By Rick Seltzer. Small college presidents often feel their programs aren't valued by the labor market, but they heard otherwise from a major employer Monday. More...
12 janvier 2020
12 janvier 2020
Private Colleges Battle Disconnects
By Rick Seltzer. Private presidents gather to mull the gaps between the challenges they face, the opportunities they see, a hostile public narrative and what they see as a very different reality. More...
12 janvier 2020
Academy of Art Settles Over Affordable Housing
By Rick Seltzer. The Academy of Art University will pay about $38 million in cash so San Francisco can build affordable housing under a new agreement to resolve years-old claims that the institution illegally converted affordable housing units into student housing. More...
12 janvier 2020
Wealthy Students' Borrowing Spikes
By Rick Seltzer. A new report found that wealthy students borrowed more frequently and borrowed larger sums in recent years, outpacing borrowing increases among less well-off students. More...
12 janvier 2020
Finding New Life
By Rick Seltzer. Figuring out how to use a closed or closing college campus is a challenge -- one often falling on the same leaders who had to shut it down in the first place. More...
12 janvier 2020
Ratings Agencies Post Mixed Outlooks for Higher Education
By Rick Seltzer. Two ratings agencies offered differing opinions Tuesday on the future of the U.S. higher education sector. More...
12 janvier 2020
Group Forms to Fight Marlboro Absorption
By Rick Seltzer. About a month after Emerson College announced plans to absorb Marlboro College, a group is coming forward with an alternative effort that it says would keep Marlboro open and independent. More...
12 janvier 2020
Tufts Strikes Sackler Name From Campus
By Rick Seltzer. Tufts will remove the name of a family closely linked to opioids from its medical campus as it releases a report on decades of donations. Family's lawyer calls the decision "intellectually dishonest," but fundraising experts see needed reckoning with the past. More...
12 janvier 2020
Wayne State Issues List of Long-Lost Words to Bring Back
By Scott Jaschik. For the past 11 years, Wayne State University has at the start of the year released a list of long-lost words to bring back into current use. This year's list:
- Cachinnate -- to laugh loudly
- Coruscate -- (of light) to flash or sparkle
- Gewgaw -- a worthless, showy bauble
- Luculent -- clear in thought or expression
- Mullock -- rubbish, refuse, dirt
- Perendinate -- to procrastinate a long time, especially two days
- Redolent -- reminiscent or suggestive of, like a scent
- Seriatim -- taking one subject after another in regular order; point by point
- Somnambulant -- resembling or characteristic of a sleepwalker; sluggish
- Velleity -- a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action. More...
12 janvier 2020
Court Rejects Challenge to Texas Moving Confederate Statues
By Scott Jaschik. A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a legal challenge to the University of Texas at Austin's decision to move Confederate statues off campus, The Hill reported. The decision upheld a lower court's ruling. More...
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