With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
Oklahoma higher education officials are asking for a $90.4 million increase in next year's budget, NewsOK reports. Higher education officials announced their budget request for the 2013-2014 fiscal…
Philosophy lovers, prepare to be outraged. Down in Florida, a task force commissioned by Governor Rick Scott is putting the finishing touches on a proposal that would allow…
Internet data usage in the U.S. has continued to rise, jumping 120 percent in the past year, reports the Washington Post. That’s according to a study from Sandvine,…
In olden, pre-Twitter days, graduate students traipsed around academic conferences meeting peers and mentors, reports U.S. News & World Report. But Twitter chats--or hashtags, the number signs indicating…
Alexis Greco has not attended a class all semester at Occidental College here, reports The New York Times. She has not so much as thumbed through a book.…
The number of college students in the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps has grown 50 percent since the 2005-06 school year, with the Army outpacing its goals for…
Although the United States no longer leads the world in educational attainment, record numbers of young Americans are completing high school, going to college and finishing college, according…
Brian Caffo teaches a public-health course at Johns Hopkins University that he calls a “mathematical biostatistics boot camp,” the Washington Post reports. It typically draws a few dozen…
While Hurricane Sandy left hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers without electricity or heat, the loss of one utility left some especially bewildered: cellphone service, reports The New…
