Institutions

Students at New Mexico community college who get one-time grants for unexpected life expenses – from car payments to emergency medical expenses – stay enrolled at higher rate than other students.

The financial climate is prompting many theological schools -- small, endowment-dependent institutions, many of them -- to consider mergers and other new ways of doing business.

New medical schools are launching curriculums with more use of simulation and more social science -- and many established schools are moving in that direction, too.

California's community colleges are being told to enroll more and more students -- even as they cannot find ways to educate and graduate those already there.

In transnational program, American students will begin medical school in Brisbane, and end it at the U. of Queensland's new clinical school in New Orleans.

Community college leaders praise its unprecedented attention and many campus leaders say the $12 billion could be crucial. Others warn not to view the president's agenda as a panacea.

Liberal arts institution, unable to balance budget, will become part of a for-profit, online university. The college will survive and grow, but tenure and the Lutheran affiliation will soon disappear.

Caribbean medical school's suit against Arkansas agency takes larger aim at whether accreditors and state boards discriminate against foreign trained doctors.