By Blaine Greteman. On college campuses across America this spring chipper tour guides will bustle high-school seniors and their parents around all the big sites: the dorms, high-tech classrooms, vast libraries, and the flashy new rec centers, with their now-standard lazy rivers and flat-screen TVs. This is closing season, when colleges try to turn “accepted” students into “deposited” ones—admissions-speak for students who have cut their first check to the university. More...

Wellesley College is joining a growing list of women's colleges that accept transgender students.
President H. Kim Bottomly and trustees' chairwoman Laura Daignault Gates said in a letter Wednesday that "Wellesley will consider for admission any applicant who lives as a woman and consistently identifies as a woman." More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Maxwell Tani. That’s essentially what three University of Arizona students said state Sen. Kelli Ward (R) told them during a private discussion over a proposed $75 million state funding cut to higher education. More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Maxwell Tani. That’s essentially what three University of Arizona students said state Sen. Kelli Ward (R) told them during a private discussion over a proposed $75 million state funding cut to higher education. More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning

By Julian L. Alssid. Without most people noticing, last week contrasted two events that, I believe, offer an alternate future for learning and higher education.
One happened in the bucolic shadows of the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia. From the picture-postcard campus of century-old Sweet Briar College -- a respected, women's liberal arts college -- came a startling announcement:
"We are closing." Out of the blue. More...

A Dark Day and a New Dawn -- The Evolution of Higher Education and Workforce Learning