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Funding Boost for NIH
National Institutes of Health would see increase of more than 4 percent next year under a Senate budget measure drafted Tuesday. The maximum Pell award would also grow.
Strategies for Recruiting Students
With the traditional-age college population flattening if not shrinking in many parts of the U.S., colleges and universities are under...
Evolving ACT
New scores will be added and some parts of the test will be tweaked.
Disunited Front
Higher ed leaders have been overwhelmingly skeptical of President Obama's plan to rate colleges. But they don't agree on whether and how the government should hold colleges accountable.
Rankings Noise
What would it really take to be in the U.S. News top 20? And can anyone really change in the 'beauty pageant' of the reputational survey?
Faculty Tips for First-Gen Students
A university taps into its instructors' expertise with underrepresented students to produce videos that help professors at other colleges help those students.
Many Comments, Few Surprises
As public comment period ends for the administration's "gainful employment" proposal, for-profit colleges and supporters blast the rules as an overreach; critics of the industry say proposal doesn't go far enough.
Have Job, Will Enroll
New companies try to bridge disconnect between employers and community colleges, with job guarantees and digital badging as part of their pitches.