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Letting the Flagship Steer
LSU's governing board combines the top jobs at the system and flagship in a new model they hope will gradually eliminate distinctions between the two and grow the institution's profile.
Need and Want
Facing financial constraints and public pressure over students’ debt, some colleges move away from need-blind admissions -- which are often costly to the institution and students -- in favor of reducing "gapping."
As Harvard Goes...
Preliminary data from annual survey of college endowments show that institutions averaged a small loss in investment wealth, with institutions of all size seeing minimal returns.
Italian Entanglement
Reported dysfunction at a New Hampshire-approved college outside Turin raises questions about the role of states in overseeing institutions abroad.
Leveling Off
Two new reports by the College Board show more moderate tuition increases than in previous years, but restrictions on federal aid spending could lead to higher net prices going forward.
New Presidents or Provosts: California Community Colleges System, California State U. System, Central Arizona College, Spartanburg CC, U. of Maryland University College, Waynesburg U., Zion Bible College
David Arnett, vice president for academic affairs at Central Bible College, in Missouri, has been selected as president of Zion...
Unconventional Tuition Vote
California politicians are targeting students and faculty members to support a ballot measure that, by raising taxes, could stave off cuts to higher education and tuition hikes.
Her Side of the Story
Constance Bumgarner Gee -- best known in academe as "Gordon Gee's ex-wife who smoked marijuana at the Vanderbilt presidential mansion" -- publishes a frank memoir.