Classes you get when you give college students control
For much of each week, UC Berkeley senior Caelle McKaveney studies chemical signaling in spiders, nucleotide coding patterns and other serious science.
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Scott: Fla. should cap fees at colleges and universities
Gov. Rick Scott envisions an easier way for Florida students to get a diploma — and, critically, a job — without an avalanche of debt.
More than 800 college programs stick grads with too much debt
More than 800 career education programs saddle students with debt they can't afford to pay, the federal government said Monday, pointing the finger primarily at for-profit programs, but also at graduate programs in the arts run by elite schools such as Harvard and the University of Southern California.
Los Angeles college pays $28,000 in ransomware
A community college in the San Fernando Valley has become one of the latest institutions to pay ransom to hackers who took control of its computer system.
Bruce Springsteen’s archives will go to Monmouth University
When Bruce Springsteen was getting his start, there were two things about the Jersey Shore that made it an intense incubator for music: There was an after-hours club run by musicians that stayed open until 5 a.m ...
How the UC system is bracing for an escalation of political clashes ahead of Trump
It was the biggest political showdown at UC Davis in years: Hundreds of students and activists turned out last week with protest signs and noisy chants, ultimately shutting down a planned talk by provocative conservative Milo Yiannopoulos.
US school’s Chinese-language exam leaves native speakers speechless
A Chinese-language final exam paper at a high school in New York has left internet users amused and confused, reported guancha.cn on Saturday.
Brown proposes more funding, but phasing out middle class scholarships
Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2017-18 budget proposals for higher education continue his campaign for more efficiency and access at California’s public college and universities...
S.C. agency says it failed to vet $534M in college projects
Over a 14-month span, the S.C. Commission on Higher Education rubber-stamped some $534 million in college building projects without adequate vetting, its leaders told state lawmakers this week
CCSF keeps accreditation, ending years of uncertainty
Friday the 13th was an unusually lucky day for City College of San Francisco.
