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Where the Weaknesses Are in Student Financial Wellness
A survey of students’ personal finance realities reveals the need for stronger financial literacy education and support.
Capital Campaign Watch: Albany Pharmacy and Health Science, Morehouse, North Dakota State
Starting Out Morehouse College has started a campaign to raise $500 million. The college announced that the campaign would be...
Students File Legal Complaints to Force Divestment
Students have long called on colleges to divest their endowments from fossil fuels. Now organizers at MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt and Yale are deploying the law to end such investments.
New Programs: Nursing, Business, Social Work
Lyon College is starting an R.N.–to–B.S. in nursing program. University of La Verne is starting a doctor of business administration...
University of Kansas Looks to Cut 42 Academic Programs
Faculty members agree with the administration on cutting 28 programs but are fighting to keep 14 others alive. More cuts may be on the horizon for the state university system.
College Endowments Boomed in Fiscal 2021
The average endowment’s size increased by 35 percent, leaving 19 percent of institutions with endowments worth more than $1 billion. But experts say few students benefited from that growth.
Charitable Gifts to Colleges Top $52 Billion
Alumni giving is on the rise. So is the share of charitable gifts with no strings attached, thanks largely to the billions MacKenzie Scott donated to HBCUs, tribal colleges and community colleges.
Much More Than Bones
An anthropologist at San José State University says she’s being retaliated against for her views on what to do with human remains in research facilities and for her handling of those remains. Her critics question her understanding of the discipline as a whole.