Ten years ago this month, on the day the collapse of Lehman Brothers touched off the Great Recession, I was in New York with a group of college and university presidents to discuss the critical issues facing higher education. More...
The University of New Mexico will continue struggling with its budget — enrollment is declining, and not slowly. More...
The only area of University of Missouri operations that showed a significant revenue increase during fiscal 2018 was MU Health Care, and that means every program must be as focused on where money comes from as how it is spent, the Board of Curators heard Thursday. More...
How a successful relationship between an institution and its construction partner can lead to productive collaboration. Carefully managed projects suggest vibrancy and viability to students, families and donors. More...
The beginning of another academic year brings the certainty of campus episodes illustrating what Daniel Patrick Moynihan, distinguished professor and venerated politician, called "the leakage of reality from American life." Colleges and universities are increasingly susceptible to intellectual fads and political hysteria, partly because the institutions employ so many people whose talents, such as they are, are extraneous to the institutions' core mission: scholarship. More...
It has been nearly a year since the former Daniel Webster College parcel was acquired, yet the property still remains quiet and overgrown, with city officials now urging the owner to provide basic maintenance to the campus. More...
Any discussion of projections of future enrollment declines in higher education bears some historical consideration, according to a research with the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. More...
This should send a small shiver through the spines of anyone employed in academia: the recruiting site Glassdoor has published a list of companies that no longer require a college degree — including professional heavyweights Google, Apple and Ernst & Young. More...
The advisory board guiding the viability study for a proposed North Country Community College school of applied technology will serve as a sounding board for the consulting firm investigating the idea. More...
Popular culture tells us that college "kids" are recent high school graduates, living on campus, taking art history, drinking too much on weekends, and (hopefully) graduating four years later. More...
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