By Paul Fain. While competency-based education is spreading gradually, interest and optimism about it remain high, and experts say careful growth is best. More...
Endowment Returns Slow; Survey Offers Peek at Spending
By Rick Seltzer. Returns fell by a third in 2018 but were still positive, according to survey. Questions rise over how wealthy and poor institutions are spending diverging gains. Plus list of the largest endowments. More...
Cuts Spark Fears at Azusa Pacific
By Rick Seltzer. Cuts and talk of ending multiyear contracts at evangelical Christian university raise worries some faculty members are going to be targeted based on ideology. More...
Strength in Smaller Numbers?
By Rick Seltzer. Experts worry college closings hurt the overall ecosystem more than they help competitors. Past examples show enrollment boosts can be small after a nearby college shuts down, but some institutions can still strengthen themselves with savvy moves. More...
Alumni Try to Stomp on the Brakes
By Rick Seltzer. Organizers want to fight for the future of Hampshire and Green Mountain Colleges. They've been in touch with those who prevented Sweet Briar from closing. More...
F&M Sticks to Admissions Policies Even as Budget Cuts Loom
By Rick Seltzer. Liberal arts college has won praise for recruiting talented low-income students, but rising tuition discounting has cut into funding. More...
Art School Shakeout
By Rick Seltzer. The smallest art colleges are struggling in a fiercely competitive market. Why are they showing such signs of stress? And can larger liberal arts colleges learn from their successes and missteps. More...
University of Providence in Montana Plans Cuts
By Rick Seltzer. A dozen majors are set to be eliminated at the private Roman Catholic university, along with six minors and a graduate program. That would leave almost 30 undergraduate and graduate programs, plus concentrations, according to the Great Falls Tribune. More...
Does Paying Top Dollar for Public University Presidents Pay Off?
By Rick Seltzer. Study finds no relationship between pay for public university presidents and money brought in from state appropriations or fund-raising. More...
Library Fund-Raising Platform Acquired by ITHAKA
By Lindsay McKenzie. Reveal Digital, a platform that helps libraries crowdsource money to digitize their special collections, has been acquired by ITHAKA, the nonprofit organization behind digital library JSTOR. More...