Academic Leadership

At UBTech, Dan Rasmus, the author of Listening to the Future, will describe the uncertainties facing education and discuss how techniques like scenario planning can be used to navigate through an uncertain future. Session attendees will learn how to put a name on uncertainty and take control of grappling with it, and navigating through it, for themselves and for their institutions.

Western Oklahoma State College will no longer offer a type of controversial online course reportedly favored by college athletes looking for quick credits, school officials announced Wednesday.

An anti-abortion group is suing Oklahoma State University, saying university officials refused to allow them to distribute leaflets on campus.

Gov. Perry addresses affordability of education, ability to graduate on time

For many years I've been writing about how the Internet and new models of pedagogy will bring an end to the university's monopoly on higher education.

Mississippi and Maine have become the latest in a series of states to question whether school districts should be held financially responsible when students arrive at college unprepared.

A contract for beverage services at the University of Central Arkansas will bring in about $2.2 million, but some academic faculty want the money to fund academic needs — not athletics.

Our brightest low-income high schoolers are overwhelmingly unlikely to apply to our best colleges, and it's bad news for economic growth and for income equality

The results of the annual survey of college freshmen, released this week by researchers at UCLA, confirm that the fragile economy continues to weigh heavily on the minds of today’s students.

Each year since 1966, UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute has conducted a massive survey of incoming freshmen at four-year colleges, asking questions about their motivations, their plans and their political views.