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January 18, 2019
As disputes at North Carolina and Michigan State take partisan overtones, can boards, leaders, faculty members and lawmakers back away from polarization to lead public universities effectively?
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January 18, 2019
Many college students rely on income -- whether a parent's or their own -- from closed federal agencies. Some colleges are trying to help.
January 18, 2019
Despite a plan to cut a third of classes, City College of San Francisco is growing.
January 18, 2019
Ontario cuts domestic student tuition by 10 percent while scaling back aid spending. Colleges won't be made whole, and students who got grants covering their full tuition will receive a portion of their aid in loans.
January 18, 2019
Harvard University: German chancellor Angela Merkel
High Point University: Michio Kaku, the theoretical physicist.
January 17, 2019
Board of Trustees pushes out interim president John Engler after nearly a year of tumult and eye-opening comments at Michigan State, including recent suggestion that some abuse victims enjoy "the spotlight."
January 17, 2019
Erroneous job ads with the preferred candidates' names in the titles roil academics who have experienced "sham" searches.
January 17, 2019
University of Nebraska at Lincoln is under fire by students who thought police should not have mentioned in a campuswide bulletin that two men accused of sexual assault were black, believing that it reinforced harmful stereotypes.
January 17, 2019
A Trump administration proposal would set new rules for who qualifies as a regional accreditor, potentially forcing some oversight bodies to drop hundreds of schools if enacted.
January 17, 2019
Requiring that at least 40 percent of search committee members be female was followed by a drop in hiring of women, study found.
January 16, 2019
Board pushes Folt out in two weeks as chair says she took draconian action, but faculty cheer chancellor for ordering Silent Sam remnants removed overnight.
January 16, 2019
Hampshire College, the nearly 50-year-old experiment in self-directed education, facing "bruising financial and demographic realities," looks for a partner.
January 16, 2019
Longtime Stanford English professor says he's stepping down from a teaching a Native American literature course after students complained he was culturally insulting and possibly unqualified.
January 15, 2019
Carol Folt announces she has ordered removal of Confederate plaques and that she is stepping down. System board leader criticizes her actions.
January 15, 2019
Roman Catholic colleges have some of the most open curricula among religious institutions. But that didn't stop Franciscan University from banning a book that portrays the Virgin Mary as sexual -- and ousting a department chair for teaching it.
January 15, 2019
Students struggle to find a place to live over winter break. Colleges and universities are trying to develop solutions, but they have been criticized for being insensitive to the homeless student population.
January 15, 2019
A student believed he was hacked when all of his classes were mysteriously dropped. But what actually happened is more complicated.
January 15, 2019
Koffi C. Akakpo, vice president for business, administrative and student services at North Central State College, in Ohio, has been named president of Bluegrass Community and Technical College, in Kentucky.
January 14, 2019
Lawsuit over whether retired president is owed hundreds of thousands of dollars per year plus perks -- including an apartment -- sheds light on the issue of executive compensation.
January 14, 2019
Can “light-touch, targeted feedback” to students via email improve their perceptions of and performance in a class? New research says in some cases the answer is yes.
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