for-profit...
View ArticleNavitas, Western Kentucky End International Partnership
Navitas, an Australia-based company that develops and recruits international students into “pathway programs” that combine English as a second language and academic course work, announced this week...
View ArticlePittsburg State President Turns to Adele for Solace
To whom is a president to turn when students rush from campus to start the holiday break, and even fellow administrators are leaving town? For Steve Scott, president of Pittsburg State University in...
View ArticleModest Increases for Student Aid, Research in Spending Bill
Congressional leaders early Wednesday morning unveiled the details of a government spending bill that would boost some student aid and federal research funding.The spending deal would allow the maximum...
View ArticleBlackboard CEO Addresses Sale Rumors
WASHINGTON -- Speaking to reporters during a media event at the company's new headquarters, Blackboard CEO Jay Bhatt on Wednesday addressed the rumors that the company is exploring a sale that could...
View ArticleTwo-Year Perkins Extension Clears Senate
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday breathed new life into colleges’ efforts to revive the expired federal Perkins Loan Program.Lawmakers passed, on a voice vote, a bipartisan deal that would revive the...
View ArticleFeds Warn Colleges With Secret Credit Card Agreements
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent warning letters Wednesday to 17 colleges that it says may be in violation of federal law for not disclosing agreements they have with credit card...
View ArticleIowa President Denies Saying Professors Should Be Shot
Bruce Harreld, the controversial new president of the University of Iowa, is now denying that he ever said professors who are not prepared for class "should be shot," The Gazette reported. On Tuesday,...
View ArticleQuestions About Honor for UCLA Chemistry Professor
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has been asked to review the nomination of Patrick Harran, a chemistry professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, to become an...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Tesla and Ford
Today on the Academic Minute, W. Rocky Newman, professor and coordinator for supply chain and operations management at Miami University, explores the differences and similarities between these...
View ArticleGeorgetown Professors on 'Star Wars' Questions
Georgetown University is excited about the new Star Wars film -- and the institution has produced a series of videos in which professors apply their scholarly expertise to such topics as light sabers...
View ArticleUAW Nullifies California Grad Students' BDS Vote
An academic boycott of Israel has divided the graduate student union for the University of California System since last year, when members voted to join the movement over the objections of many of...
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Ex-President of Middlebury Will Lead Brandeis
Ronald D. Liebowitz has been tapped as Brandeis University's next president. Liebowitz will begin his tenure at the Massachusetts college in July.He led Middlebury College, in Vermont, from 2004 until...
View ArticleMerger Planned for 2 Philadelphia Universities
Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University on Thursday signed a letter of intent to merge.The governing boards of each institution unanimously agreed to support a pending merger. Both...
View Article2 Embattled Presidents Resign
Leslie McClellon announced that she is stepping down as president of Rochester Community and Technical College, in Minnesota, The Star Tribune reported. In an email to the campus, she said that leaving...
View ArticleKaiser Permanente Will Open Medical School
Kaiser Permanente on Thursday announced plans to open a medical school in California in 2019. The nonprofit insurance and hospital system plans for the medical school to reflect what it considers to be...
View ArticleAcademic Minute: Black Colleges
Today on the Academic Minute, Melissa Wooten, associate professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, discusses the role of historically black colleges. Learn more about the...
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U of Kansas Sets Record for Holiday Sweaters
The University of Kansas says it has set a new world record -- 3,473 -- for the number of people wearing holiday sweaters at a single event. The record was set at a basketball game Saturday.
View ArticleKresge Grants Support Urban Education Ecosystems
The Kresge Foundation announced today that it will provide $1.1 million in grants to support civic, social, business and education institutions that align to promote student success in California,...
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