Carnegie Mellon leads the way with allergen-friendly eating
From making new friends to exploring new activities and figuring out what you’re really passionate about, college is one of the most exciting times of your life — especially at Carnegie Mellon. More...
SchoolDude debuts education operations health index
Dude Solutions, the leading provider of cloud-based operations management solutions, today unveiled its inaugural Education Operations Health Index, a bi-annual collection of unique data and survey results reporting on the state of school facilities and operations nationwide. More...
Higher ed philanthropy, more like soccer or basketball?
Most people agree that higher education is worthy of philanthropic support. In 2016, nearly half of all donations from the largest 50 donors in the United States went to colleges and universities. That same year, U.S. colleges and universities accepted $41 billion in contributions. More...
How U.S. News college rankings promote economic inequality on campus
America’s universities are getting two report cards this year. The first, from the Equality of Opportunity Project, brought the shocking revelation that many top universities, including Princeton and Yale, admit more students from the top 1 percent of earners than the bottom 60 percent combined. More...
Online learning gets better with new SaaS offering
UpAbility, a new SaaS company out of Indianapolis offering learning management system (LMS), video capture and live streaming services, is poised to be a leader in the field of online training software. More...
Here's what two big college systems think of the end of DACA
This week, President Trump finally made good on his campaign promise to end DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. This 2012 administrative program implemented by President Obama, has allowed about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children to remain in the country.
They're known as "DREAMers," after a proposed law that never passed. More...
DeVos to revamp Title IX guidance on sex assaults on college campus
Saying the Obama administration “weaponized” the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights to work against students and schools, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday said she would replace the current approach to addressing sexual misconduct on college campuses with “a workable, effective and fair system” that more explicitly takes into account the rights of the accused. More...
Campus Management partners with California Western School of Law
Campus Management today announced its new partnership with California Western School of Law to streamline and enhance recruitment and administrative processes through the power of cloud technology. More...
U.S. public universities are falling behind
For the first time, neither of the top two institutions in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which came out this week, is in the U.S. More...
The college lecture is dying. Good riddance.
Right now, this very morning, thousands of young adults in the United States are scrambling through the same minor hell. They’ve woken up to the very last in a series of half-futile phone alarms. More...
