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31 août 2016

College endowments seen posting worst returns since 2009

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. U.S. college endowments are poised to take the worst slide in performance since the 2009 recession. More...
31 août 2016

These landlords are making a killing off college students

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. College students aren't famous for their tidiness, sober living, or financial prudence, to name three qualities landlords might look for in a tenant. But despite the beer-soaked carpets and general flakiness, renting off-campus apartments to undergrads is turning out to be a great business. More...
31 août 2016

Why are there so many white young American men without college degrees?

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. The country is divided any which way you look at it. Some of it is generational, some of it is cultural, and some of it is geographic.
And some of it, it turns out, is what you might call educational. More...
31 août 2016

The gig economy is making waves in education

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. According to a recent FlexJobs report, over one-third of the American workers freelance — and education is one of the top-five industries with high demand for freelance laborers. More...
31 août 2016

Wealthy universities are stingy with aid for the poorest students

University Business LogoSubmitted by Tim Goral. Call them the top 4 percent: elite private colleges and universities that together sit atop three-quarters of the higher education terrain’s endowment wealth. More...
31 août 2016

Campus carry laws are in effect

University Business LogoSubmitted by Tim Goral. Effective August 1, 2016, laws on Texas college campuses changed. Which laws? Not those regarding admissions requirements, or minimum academic achievements to graduate, or tuition rates. Rather, the new laws apply to carrying weapons on campus. More...
31 août 2016

College students go to court over sexual assault

University Business LogoSubmitted by Tim Goral. More than twenty-five years ago, alleged rapists’ names were scrawled in bathroom stalls at Brown University.
These signs of outrage accompanied campus activists’ demands to improve sexual-offense policies and training for male students. More...
31 août 2016

Talking about religion matters

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. This past winter, one of my colleagues attended a higher education conference on diversity. She was pleased to learn that the conference facilitators had asked her to lead a discussion on religious diversity at the conference. More...

31 août 2016

One size doesn’t fit all in higher education

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. We often hear stories about student loan debt topping $1 trillion, college graduates who struggle to find jobs in their chosen careers and the rising price of college. More...
31 août 2016

State department, citing security, suspends teaching program in Turkey

University Business LogoSubmitted by Stefanie Botelho. Joanna Birkner was looking forward to teaching English in Turkey on a Fulbright award this year. But last week, she received an email from a program official saying that teaching assistant placements in Turkey had been suspended for the school year. More...
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