Anti-abortion activists at the Johns Hopkins University who had fought to form an official club have been fully recognized, clearing the way for them to use the institution's logo and raise cash on campus.
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4/10/2013
San Jose State University's test results are in: Online education technology appears to improve pass rates in real-world college courses.
4/10/2013
As if Rutgers University President Robert Barchi did not have enough to handle with the fallout from the basketball scandal, he is also facing a growing revolt on the school’s Newark campus.
4/10/2013
State funding for higher education in Louisiana should be determined by college performance, according to a bill approved by the Senate Education Committee Wednesday.
4/10/2013
President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed shifting federal student loans to market-based rates rather than the current system in which interest rates are fixed by law and subject to congressional whim.
4/10/2013
Janene Culumber, Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research, has recently been appointed to the University of South Florida Federal Credit Union (USF FCU) Supervisory Committee. She is the fifth member of the committee and was selected due to her extensive financial background, as well as her diverse insight.
4/10/2013
Steve Foucart, interim chief financial officer at Missouri State University for the past year, was named permanent CFO at the university. He begins his duties April 1.
4/10/2013
Despite its emotional appeal, college basketball is a business. You can’t watch it without seeing dollar signs everywhere. And like any successful business, schools’ and the NCAA’s decisions follow those dollar signs.
4/10/2013
As chairmen of the Boards of Higher Education and the University of Massachusetts, we know that keeping the “public” in public higher education is more than a slogan. It is an urgent and essential proposition in a state that lives and dies by its brainpower. By 2018, Massachusetts will lead the nation in the number of jobs—70 percent—requiring a college education. Where will these skilled workers needed for industry sectors such as health care, IT, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing come from?
4/10/2013
The state’s higher education commissioner, Teresa Lubbers, recently sent a condescending statement about college completion rates to media outlets around Indiana. The statement, motivated by House Bill 1348, which would link colleges’ state funding to students’ graduation rates and increase the number of credit hours required for students receiving state aid, makes Lubbers sound out-of-touch with students’ lives.
4/10/2013
Many of the more than $50 million in construction and renovation projects at McNeese State University are set to be open before the fall semester begins.
4/10/2013
Temple University has tapped Hill International to provide construction management services in connection with its new $180 million on-campus research library building. The three-and-a-half-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of approximately $5 million.
4/10/2013
Bank of America and Khan Academy today announced a financial education collaboration that will provide both bank customers and non-customers alike free, self-paced, easy-to-understand resources to develop better money habits.
4/10/2013
Budgeting is inherently political, and too often short-term goals overrun long-term institutional interest. By presenting the many layers and budgeting models with a clear, comparative framework, author Larry Goldstein demonstrates the organic link between planning and budgeting, making it crystal clear that budgets and plans represent two sides of the same coin.
4/10/2013
The winds of change are blowing, suggesting a re-examination of higher education. It must begin by acknowledging the revolution changing the very nature of education. No longer are yesterday’s instruction methods, on-campus residential or curriculum requirements necessary or even desirable.
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