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Racial Equity in Funding for Higher Ed

Since the last recession, the U.S. has made little progress on the funding gap for colleges that serve disproportionate shares of students of color. That gap may widen as the country heads into another recession.

Newly Tenured… at Howard, UMass

Howard University Muneer Abbas, medicine Ofosuwa Abiola, arts and sciences Matthew Bruckner, law Niambi Carter, arts and sciences Gerald Daniels...
Opinion

A Dean's Lessons From the 2016 Presidential Election

This year’s election promises to be unlike any other in modern memory, so we must support students and help channel their feelings into meaningful action, writes Anthony W. Crowell.

Blaming the Messenger

The editor of a student newspaper is facing sanction by the institution's president for reporting considered routine journalistic practice. Free press advocates call it an "egregious" violation of the First Amendment.

American Public Education Acquires Rasmussen

American Public University System’s parent company plans to acquire Rasmussen University, it announced Wednesday, casting the tie-up between for-profit institutions...

Fitch: Negative Pressures Continue Into 2021 for Higher Ed

Fitch Ratings expects any changes to the higher education debt it rates to be predominantly negative into 2021 as the...

Academic Minute: Intercorporeality

Today on the Academic Minute, Robin Zebrowski, associate professor of cognitive science at Beloit College, examines why many of us...

Groups Ask DeVos to Extend Moratorium on Making Student Loan Payments

Seventy-seven advocacy groups wrote Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday asking her to extend the moratorium on borrowers having to...