By Jasmine Garsd. Sweet Briar College in Virginia will close its doors in May, after 114 years of teaching women at its scenic campus in western Virginia.
The school's board of directors says the school has been unable to increase revenue, and as a result the institution cannot survive. The announcement shocked students and alumnae and created a movement — Saving Sweet Briar — to keep the school open. They've asked the president and the board to step down. More...

By Noel K. Gallagher. The legislation, which is still being drafted, seeks to give graduates an incentive to work in STEM fields in Maine, filling a growing need. Read more...

By Andrew Shain. A new report suggests increasing the number of college graduates in South Carolina by boosting financial aid for lower- and middle-class students, offering rebates for graduates in high-demand fields and raising state funding to schools that hold down tuition. Read more...

By Scott H. Levine. In her March 15 Outlook commentary, "College is not in crisis," University of California President Janet Napolitano made several compelling points about higher education, including the huge disinvestment by states in public higher ed. Read more...

By Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu. Three troubling attacks on public higher education in three different states have occurred within recent weeks. All suggest that public higher education may be fast becoming politicized in ways that are particularly dangerous for our democracy. More...

By Mary Cullinane. As Chief Content Officer of a learning company, people frequently ask me: “Won’t all of your content eventually be free? After all, when technology enters the market, free is right behind it.”
Then they’ll point to something like the music industry, where annual revenues have declined more than $20 billion from their peak over a decade ago and album sales recently hit their lowest point on record. More...

By Rey Junco. Last week, the New York Times published an article about the popular anonymous social app, Yik Yak. Stories introducing a new social media platform used by young people seem to almost always engage moral panics. The Times story certainly followed this model. Their thesis was that allowing young people to post anonymously on Yik Yak leads to the most horrendous instances of harassment and abuse. More...