By Lindsay McKenzie. The publishing giant Elsevier has announced plans to acquire Aries Systems, a company that offers publishing workflow tools for scholarly journals to manage manuscript submissions, peer review and production. More...
Blockchain Gains Currency in Higher Ed
By Lindsay McKenzie. Despite lingering skepticism about the future of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the technology behind them is becoming a focus of university teaching and research. More...
2 New England Colleges Placed on Probation
By Rick Seltzer. The accreditor for New England has placed two independent nonprofit colleges on probation, it said recently. More...
Tough Choices Ahead
By Rick Seltzer. Berkeley and UCLA might be able to maintain their quality and reputation without a major shift to the funding paradigm, a new report says. For the rest of the University of California, no easy model exists. More...
A Private University Matches Public Prices
By Rick Seltzer. Oglethorpe aims to win academically strong students by aligning tuition with their states' flagships. More...
Antidote to Med Student Debt
By Rick Seltzer. Thanks to fund-raising prowess, NYU takes an ax to medical school tuition where others have used a scalpel. But medical school costs are clearly under the microscope. More...
Stepping Back From Graduate Programs
By Rick Seltzer. Many a liberal arts institution has attempted to diversify revenue streams and student pools by opening graduate programs, but at least one in New York State moved in the opposite direction this summer. More...
New Haven Ending Programs at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
By Rick Seltzer. The University of New Haven will stop offering degree-granting academic programs at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts after the academic year closes in May 2019, it announced Tuesday, ending a partnership after five years. More...
Unexplained Turnover at Benedictine U
By Rick Seltzer. President of Roman Catholic college in Illinois suddenly departs -- just 10 months after contract extension. More...
Punting on Football Fund-Raising
By Rick Seltzer. Long-running tensions between athletics and academics are on display once again at Vanderbilt University, with charges surfacing that the athletics side is being prevented from raising money from some donors courted by university fund-raisers. More...