Mississippi's prepaid college tuition plan may be underfunded by more than $100 million, auditors from a private consultant told the board that oversees it Tuesday.
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5/1/2013
A proposal requiring Texas public universities to administer a standardized test, one that has been the subject of significant national debate, appears to be stalled, but the debate over the assessment appears to be far from over.
5/1/2013
Although he is “guardedly optimistic” about budget talks in the Oklahoma Legislature, University of Oklahoma President David Boren painted a dire picture Tuesday of the state's long-term future if lawmakers don't make higher education a funding priority.
5/1/2013
As college costs here in the U.S. are breaking the bank, many savvy education shoppers are considering an international option and putting Canadian universities on their short list.
5/1/2013
For prestigious private colleges, where donations that top $100 million are increasingly common, $15 million might buy naming rights to a new building or a laboratory. But for a community college, a donation of that size is both rare and transformative.
5/1/2013
The estimated $1 trillion in student loan debt affects individuals from all walks of life. However, according to two studies, women and minorities are two groups experiencing some of the greatest repercussions of student debt. Why does it exist and what can be done?
5/1/2013
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5/1/2013
The University of Miami will incorporate Enrollment Rx as part of an enterprise-wide initiative to integrate recruitment systems across campuses.
5/1/2013
Impulse Point has introduced a new identity-based device registration solution to assist the growing need to identify, register, and track personal (BYOD) devices on the network.
5/1/2013
These days, the job of a higher-education CIO hinges as much on surviving a brutal schedule of meetings and the academic politics of the institution as it does on mastering bleeding-edge technologies.
4/30/2013
The number of students traveling abroad doubled in the past 15 years, leaving school administrators with plenty to worry about.
4/30/2013
A bill to finance construction projects at Louisiana community and technical colleges passed a Senate finance committee Monday, but leaders at local four-year universities say the legislation is harmful to other higher education institutions around the state.
4/30/2013
Higher education is caught up in a political battle that boils down to whether to extend the life of a statewide sales tax increase in order to stave off cutbacks. “We have become a pawn in a game of high-stakes poker,” says Pittsburg State University's director of community and governmental relations
4/30/2013
Many institutions with a single traditional brick and mortar campus are diversifying the methods for delivering their programs by going online, developing hybrid courses, and even establishing centers at locations off-campus.
4/30/2013
State-of-the art science buildings and laboratories at Rutgers, Montclair State and William Paterson universities and Bergen Community College are among $1.3 billion in publicly funded higher education projects announced Monday that are expected to provide an economic boost and thousands of jobs in the state over the next few years.
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