Academic Leadership

UC Davis To Start Up Entrepreneur Institute

The University of California, Davis, announced Tuesday that it is launching a new institute devoted to education, research and outreach in innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Kentucky Bucks For Brains Program Wins National Award

Kentucky's higher education Bucks for Brains program has won a national award for being a model of how states and regions create high-paying jobs through investments in science, technology and innovation.

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Rutgers Beekeeping Class Looks To Grow N.J. Colonies, Trigger Interest In State Honey Bee Industry

As the class gathered around him, state apiarist Tim Schuler knelt on the ground and carefully removed a screen from a hive filled with 50,000 honey bees.

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Cheating Continues To Be A Problem At Oklahoma's Largest Universities

Students continue to get caught cheating at Oklahoma's largest universities, but trends differ at the institutions.

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Northeastern putting down stakes across the country

Northeastern University is going south and west: It plans to open a regional campus in Charlotte, N.C., today and a similar outpost in Seattle within the year, with hopes of eventually planting flags in Austin, Minneapolis, the Silicon Valley area, and beyond.

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A Better Community Starts With Better Education (Opinion)

College isn’t worth it. That was the message from a Pew Research Center study this year that reported 57 percent of Americans think the higher education system doesn’t give students a good value for the thousands of dollars in tuition and expenses they spend.

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Higher Education Builds Growing Presence Uptown

For years, Charlotte leaders have coveted a larger footprint for higher education inside the center city.

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