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Top Hat Monocle and Pearson enter distribution partnership
The partnership will offer optional packaged subscriptions to Top Hat Monocle content with Pearson's college textbooks.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 14, 2013 -
ACE president tells UW Regents to adapt to shifting student demographics
Working adults are now the majority, and the driving force of change in higher education.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 14, 2013 -
Trendline
Emerging Technology
As higher ed deals with enrollment declines and other challenges, colleges need to consider how increased and changing use of technology affects students and campus finances.
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Tornado leaves millions in damages at Mississippi campus
The University of Southern Mississippi suffered extensive damage Sunday, and the higher education commissioner is looking at options.
By Brian Warmoth • Feb. 14, 2013 -
Tornado leaves millions in damages at Mississippi campus
The University of Southern Mississippi suffered extensive damage Sunday, and the higher education commissioner is looking at options.
By Brian Warmoth • Feb. 14, 2013 -
AAUP calls for clearer policies in first report on campus sexual assaults
The report, while focused primarily on faculty, recommends that everyone in the campus community be involved in developing policies.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 14, 2013 -
Does the White House's new College Scorecard oversimplify institutions?
Advocates of liberal arts education say it focuses too much on short-term financial outcomes.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 14, 2013 -
Judge lets Lehigh lawsuit over C+ proceed
Both sides received criticism, but Lehigh's didn't convince Giordano to dismiss the suit.
By Brian Warmoth • Feb. 13, 2013 -
How will higher ed accreditation work in the online age?
At a forum hosted Stanford's Graduate School of Education, experts and innovators debated the meaning of an education and how to measure it.
By Davide Savenije • Feb. 13, 2013 -
House GOP calls for President Obama to provide long-term student loan interest solution
The one-year extension on the interest rate freeze expires in July.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 13, 2013 -
Scholars push back against rising college costs
The authors of three working papers proposing several funding models say change is necessary.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 13, 2013 -
President Obama proposes value-based accreditation in State of the Union
The president once again put colleges on notice to keep costs under control.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 13, 2013 -
Calif. legislative analyst's report calls Brown's higher ed budget into question
The report calls for clearer performance expectations, among other things.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 12, 2013 -
Report: Pell Grant restrictions cause enrollment declines in Southern community colleges
Thousands more students are expected to lose eligibility this year.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 12, 2013 -
Lehigh University faces $1.3 million lawsuit over a C+
A former grad student is arguing that the grade stifled her career as a counselor.
By Brian Warmoth • Feb. 12, 2013 -
Missouri two-year college adds 'job readiness' and attendance scores to transcripts
Will such scores catch on at other institutions?
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 12, 2013 -
New paper says colleges should be held accountable to taxpayers and students
The Institute for College Access & Success paper proposes consequences for schools that "do more harm than good" to graduates.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 12, 2013 -
Another setback delays opening of Duke's China campus
The new campus will now open in fall 2014.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 12, 2013 -
BYU, Harvard and Stanford top U.S. News list of schools with highest 'yield'
The average yield has fallen in recent years.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 11, 2013 -
Critics say new Virginia Senate bill would allow student groups to discriminate
One state senator says its purpose is to give religious student groups the right to deny membership to those not practicing the same faith.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 11, 2013 -
George Washington U administrators skeptical of MOOCs
The uncertainty could delay the school's MOOC rollout.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 11, 2013 -
Student programs an iPhone app to apply to Stanford
But did he write an app that will actually get him in to the elite program?
By Brian Warmoth • Feb. 11, 2013 -
Michigan university to reimburse graduates struggling with loans
The move comes as other schools have decided to sue loan recipients.
By Brian Warmoth • Feb. 11, 2013 -
Online education's takeover outpaces January expectations
Several recent developments are propelling higher education toward its future, but what that future holds remains unknown.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 11, 2013 -
Score reporting scandal inspires one of the three largest donations in Bucknell's history
The donation defies conventional wisdom about donors shying away after bad news breaks.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 11, 2013 -
Report commissioned by Paterno family calls Penn State's Freeh report 'fundamentally flawed'
The new report, issued by the family of the late coach, claims the Freeh report's accusations of Paterno's involvement in the Sandusky scandal are bogus.
By Roger Riddell • Feb. 10, 2013