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…
The doors to the state’s newest medical school are already open, technically. A gleaming building with new labs is ready to house researchers and students. But when the…
The University of Connecticut's new president says it needs to push its endowment fund past $1 billion, more than triple its current amount and a threshold that's proven…
Despite a competitive economy in which success increasingly depends on obtaining a college degree, one in four students in this country does not even finish high school in…
Last week Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli wrote that concealed weapon permits overrule the University of Virginia's strict no gun policy, i.e. it's fine to walk on campus…
Today Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, introduced the State and Local Funding Flexibility Act, a bill that would provide states and…
As state subsidies for higher education are dwindling, public colleges in the Washington region and elsewhere are learning they must tap private funds to survive, reports the Washington…
In a 17-page-report released on Wednesday, the Liberal Arts dean at the University of Texas rejected Rick Perry's much touted plan to treat students as 'customers' in order…
If the top business officers at America’s colleges had their druthers, professors would have heavier teaching loads, and tuition would keep rising, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
A Northern California family must pay $750,000 for a massive 2007 wildfire that destroyed papers written by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, a jury decided, reports the Huffington…
