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Strayer and Capella Announce Merger
Diversification bid from the two well-respected for-profits comes amid serious shake-up of the sector, which continues despite a more favorable regulatory climate.

Opinion
The Need for Slower Administrators
Senior administrators seem to be required to be busy at all times, and that has created the unfortunate situation where they are often isolated from faculty and staff members, argues Thomas J. Pfaff.

Trading Places at the Accountability Table
Jamie Studley, former key Education Department official, will lead the Western region's accrediting agency, part of an industry her Obama administration bosses chastised.

Texts That Undercut a President
New questions are being raised at Kennesaw State after local politicians boasted about influencing the president’s decision on how to respond to a racial protest movement.
New Presidents or Provosts: Bowie State U, Carteret CC, Great Basin College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Muhlenberg College, Portland State U, Rockland CC, U of Texas El Paso, U System of Georgia, Warren Wilson College
Michael A. Baston, acting provost and vice president for academic and student affairs at LaGuardia Community College, part of the...

Presidents and Provosts Gather to Consider Free Speech Issues
Participants agree that campuses must be places for all views to be expressed. But some academic leaders also see this as time to change the narrative on higher education and to challenge the idea of students as “snowflakes.”

Richard Spencer and a Tale of Two Publics
University of Cincinnati will let the white supremacist speak. Ohio State, citing safety concerns, is “considering other alternatives.”

The New, Improved IPEDS
A decade in the making, upgrade of the federal government’s main higher ed database enables tracking part-time and adult students and gauging graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients. Limits remain, though.
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