Rider University, along with its new dining service provider, Gourmet Dining, has partnered with Meals on Wheels of Mercer County to prepare more than 1,600 meals weekly for local residents in need. More...
A long-standing partnership between the city's two institutions of higher learning just got stronger and broader, with students the ultimate beneficiaries. More...
At New Jersey’s Rutgers University, a new honors program for undergraduates is redefining academic excellence. More...
The leader of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill marked the public university’s 225th anniversary with an apology for its role in slavery. More...
The Learning House, a leading academic program manager that offers a full suite of education services and solutions to help partners and students thrive in a competitive higher education landscape, announced today that it has extended its contract with Concordia University St. Paul (CSP). More...
For generations, two numbers have signaled whether a student could hope to get into a top college: his or her standardized test score and his or her grade-point average. More...
Harvard is defending its admissions policy in court this week. A group that opposes affirmative action has sued the school, saying it discriminates against Asian-American applicants. Beyond grades and test scores, Harvard rates applicants on personality considerations. More...
Americans are losing faith in higher education, and college leaders should look in their mirrors for the reasons. According to a recent Gallup poll, only 48 percent of the public has “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. That’s 9 percent lower than in 2015, the largest drop among all the 16 institutions – including Congress, the presidency, banks, and newspapers - surveyed over that period. More...
Virginia University of Lynchburg, the oldest institution of higher education in the city, is seeking to remove much of its campus from a historic district designation. More...
By today’s standards, the price of a college education at the time was amazingly low. A student applying to a state university that charged no tuition had total annual expenses ranging from $1,100 to $1,500, or the equivalent today of $9,460 to $12,900. By contrast, today’s state university students typically spend $30,000 per year on tuition and expenses. More...
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