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Harvard Adds 600 kWh Rooftop Solar Array
Source: Jon Chase, Harvard staff photographer As part of its goal to decrease institutional energy usage by 30 percent in the 10 years between 2006 and 2016, Harvard University has just installed the largest solar project on campus. Working with Borrego Solar Systems, the university placed 2,2...
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
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Mental Health and Wellness
This Trendline examines how colleges can address rising mental health concerns and support at-risk groups, such as transgender students and college athletes.
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Undocumented students to avoid deportation following Obama announcement
Approved candidates who have lived in the country long enough to receive work authorization
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Ousted University of Virginia president reportedly wanted to protect language programs
Controversy surrounding Sullivan's treatment draws attention of critics, including the AAUP
By Brian Warmoth • June 18, 2012 -
Stanford Lures 3 Top Economists From Harvard
As one of the nation's leading market-design economists, Alvin E. Roth has helped plan systems that place medical residents in hospitals, children in public schools, and kidneys in sick patients. In recent years, the Harvard professor has helped a number of cutting-edge young economists la...
By Lindsey Smith • June 18, 2012 -
UMass Looks to 'Swamy' to Lead Amherst, With Congeniality
Kumble R. Subbaswamy likes to quote Thomas Jefferson: "Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity." Mr. Subbaswamy used the quote in his address to the campus of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in March, during his ...
By Lindsey Smith • June 18, 2012 -
AAUP Censures 3 Louisiana Universities and Rebukes U. of Virginia
Members of the American Association of University Professors unanimously voted at the organization's annual conference Saturday to censure the administrations of three Louisiana public universities for alleged violations of their faculty members' rights. Members of the organization, ne...
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
A Mostly Perplexed AAUP Accepts Pledge to Treat Its Staff Fairly
The proposed resolution appeared to come out of nowhere and it responded to events that went unmentioned, as few members of the American Association of University Professors acknowledged knowing anything about them and those in the know remained silent. In the end, however, the AAUP members ga...
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
UCLA researcher says he was fired for political reasons
After 35-years, Enstrom claims pollution and secondhand smoke research made him a target
By Brian Warmoth • June 17, 2012 -
SF City College Urged To Halt Absent Trustees' Pay
Officials who oversee the state's community college system are urging City College of San Francisco to stop paying trustees for the meetings they fail to attend - a practice the state authority says is illegal. Read more »
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
PSU cover-up suspected as Sandusky trial continues
Other Penn State employees implicated as alleged victims testify
By Brian Warmoth • June 17, 2012 -
Campus Housing Crunch Has Cornerstone University Offering Students Discounts For Accepting 5Th Roommate
A campus housing crunch at Cornerstone University is forcing administrators to get creative. Read more »
By Lindsey Smith • June 17, 2012 -
Threat of accreditation withdrawal causes drop in Career Education shares
Share prices of Career Education, a for-profit education provider, have dropped to their lowest in ten years due to demands that they provide justification for not having their accreditation withdrawn
By Brian Warmoth • June 14, 2012 -
Re-thinking the role of uncertainty in MBAs
According to Erica Dhawan, top MBA programs across the country fail to teach students how to think beyond the conventional methods of conducting business and make future executives far less fit to lead
By Brian Warmoth • June 14, 2012 -
Foreign students wish they had more American friends, study says
Less than half of international students in the U.S. reported being close to their American peers
By Brian Warmoth • June 14, 2012 -
British government allows public-private competition in higher ed
The British government previously set limits on the number of private university students who could receive tax-funded loans
By Brian Warmoth • June 14, 2012 -
Tech start-ups challenge the status quo in higher education
With costs going up in higher ed, start-ups are stepping up with alternate approaches to compete with traditional colleges and universities
By Brian Warmoth • June 13, 2012 -
Michigan State University to end alumni access to school email addresses
MSU's move prompts more than 400 responses as former students react to the decision
By Brian Warmoth • June 13, 2012 -
Education Department ranks colleges from cheapest to costliest
Trends emerge as the average tuition price at four-year public colleges rises 15 percent over the previous year
By Brian Warmoth • June 13, 2012 -
Academic integrity debated as AAUP proposes new standards
A comprehensive report urges colleges and universities to adopt policies regarding research and dealings with industries
By Brian Warmoth • June 13, 2012 -
University of Wisconsin launching new dual-enrollment program for high school students
Students will be able to earn college credits, and high schools will be able to keep state funding
By Brian Warmoth • June 12, 2012 -
Post-graduate enrollment management programs on the rise
As schools go online, admissions operations have followed, and administrators need to become more savvy with data analysis
By Brian Warmoth • June 12, 2012 -
Princeton press to publish e-chapters from 2012 election book before completion
In a non-traditional publishing move, the Princeton University Press will release the first chapters of its book The Gamble before the ending has been written
By Brian Warmoth • June 12, 2012 -
University of Virginia faculty demand more information about president's departure
Faculty want a more thorough explanation of the divide between Sullivan's vision and that of the Board of Visitors
By Brian Warmoth • June 11, 2012 -
UNC professor asked to repay $12K
University wants Julius Nyang'oro to return money after a summer course was inappropriately conducted as an independent study
By Brian Warmoth • June 11, 2012
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