Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz, two candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, shared thoughts on higher education in the past two days. Read more...
Debt Protests Target Aid Officers
By Michael Stratford. The beer-soaked streets leading to Jackson Square in this city’s historic French Quarter bustled on Monday evening with characteristic revelry – and a short-lived, if chaotic, debate over student loan debt. Read more...
Casting a Wider Net
By Michael Stratford. When President Obama rolled out his free community college proposal earlier this year, the leaders of some historically black colleges weren’t happy about it. Read more...
Obama's Higher Ed Home Stretch
By Michael Stratford. American higher education is failing “far too many of our students,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan was scheduled to say Monday, as he calls for colleges to be held more accountable for graduating students with high-quality degrees that lead to good jobs. Read more...
Caution and Competency
By Paul Fain. In recent years the U.S. Senate has done plenty of hand-wringing over “bad actors” in higher education, many of them for-profit and online. And that tension goes back to policy debates on distance education in the 1990s. Read more...
New Push for Trustee Training
By Kellie Woodhouse. Trustees have a tremendous amount of responsibility. They’re in charge of setting the agenda of an institution, approving tuition charges and green-lighting multimillion-dollar construction projects. Read more...
Making Title IX Work
By Jake New. Speaking at the annual meeting of the International Association of College Law Enforcement Administrators here on Wednesday, Riseling offered a number of suggestions to not only help campus police better meet the requirements of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Clery Act, but to use those requirements to help inform their own investigations. Read more...
'Stabilizing' Financial Picture
By Doug Lederman. Financial sustainability is a marathon, not a sprint; a college that wants to endure has to worry about much more than getting through the next year. So it would be a mistake to read too much into reports like the ones Moody's Investors Service issued on Tuesday, which show a "stabilizing" financial picture for most colleges and universities in the 2014 fiscal year. Read more...
Everyone Pays More
By Scott Jaschik. Colleges are, on average, paying more for health benefits coverage for employees. And some of those colleges are passing some expenses on to employees.
Those are among the key findings of a survey being released today by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Read more...
Appeals Court Deals Setback to Unpaid Interns in Compensation Case
By Nick DeSantis. A federal appeals court has dealt a setback to unpaid interns who had sued a movie studio over their compensation, The New York Times reported. More...