By Andy Thomason. By 2017, the closure rate of small colleges is likely to triple from the rate of the past decade, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service that is available to the service’s subscribers. That will amount to a “small but notable rise” in the number of institutions that will shut their doors or merge, according to the report. More...

By Andy Thomason. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates has announced the sites of the 2016 election’s three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate. More...

By Andy Thomason. The State College of Florida will no longer offer continuing contracts to new faculty members, a change strongly opposed by professors at the Bradenton college as well as its president. The Bradenton Herald reports that the college’s trustees voted to end the tenure-like system for new professors, in part, they said, so the college would be able to fire misbehaving professors more easily. More...

By Jonathan Rothwell. In 2013, President Obama used part of his State of the Union address to announce a new plan to increase transparency in higher education. As he put it, his administration created a “college scorecard that parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria—where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.” More...

By Brad Hershbein. Over the past decade, a plethora of programs have been created to prepare students for careers in technical fields. These schemes often allow high school students to earn college credits, develop relationships with possible employers, and/or receive career guidance and mentoring. More...