By Rick Seltzer. Scrutiny keeps mounting on remaining officials, as the Board of Trustees faces extreme pressure over its handling of the situation and reporters dig anew into sexual assault and violence claims involving the university’s best-known athletic programs. A dean at the university even took the unusual step of issuing his own statement ripping leaders’ response to the situation. More...
23 février 2018
Trustees Take Heat
Grinnell's Gun Connection
By Rick Seltzer. Donation from NRA president helped prompt college to change gift policy, raising questions: If you take someone's money, are you endorsing them? What if he boasts of getting professors "giddy" about shooting guns. More...
For College Presidents, Is 70 the New 50?
By Rick Seltzer. Administrators in their 60s and 70s keep snagging prestigious university presidencies. Some see a roadblock rising in front of a new generation of more diverse leaders, while others believe boards are valuing experience and wisdom. More...
Fault Lines on Display
By Rick Seltzer. Yes, there are the stalwart tensions: liberal arts versus job training, free speech versus inclusive campuses, public institutions versus privates, colleges versus regulation. Then there are the less obvious, yet still very real divides: educating adult students versus traditional 18- to 22-year-olds, giving colleges more public funding versus demanding they control costs. More...
Rider Plans to Sell Westminster to Chinese Company
By Rick Seltzer. Beijing Kaiwen Education Technology Co. and Rider have finalized a nonbinding term sheet, the university said today. The sale would transfer Westminster Choir College, Westminster Conservatory of Music and Westminster Continuing Education to a company based in China that owns two K-12 international schools in Beijing called the Kaiwen Academies. More...
UW Madison Unveils Free Tuition Program
By Rick Seltzer. The University of Wisconsin Madison on Thursday announced a free tuition plan for many in-state students that will start in the fall, the latest development in the spread of free public college. More...
Giving to Colleges Rises by 6.3%
By Rick Seltzer. Alumni donors help push charitable totals to $43.6 billion in 2017.
Colleges and universities raised a total of $43.6 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, according to results from the latest version of the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey from the Council for Aid to Education, which is being released today. The fund-raising total is up 6.3 percent from 2016 -- 3.7 percent after adjusting for inflation. More...
More Evidence of a Drop in International Grad School Enrollment
By Elizabeth Redden. Council of Graduate Schools finds 1 percent decline in new international students and 3 percent decline in international applications. The dips were concentrated in master's programs and at less research-intensive universities. More...
A Year of Travel Bans
By Elizabeth Redden. Visa data suggest decreases in the number of individuals from countries affected by the travel ban coming to the U.S. as students or for short-term business travel, a category that includes travel related to academic conferences. More...
Canceling Plans for a China Campus
By Elizabeth Redden. Dutch university calls off ambitious branch campus in China amid both practical objections to the campus plans and principled concerns about academic freedom. More...
