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Louisville's Foundation Mess
State audit finds fault with management structure and decisions under former president, who responds that auditors failed to consider Louisville's "amazing academic trajectory."
Push for Debt Forgiveness
Education Department officials say they will work through Jan. 20 to review claims of defrauded students, but borrowers and advocates call for more urgency.
Think Tank Trouble?
University-affiliated research centers face a fight for funding and an assault on experts, but few think institutions will be able to resist future ventures.
New Programs: Social Work, Health Informatics, Criminal Justice, Development Economics, Biomedical Engineering, Dance
Anna Maria College is starting a master’s program in social work. Gardner-Webb University is starting a bachelor of science in...
An $828 Million Private Scholarship Program
The MasterCard Foundation’s scholarship program funds high school and higher education for thousands of students from Africa.
Carbon Neutral Quickly
Middlebury meets a tight deadline for going carbon neutral in part by using credits from forest preservation.
Opinion
Academics as Suburbanites
The fact that the relationship between higher education institutions and their faculties can be like that of cities and their commuters illuminates the cultural problems on many campuses.
U.S. Underestimates Cost of Loan Programs
GAO report faults Education Department for serious ‘shortcomings’ in estimating cost of income-based repayment programs, giving new ammunition to congressional Republicans.