By Greg Toppo. A former vice dean of USC’s medical school told state authorities Tuesday that he feared the school’s then dean, Carmen A. Puliafito, “could be doing drugs” while in charge of the school, and that Puliafito could one day be “found dead in a hotel room,” the Los Angeles Times reported. More...
Backlash and Boycott Over Exclusionary Conference
By Marjorie Valbrun. Anger grows over major scholarly meeting in Asian studies, organized by group based in U.S., that will hold conference in India even though Pakistanis will be banned from attending. More...
Questions on Michigan's Investment Tactics
By Marjorie Valbrun. Questions about Michigan’s investment practices were prompted by an investigation by the Detroit Free Press, which found that a large portion of the university’s nearly $11 billion endowment is invested in private equity, hedge and venture capital funds, and real estate investment firms run by top university donors and alumni investment advisers. More...
Study Shows How Working Community College Students Fared
By Marjorie Valbrun. Newly released federal data show that a large portion of students enrolled at public, two-year colleges in 2011-12 worked during their first year at those institutions. More...
New Federal Data Also Show Enrollment Declines
By Marjorie Valbrun. Undergraduate enrollment in the United States, widely measured as decreasing for the last six straight years, fell by more than half a percent from fall 2015 to fall 2016, according to newly released data from the National Center for Education Statistics. More...
A Tax on Free Campus Parking?
By Rick Seltzer. College and university business officers grapple with tax reform's ramifications on benefits like parking and transit. More...
Presidents Who Leave Liberal Arts Colleges
By Rick Seltzer. A handful of college presidents have decided to make the unusual move from a liberal arts college to a professionally oriented institution. Despite love for the liberal arts, they say the time was right -- for many reasons. More...
University of California Prepares to Cut Tuition for First Time in Almost 20 Years
By Rick Seltzer. The University of California is on the brink of eliminating an 11-year-old $60 tuition surcharge in what would be the system’s first year-over-year decrease in almost 20 years. More...
Is There a Right to Know a College Might Close?
By Rick Seltzer. After Mount Ida College closure, Massachusetts proposals grapple with whether colleges should disclose shutdown possibilities and when regulators should step in. More...
Good Time to Add a Law School? One University Says Yes
By Rick Seltzer. University of Illinois at Chicago moves to acquire nearby private law school while, to the west, the University of Iowa closes a branch campus it was given in 2015. More...