By Grace Bird. SUNY Geneseo graduated 35 physics majors last year -- about 30 more than the nation's average at institutions without graduate programs. More...
Proof That Colleges Adapt, and a Prod for More Change
By Grace Bird. A report from the Council of Independent Colleges shows how dozens of small private institutions have changed programs or structures -- and aims to spur consideration elsewhere. More...
Abilene Christian Bans Same-Sex Relationships for Student Employees
By Grace Bird. Abilene Christian University, a 5,000-student private college in west Texas, this month banned same-sex relationships for student employees, the Texas Tribune reported. More...
Racist Email Sent to Colorado College Students
By Grace Bird. Colorado Springs police are investigating who sent a racist email to students and employees at Colorado College, KKTV reported. More...
Viterbo Eliminates a Dozen Academic Programs
By Rick Seltzer. Viterbo University will eliminate a dozen programs following a formal sustainability review of majors with fewer than 20 enrolled students. More...
New York Budget Restores Bundy Aid
By Rick Seltzer. Boosters of private colleges in New York are cheering after the state passed a budget including funding for a long-running program providing unrestricted aid to independent colleges based on their degree productivity. More...
Tuition Grows in Importance
By Rick Seltzer. Annual report on public higher education finance shows more states relying more heavily on tuition, even in a year when appropriations rose nationally. More...
President Investigated After Anonymous Tip Alleges Plagiarism
By Rick Seltzer. The tipster identified several passages of the dissertation that contained direct quotations that were not properly attributed, the email said. Inside Higher Ed was able to check three of those cases. In each, the dissertation contains sentences that are identical or largely identical to language in other works but are not enclosed in quotation marks. More...
The Perils of Presidential Job-Hopping
By Rick Seltzer. Akron president is stepping down after he applied for job in Florida. Is the system good for anyone. More...
Tuition Hikes Hurt Diversity
By Rick Seltzer. The paper, published Friday in the journal Research in Higher Education, builds on the long-established idea that increases in tuition can depress overall college enrollment. Its findings represent a new challenge for public institutions that argue financial aid offsets the negative impacts of tuition hikes. More...