Higher ed AV and IT leaders are gathering at UBTech (Orlando, June 12-14) to share best practices for new technology implementations.
UBTech provides the premier...
Recent regulations from the Department of Education improve protection for student borrowers targeted by misleading or predatory practices, and establish a clear path for...
College and universities must face a harsh reality: employer expectations of their graduates are changing. As the world becomes more complex, so do employer...
A bipartisan bill intended to improve college access and graduation rates would impose college-loan program penalties on institutions that perform poorly in these areas.
The...
The Florida Institute of Technology, which serves 16,000 students on main, satellite and online campuses, boosted its global reach with the creation of the...
According to a recent survey of auxiliary directors conducted by the National Association of College Stores, we know that the top reason (41 percent)...
Higher education facility managers are under pressure to reduce operating expenses. This is part of a national trend for all non-academic departments to reduce...
Can gender-specific campaigns boost fundraising?
Female graduates receive fewer solicitations for donations, and they give at a lower rate than do their male counterparts, according...
Although their leaders might claim otherwise, ratings by U.S. News, Princeton Review and others are of outsized importance to universities today. But what about...
As highly visible institutions with perceived “deep pockets,” colleges and universities are targets for lawsuits arising from injuries and property damage only tenuously tied...
To academic librarians, the serials crisis—the budget squeeze caused by the rising cost of subscriptions to scholarly journals—is old news.
Library spending on serials rose...
Five years ago, a researcher in Kazakhstan frustrated at the inaccessibility and cost of so many scholarly journals launched Sci-Hub, a website that today...
“Don’t just believe in UBTech, believe in something higher—your pursuit of education excellence.” And with those words, University Business Group Publisher Matt Kinnaman kicked off...
The Payden Academic Center—the first new academic building added to Trinity’s historic Washington, D.C. campus in more than half a century, provides much needed instructional...
Claire Sterk is the new president of Emory University in Atlanta, effective September 1.
Currently provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, Sterk’s long-range...
