Radford University has a rich history spanning well over a century, and has earned a strong reputation for its use of technology in the learning environment. More...
College towns feel pinch from rental sites like Airbnb
Time was when renting an apartment in one of this college town’s funky triple-deckers or two-family homes wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. More...
Rural Regional College growing to fill area’s needs
The world is always changing, and higher education in northern Pennsylvania is evolving in response. More...
Putting the campus store at the center of higher ed affordability
How can campus stores remain relevant as students search to purchase their learning materials as cheaply as possible? Launch and scale a program that reduces prices for students while keeping the sale of all course materials in the campus store. More...
Ohlone College pockets more than $9,000 from ‘free’ campus parking
Ohlone College has collected more than $9,000 in fees over the past three years for what’s supposed to be free Sunday parking at its Fremont campus, data from the school shows. More...
New effort underway to enroll more Calif. students tuition-free
California's community college system wants to boost the number of low-income students taking advantage of the state's free tuition option. To get the word out, the state is re-branding the program as the "Promise Grant." More...
How college students understand free speech
Here’s the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants “safe spaces,” or otherwise conflating mere words with physical assault: If speech is violence, then violence becomes a justifiable response to speech. More...
College debt far from a uniform burden
Tales of college graduates paralyzed by crippling student loan burdens are wildly exaggerated—in some corners of the country, like the West Coast. In New England, meanwhile, such horror stories are quite accurate. More...
Trump, and most black college presidents, absent from annual meeting
Every U.S. president since Jimmy Carter has pledged commitment to historically black colleges, or HBCUs.
And just about every year, HBCU leaders gather in Washington D.C., to lobby Congress and the White House. This year President Trump was not there to greet them, which was just as well because the meeting took place amid simmering frustration with the Trump administration. More...
What Ole Miss can teach universities about grappling with their pasts
Next month, students at the University of Oxford will return for their fall semester, known as the “Michaelmas” term—named after the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels—to a campus strewn with the sort of colonial- and slave-era tinder that has helped fuel the outrage and protests on university campuses across America. More...