Fla. state colleges decry budget cuts
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. As the House and Senate prepare to take up their budget plans next week, state college leaders and students said Thursday the proposals contain unsustainable cuts for the 28-college system. More...
Ex Libris Alma, Primo Solutions to be implemented at three Nevada libraries
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Ex Libris, a ProQuest company, is pleased to announce that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), along with the College of Southern Nevada and Nevada State College, has chosen the Ex Libris Alma library management service and the Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery platform. More...
The automated university: Bots, drones amid the dreaming spires
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. University teaching is under the microscope as institutions brace themselves for the first Teaching Excellence Framework, which will accord them gold, silver and bronze status. More...
New York to offer free tuition at public four-year colleges
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Budget negotiators struck a deal late Friday that could make New York the largest state to offer tuition-free public higher education. More...
A new look at the lasting consequences of student debt
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Recent college graduates who borrow are leaving school with an average of $34,000 in student loans. That's up from $20,000 just 10 years ago, according to a new analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. More...
Stopgap budget proposal would fund Ill. higher ed, social services
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The more than 750 million dollar plan uses money sitting in unused special state funds, directing dollars towards state colleges and universities as well as MAP grants. More...
Moving past students' 'islands of challenge' to success
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Beacon College President George Hagerty wants his students to know that their “island of challenge” does not dictate the heights they can achieve. More...
Where non-techies can get with the programming
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. When the Georgetown University Law Center offered computer programming last year, it was an experiment, a single class for about 20 students. It was filled almost instantly, and the waitlist swelled to 130. More...
Quadruplets offer colleges package deal. Harvard and Yale buy it.
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. It was Nick Wade’s idea to write about being a quadruplet. He went on a college advice website called College Confidential, and in a chat room about college admissions essays, asked whether other people thought this would be a good idea. More...
Dept. of Higher Education to cut hundreds of jobs
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Hundreds of people could lose their jobs as North Dakota's Department of Higher Education continues to make budget cuts. More...
