Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Hendrix College is expanding a scholarship program that would extend need-based aid to students from three Little Rock schools and a nonprofit, the college announced Monday. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A group of rising high school seniors stood in a circle at Rutgers University-Newark’s campus, playing an icebreaker. Not that they needed it. The group had been living on campus together for three weeks, and already felt like family. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Rachel Brill and Mary McCarthy are seniors and longtime roommates at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. This year, they share their four-bedroom campus apartment with two other female students. Also, Theo and Carl.
Theo, easygoing and unflappable, is a tawny, 103-pound, longhaired German shepherd. Carl, an energetic charm magnet, is a jet-black, 1.5-pound Netherland Dwarf rabbit. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Universities looking to increase their enrollment rates now have VisitDays, an online platform that automates the process of engaging the entire campus community in the recruitment and enrollment of new students. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A group of college presidents from across the country met at Agnes Scott College on Monday pledging an expansion of efforts to fight climate change. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Take Sweet Briar College. The small women’s school—a quaint liberal-arts college in rural Virginia—was famously slated to close up shop this year. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With increased national awareness and scrutiny on the issue of campus security, POMCO, Peace of Mind Company, introduces a new mobile personal safety device designed to alleviate the concerns of students, parents and administrators alike. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Students, parents and educators increasingly obsessed with college rankings have a new tool: the Obama administration’s College Scorecard. The new database focuses on a college’s graduation rate, graduates’ median earnings 10 years after graduation and the percentage of students paying back their college loans. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Shorya Awtar, an engineer, had an idea for a medical device that could help surgeons perform complex operations inside the body without cutting patients open — and that may be worth billions. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The Global Academic Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) announced today it has entered into an agreement with Silverchair Information Systems to migrate its extensive portfolio of journals and many of its online products to a new publishing platform powered by Silverchair’s SCM technology. More...