Ending a tax deduction for interest paid on student loans. Raising taxes for more than 100,000 graduate students who receive tuition waivers. Imposing a levy on endowments at certain private colleges and universities. More...

Remember when email was an effective way to communicate with students? While texting has helped campuses improve enrollment and other key metrics, the concern for potential misuse is even greater since the mobile phone is a highly personal space. Learn best practices for carefully and strategically using texting. More...

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to consider and pass H.R. 1, the Tax Cut and Jobs Act. A similar bill is working its way through the Senate. Despite some differences between the House and Senate versions, the proposed legislation would come at great cost to students and the House bill would make it harder for graduate students, undergraduates and their families to pay for college – not just at the University of Washington, but throughout our state and the nation. More...

Etextbook publishers are making progress on shifting their businesses from print to mostly digital products. Now comes the hard part: figuring out how to reverse revenue declines when your business is built on digital course offerings that are generally much cheaper than books. More...

More than 100 educational institutions were found mentioned in the recesses of the Paradise Papers, a gigantic leaked cache of financial documents that reveal the offshore dealings of some of the wealthiest individuals and institutions on Earth. And among the upper echelon of the upper echelon are 12 schools in Massachusetts, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. More...

When Charles Murray or Milo Yiannopoulos visit a college campus, administrators don’t just worry about the effect that inflammatory speech might have on their students. They aren’t only concerned about being swept up in the higher education free speech debate, or playing host to a scandal that could taint their school’s reputation for months.
There’s also the cost — which can climb into the millions of dollars. More...

Ultimately, the spark that ignited Ursinus College’s successful moves to reduce food waste came from realizing there was too much plastic in their compost. More...

At many institutions, procurement is responsible for the second largest percentage of the annual operating budget - the cost of construction, equipment, supplies and services. This means procurement has the ability to positively impact almost every department on campus. More...

One year ago this week, our nation took a sharp turn to the right, abandoning the hope of a “post-racial” society that some saw in the election of President Barack Obama for two terms. Instead, in a stunning reversal of what we thought were long-settled national values, the United States elected a president whose first year in office has torn asunder our naive mythologies about race and racism in American society. More...

The Comptroller’s Office of Research and Education Accountability (OREA) has released a new report and supplemental documents explaining the formula used to fund Tennessee’s public colleges and universities. More...