Filter & Sort
Weighing For-Profits' Access to Military Bases
Legislators, veterans groups and for-profit colleges wrangle over details of an amendment that would expand for-profit colleges' access to students on military bases.
Not So Gainfully Employed
New study says typical experience of those who enroll at for-profit colleges is a decline in earnings and a rise in debt.
Seminaries Squeezed
Mainline Protestant theological schools are exploring mergers and campus sales as they feel a prolonged enrollment and financial pinch, but experts see smaller institutions bubbling up under different faiths.
Opinion
Searching for the Humanities
John Fea, a history chair, describes what he learned on his daughter's college tours about the presence or absence of a liberal arts ethos.
Determining a Student's Place
More community colleges are moving away from relying on placement exams alone to figure out whether incoming students need remediation, but establishing a substitute system can be tricky.
Available City Seeks College
Red Wing, Minn., hopes to attract a four-year institution but faces stiff competition from larger, sunnier cities and a history littered with failed branch campus attractions across the country.
Tension at the Top
A spate of resignations and terminations among community college presidents provokes worries about a shortage of qualified candidates to fill these positions.
From Singapore to Santa Fe
An education company based in the Asian state seeks to buy the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.