Stop defending and start showing: How colleges can win back trust by looking past the campus walls
To build trust, colleges must show clear proof that they can deliver on the promise to make people's lives better and society stronger
Virtual Symposium examines worldwide growth of online access
Distance learning, open courseware, eBooks, wikis, and many other innovative technologies have forever affected education by connecting any topic in any discipline to any learner in any place.…
Rule change takes aim at loophole in Title IX
The Education Department no longer will allow universities to rely solely on electronic student surveys to prove they are meeting the requirements of the gender-equity law known as…
Bill Gates kicks off college tour
While the world faces enormous challenges such as feeding its populations, developing clean energy, and fighting diseases, many of its best and brightest citizens are focused on other…
Supreme Court hears text-messaging privacy case
The U.S. Supreme Court appears likely to rule against public employees who claimed a local government violated their privacy by reading racy text messages they sent through their…
Colleges appeal to students with green policies
Small private colleges and large research universities alike have adopted green policies in recent years in an effort to trim energy bills, encourage sustainability, and lure environmentally conscious…
Universities looking to federal government for funds
Public university presidents from across the nation are meeting this month to talk about replacing dwindling state support for their campuses with more dollars from the federal government,…
New virus extorts cash from visitors of porn sites
A new type of malware infects computers using file-share web sites to download pornography and publishes the user's internet history on a public web site before demanding a…
Palin dispute raises questions about university foundations
