Arkansas cafe, college go on but shine dimmer after 2 leaders' guilty pleas
Two longstanding family establishments might outlast the public corruption scandal that brought convictions of their current or former leaders. More...
Effort to support postsecondary education in prison will be housed at MIT
The MIT Educational Justice Institute will lead a consortium to support expanding access to postsecondary education to people currently and formerly in prison statewide, fueled by a grant by the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Other member schools include Boston University, Emerson College, Mt. Wachusett Community College, and Tufts University. More...
Elmira College will lower tuition costs
Starting with the 2019-2020 academic year, Elmira College will reset its tuition and fees from the current $41,900 to $35,400 for all new and returning full-time undergraduate students, a 15 percent decrease. More...
Amazon, Columbus State teaming up to offer cloud-computing courses
A new partnership between Columbus State Community College and Amazon Web Services is aiming to get more heads in the cloud. More...
Temple rankings scandal spotlights M.B.A. grads’ debt
When Temple University said in July that its business school had misreported student data for U.S. News & World Report’s annual M.B.A. rankings, the school disclosed another troubling error: It had understated the debt load its typical business student carried after graduation. More...
Silicon Valley is getting so pricey a university is pleading with professors to house students
Last week, the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) emailed about 6,000 faculty members asking them to consider housing “several hundred students without housing guarantees on the waiting list for housing.” Rental properties in the beachside town are scarce, and the university admitted about 7,000 students this year, up from 5,300 last year, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel. More...
