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  • The top 10 universities in the world by reputation

    Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States all see schools land in The Times Higher Education's top survey results

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • CU-Boulder Study: University System's Total Economic Impact On State Is $5.3B

    The University of Colorado's four-campus system pumped $5.3 billion into the state's economy in 2011, according to an analysis released by the school Wednesday

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • Trendline

    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. 

    By Higher Ed Dive staff
  • Daily Value: $6 billion cost to government for 1-year student loan rate extension

    Keeping Stafford loan interest rates from doubling this year is an expensive, but pressing issue for Congress

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
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    Name to Know: L. Rafael Reif, the current provost and next president of M.I.T.

    As a backer of MITx and edX with Harvard, Reif will continue to play a major role in M.I.T.'s future

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • James Franco weighs in on commencement speeches

    The actor admits to struggling with his speech writing but offers tips to anyone who finds themselves searching for material

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • Name to Know: New College Board President David Coleman

    The Common Core designer moves into a position of influence over the SAT and AP standards

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
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    UNC Charlotte Posts Personal Data on 350,000 People

    System misconfiguration and incorrect access settings are to blame for exposed data discovered by staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • Catholic university drops student health coverage over contraception mandate

    A Roman Catholic college in Ohio announced Tuesday that it will discontinue its student health-insurance plan in the upcoming academic year rather than offer students a plan that would soon include free birth control

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • Rethinking the humanities Ph.D.

    The warning last year from Russell Berman, who at the time was president of the Modern Language Association, was apocalyptic: If doctoral programs in the humanities do not reduce the time taken to graduate, they will become unaffordable and face extinction

    By Brian Warmoth • May 16, 2012
  • The Homework Trap

    Kenneth Goldberg, Ph.D. writes on the stresses introduced by homework for Edutopia

    By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012
  • U Of Maryland, Baltimore County Employees Out Of Jobs After State Audit Uncovers Improper Expenditures

    Issue, including purchase of $4,400 in gift cards, referred to attorney general

    By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012
  • Name to Know: University of Texas President William C. Powers Jr.

    Powers' face-off over tuition prices has reportedly put his job his opponents' crosshairs

    By Brian Warmoth • May 15, 2012
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    Florida A&M President Suspends Band Through Next Year

    Florida A&M University has suspended its famed marching band, which has been embroiled in a hazing scandal, for the forthcoming academic year, the president, James H. Ammons, announced on Monday.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012
  • More College Presidents Hail From Outside Academia

    Michael Alexander has heard it all before: People with business backgrounds do not understand academia and are ill-equipped to lead colleges and universities.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012
  • Daily Value: $31,048 in debt per student for New Hampshire graduates

    Dartmouth College and University of New Hampshire students are among some of the most debt-afflicted in the U.S.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012
  • 13 schools who have produced the most Fortune 500 CEOs

    In the wake of former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's departure, a look at which schools make the most powerful leaders

    By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012
  • Indiana U. Signs Pearson into eTexts Program

    Deal will offer new textbook options for instructors as they look to reduce curriculum prices

    By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012
  • University of Texas community rallies behind Austin president in dispute with politicians

    The idea that students would come out en masse to support a president after he repeatedly tried to increase tuition over his superiors' objections might seem farcical, but it's exactly what happened last week in Texas.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 14, 2012
  • Daily Value: $2.4 million settlement in Virginia nursing students' fraud suit

    73 former Virginia Western Community College nursing students to receive compensation after school lost its accreditation

    By Brian Warmoth • May 13, 2012
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    Name to Know: Leslie Wong, the new president at S.F. State

    Wong steps into a big California school as state budgets continue to tighten

    By Brian Warmoth • May 13, 2012
  • Colleges Takes Many Paths to the Cloud

    When it comes to cloud deployments, colleges use public, private and hybrid clouds.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 11, 2012
  • University of California faces questions about its governance structure

    If something is broken, people tend to want to fix it. But when the something in question is surrounded by other complex and potentially deficient systems, as seems to be the case for the University of California, how does one even begin to figure out to fix it?

    By Brian Warmoth • May 11, 2012
  • Trustees Of All-Male College Try To Block Admission Of Women

    Deep Springs College, an all-male school north of Death Valley, plans to admit women next year for the first time in its 95-year history. But two trustees are attempting to block the change.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012
  • Of state's universities, only U of I has spouse of president on payroll

    Although the head of the Iowa Board of Regents says the duties of a university president’s spouse are equal to that of a full-time job, only one of Iowa’s three state universities has put the president’s spouse on its payroll.  ...

    By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012
  • Candace Thille talks MOOCs and machine learning

    When Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent ripples through the higher education world last week by announcing edX, a joint platform for massive online versions of their courses, many observers took it as a boon for access.

    By Brian Warmoth • May 10, 2012