Business issues

Revamped NCAA report on Division I finances reinforces previous findings that big-time college sports programs spend far more than they earn -- especially when institutional subsidies are included.

Despite sport's hefty cost, colleges continue to add teams amid economic downturn, citing desire to build enrollments or enhance campus culture.

Drexel University will open graduate programs in Sacramento, with an eye toward creating a full-blown undergraduate university in northern California.

As many states slash budgets, college coffers are growing in a handful of oil- and gas-producing states.

With sights set on going public, Grand Canyon U. snags a leader from a crosstown behemoth in for-profit higher ed -- the University of Phoenix's parent company.

To facilitate more interactive teaching, one college considers a different type of classroom. The barriers to building it are instructive of sometimes conflicting trends in college planning.

NEW YORK -- The Nokia store on 5th Avenue looks like something Timothy Leary might have dreamed up on an acid trip.

As a gaggle of college bookstore owners enter through Nokia’s glass doorway, the neon blue walls behave in chameleon fashion, melting slowly into green. The latest Nokia cell phone models adorn the walls, and -- in a pretty nifty trick -- product descriptions of each phone flash on flat screens anytime the phones are touched.

Mutual fund managers see greater investment returns from companies headed by those who attended the same colleges and universities as the managers did, a new study finds.

When a production company tells your president or dean it wants to profile your college or school in a national television documentary, the offer may not be what it seems.

With the promise of higher salaries, new programs lure psychologists, sociologists and others into colleges of business.