UW-Madison to give older college dropouts another chance at completing degrees
Call it a tryout for the college dropout.
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Judge deals big setback to Trump on ‘Dreamers’ program
A District of Columbia federal judge has delivered the toughest blow yet to Trump administration efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants, ordering the government to continue the Obama-era program and - for the first time since announcing it would end - reopen it to new applicants.
University leaders seeking solutions to Greek life problems
With Penn State University president Eric Barron as a co-leader, academic officials from 31 universities met in Illinois on Monday and Tuesday to discuss ways to combat hazing, binge drinking, and other problems in their fraternity and sorority systems.
Initiative to reduce textbook costs
Edison State Community College is teaming up with the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC) as well as universities from around Ohio to reduce the cost of student textbooks.
Court fight looms over debts of former Corinthian Colleges students
Thousands of former Corinthian Colleges students face a potentially pivotal court hearing Monday in a battle to erase millions of dollars in loan debt for their studies at the scandal-scarred, for-profit schools....
EvCC joins the legal effort to protect DACA’s ‘Dreamers’
Everett Community College has joined dozens of other higher education organizations in supporting a legal challenge of President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that allows young people who arrived in the U.S. illegally as children to remain in the country.
Why Bill and Melinda Gates put 20,000 students through college
America, built on the dream of upward mobility, has become a country of deepening divide between rich and poor.
Report: Koch college donation came with teacher firing rights
Virginia’s largest public university granted the conservative Charles Koch Foundation a say in the hiring and firing of professors in exchange for millions of dollars in donations, according to newly released documents.
Is tenure dying? Does it matter?
The proportion of America’s college students taught by tenured professors has steadily shrunk over the years.
Fifty-Percent Powered By Solar, American University Achieves Carbon Neutrality
Washington, D.C.-based American University (AU) has achieved carbon neutrality, meaning it has a net-zero carbon footprint.
