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  • LSU President's Dismissal Shows Influence of Politics in University Leadership

    Ousted President's contentious relationship with lawmakers cited as a factor in his dismissal

    By Sean Griffey • May 2, 2012
  • Brown U. To Pay RI City $31.5M More To Help Budget

    University will contribute an additional $3.9 million in 2012 on top of existing $4 million annual contribution

    By Sean Griffey • May 1, 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
  • Updating the Classroom at Fresno State

    By posting lectures online prior to class, professors will shift the class-time focus to problem-solving and group work.

    By Sean Griffey • May 1, 2012
  • Law School Reduces Admissions, Says That's the Future of Legal Education

    University of California Hastings College of Law will admit 20% fewer students

    By Sean Griffey • May 1, 2012
  • Iowa Universities Adjust To Burst Of Interest In Online Learning

    Enrollment in online courses at Iowa’s three public universities increased 65 percent last five years

    By Sean Griffey • April 30, 2012
  • Louisiana State U Board Fires President John Lombardi

    Lombardi reportedly had an often contentious relationship with governor and chancellors

    By Sean Griffey • April 29, 2012
  • Transitions: Oregon's Attorney General to Lead Reed College

    BRIEF Reed College, known for attracting the free-spirited, has chosen as its next president Oregon's attorney general, John Kroger. The search committee praised Mr. Kroger, a former law professor and a federal prosecutor, for his commitment to diversity and the liberal arts. He will replace Col...

    April 29, 2012
  • Obama Issues Executive Order on Veterans Recruiting

    Executive order will require Department of Defense to set rules for recruiting at military installations and restrict use of the term "GI Bill"

    By Sean Griffey • April 27, 2012
  • Vice Dean at U. of Pennsylvania Resigns After Bogus Doctorate Is Exposed

    Vice Dean of university's Graduate School of Education had falsely claimed a doctorate from Columbia University

    By Sean Griffey • April 26, 2012
  • Kentucky Limits on Debt Issuance Hinder University Constructions

    Lawmakers in the Kentucky state legislature denied the state’s universities the authority to issue any bonds for the next two years

    By Sean Griffey • April 26, 2012
  • Veterans' Group Names 26 For-Profits It Says Exploit Its Brand to Lure Students

    A national advocacy group for student veterans that kicked out 40 chapters at for-profit colleges this month for allegedly providing misleading information to prospective students plans to release on Thursday the names of 26 chapters that remain suspended.

    By Sean Griffey • April 26, 2012
  • U Of Texas System Officials: We Took 'Immediate Action' In Investigating UTSW's Kern Wildenthal

    Wildenthal resigned Tuesday after an internal investigation of his spending.  

    By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
  • Creating Innovators: Why America's Education System Is Obsolete

    America’s last competitive advantage — its ability to innovate — is at risk as a result of the country’s lackluster education system.

    By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
  • Stanford's President Predicts the Death of the Lecture Hall

    Believes that large lecture halls are not a good learning environment and it’s not a good use of faculty's time.

    By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
  • Bringing Open Education to the Mainstream

    Large-scale open education initiatives have the potential to change the landscape of higher education by creating a learning community that spreads beyond the walls of the university

    By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
  • Online Enrollment at Community Colleges Slows

    While enrollment continued to rise, the pace fell compared to previous years

    By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
  • Colleges Ponder the Pros and Cons of Pinterest as a Marketing Tool

    Visual nature of Pinterest may make it the ideal social media platform to promote colleges

    By Sean Griffey • April 25, 2012
  • Blackboard Introduces Product to Support Massive Open Online Courses

    With the open enrollment option, any number and any type of student can register for an instructor's course, allowing the platform to be used for open teaching initiatives, community outreach or collaborative research

    By Sean Griffey • April 24, 2012
  • Cleveland State University to Deliver 100% Online Mobile Accelerated MBA

    Program was initially launched as a pilot in January with a limited number of "beta" students. Starting today, the program will be available to anyone who meets admission criteria.

    By Sean Griffey • April 24, 2012
  • ETS Will Allow GRE Takers to Select Which Scores to Report

    Move is similar to one made by the College Board with regard to the SAT in 2008

    By Sean Griffey • April 24, 2012
  • Pittsburgh Suspends Graduate Admissions to Three Programs

    Master's and doctoral programs in German, religious studies and classics are impacted

    By Sean Griffey • April 24, 2012
  • A Weighty Tweet From Towson University?

    Schools Twitter account was hijacked last week.  

    By Sean Griffey • April 23, 2012
  • How the iPad is Changing Education

    As tablets are increasingly finding their way into the classroom, ReadWriteWeb explores how they are impacting education.

    By Sean Griffey • April 23, 2012
  • Community Colleges Not Up to 21st-Century Mission, Their Own Report Says

    American Association of Community Colleges says that colleges must redesign their institutions, their mission and their students' educational experiences

    By Sean Griffey • April 21, 2012
  • Obama and Duncan Begin Push to Avoid Doubling of Student-Loan Interest Rate

    Stafford loan interest rate is set to double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, on July 1

    By Sean Griffey • April 20, 2012