By Kellie Woodhouse. Georgia Regents University is changing its name. Again.
As of Tuesday, it’s Augusta University.
The change is the second in three years at the 9,200-student public university. When Augusta State University merged with Georgia Health Sciences University in 2012, the institutions took the name Georgia Regents University. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. First-time graduate school enrollment was up 3.5 percent in 2014 from the year before, the biggest annual increase since 2009, according to a report out today from the Council of Graduate Schools. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Who needs the faculty? A new working paper by the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, a coalition of faculty unions and other academic associations, asks that question and answers resoundingly that face time with faculty members is key to student success. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term's application to historical events can get heated. But can such debates ever get a student kicked out of class. Read more...
By Ashley A. Smith. In a political climate where every single issue or policy seems to have a dividing line between Democrats and Republicans, the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program has been able to exist above the fray. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. Modern States Education Alliance, an organization initially billed as an accreditor for nontraditional providers of education, is changing its focus and taking a more direct route to increasing access to higher education, its founders say. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Florida has told Pearson that it may terminate a much scrutinized deal under which the company provides numerous services to market and manage UF Online, which was created by the Florida Legislature to offer online degrees. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration over the weekend unveiled the revamped college information website it created instead of its original plan to rate colleges, releasing a trove of new federal data about the nation’s colleges and universities. Read more...
By Michael Stratford. The federal government, starting late next year, will allow students to apply for federal student aid based on their family’s income from two years earlier instead of the immediately previous year, the White House announced Sunday. Read more...
By Josh Logue. Plenty of questions remain unanswered after the White House announced Sunday a rejiggering of when and how students apply for federal financial aid. Read more...
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