Dickinson, a private liberal arts institution, creates link to honors programs at four two-year institutions, offering financial and academic support in hopes of attracting new cohorts.
Submitted by Doug Lederman on April 10, 2009 - 3:00am
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Bowdoin is poised to discipline a professor for research errors that he says officials went looking for only because they didn't like the content of his work -- not unlike another recent case.
Liberal arts institution, unable to balance budget, will become part of a for-profit, online university. The college will survive and grow, but tenure and the Lutheran affiliation will soon disappear.
As top administrators at Gustavus Adolphus leave positions mysteriously, faculty want review of new president -- and get warned by board chair of possibility of being sued.
As College Democrats fight for recognition at Liberty U., other liberal student groups maintain peaceful relationships at traditionally conservative institutions -- and so do conservative counterparts at more liberal institutions.
Amid recession, group of small private colleges asks NCAA to reconsider measure that requires basketball shot clocks to show tenths of seconds and football referees to wear wireless microphones.
Submitted by Scott Jaschik on July 23, 2009 - 3:00am
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Leaders of small and mid-sized private colleges are less likely than those of other institutions to have come immediately from a provost's job, survey finds.
In a perilous time for many small colleges facing economic difficulties, a cadre of ex-presidents and consultants are increasingly called on to clean up the mess and set the stage for recovery.
