By Stefanie Botelho. Colleges and universities offer tips on managing unionizing efforts on campus.The temperature around higher education unionizing efforts often runs hot. Officials are reluctant to have outside labor groups on campus or to relinquish control over important personnel decisions—including pay, benefits and other sensitive employee issues. More...
By . A delegation of Chinese educators traveled halfway around the world to tour Napa Valley College’s classes and facilities on Tuesday, with a possible eye toward steering some future students there.
The college played host to 26 principals from middle and high schools, who came from Gansu province in northwest China for a tour of Bay Area education in action. More...
By Devon Haynie. Annual report finds online enrollment shrank for the first time at for-profit institutions, but grew overall. 
By Alan Schwarz. High numbers of students are beginning college having felt depressed and overwhelmed during the previous year, according to an annual survey released on Thursday, reinforcing some experts’ concern about the emotional health of college freshmen.
By Adelia Cellini Linecker. If terms like MOOCs, nanodegrees and digital badges befuddle you, you're not alone. As tech improves and tuition soars, higher education is transforming big time.
Ryan Craig, who wrote "College Disrupted," says that schools are responding to market demand. Read More...
By Laura Pappano. What is college? To Madison Comer, a confident 6-year-old, it is a very big place. “It’s tall,” she explained, outlining the head of Tuffy, the North Carolina State mascot, with a gray crayon. “It’s like high school but it’s higher.”
By . Michael Bayne has done everything you're supposed to do to avoid taking on too much debt for college. He lives off-campus to save money on housing. He's always working at least one job — sometimes two. And he enrolled at an in-state public school, Arizona State University.
But it's not nearly enough. The $2,500 in grants Bayne received this semester covered less than half of his tuition at ASU. A decade ago, the same amount of aid would have been enough to pay his entire bill. More...
By Brittany Horn. It's a well-rehearsed mantra: Colleges need more money.
But tuitions rise and cold calls from current students asking for donations continue even as endowment funds at schools rise almost every year. More...
By Issie Lapowsky. One of the boldest proposals of President Obama’s recent State of the Union address was his $60 billion plan to make community college free. And, yes, it’s also one of the most controversial.
By Michael Melia. Widely regarded overseas as places only for children of the rich and powerful, top American universities like Yale and Harvard are increasing efforts to attract the best international students, regardless of their financial backgrounds.
With more undergraduates coming from abroad than ever, the Ivy League universities that have worked to overcome reputations for serving only children of the elite in the U.S. are trying to do the same the world over with travel, novel recruiting strategies and some help from the U.S. State Department. More...
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