Branding

Six Augusta Commission members jumped back in the fight over the name of the city’s new consolidated university, voting 6-1 on Tuesday to ask the Georgia Board of Regents to consider “any other name” besides Georgia Regents University.

Emory University's reputation as one of the nation's most respected institutions has been jeopardized after its disclosure that the school misrepresented information used for college rankings, education specialists say.

Prestigious Emory University intentionally misreported student data to rankings magazines for more than a decade, the Atlanta school disclosed Friday, adding its high-profile name to a growing list of institutions caught up in scandals over rankings pressure.

Leaders at the University System of Georgia did Tuesday what Regent University officials here hoped they wouldn't: They named a school "Georgia Regents University."

A month hardly goes by without some scandal at a North Dakota institution of higher learning appearing on the front pages of the state’s newspapers. And, after the roughing-up in the last session of the Legislature, higher education can’t afford any more scandals.

When it comes to higher education, the name "regent" is taken. Trademarked, actually.

Enrollment is growing at Hope College, but there’s at least one group of students whose attendance isn't going in the direction administrators want.

David Berst came to SMU in 1987 to issue, at the time, the toughest punishment ever meted out by the NCAA to a Division I football program, the “death penalty.”

Central Michigan Normal School and Business Institute opened Sept. 13, 1892 with 31 students in a rented building in Mount Pleasant.

State Farm is pulling its ads from Penn State football broadcasts, while General Motors is reconsidering its sponsorship deal and Wall Street is threatening to downgrade the school's credit rating, suggesting the price of the sexual abuse scandal could go well beyond the $60 million fine and other penalties imposed by the NCAA.