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The longest-serving university president in the country, Norman Francis of Xavier University of Louisiana, will retire after the 2014-15 academic year, nearly 47 years after he took office. Francis, 83, […]
West Virginia is the latest state to encourage college students to take 15 credits or more every semester so they can graduate on time. Sponsored by the nonprofit Complete College […]
Elizabeth Garrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, has been named the first female and 13th president of Cornell University. Garrett will […]
Mercer University Bears football fans who enter the Macon, Ga., campus through the Stadium Drive entrance now pass the school’s new fountain and surrounding rain garden. The garden, which is […]
Back in September, the Crough Center at The Catholic University of America (D.C.) became the first building in the world to be LEED certified by students as part of a […]
W. Kent Fuchs, provost of Cornell University, has been named president of the University of Florida. Fuchs developed Cornell’s strategic plan for achieving academic preeminence as one of the world’s […]
The order: large pizza, extra green. To increase composting efforts on campus, North Carolina State University has been focusing on the proper disposal of a popular item used by students: […]
The number of Americans age 18 to 21, the traditional college age, has decreased by nearly 700,000 since 2011—from 18.1 to 17.4 million—according to research from the University of Virginia. […]
Timothy L. Killeen, vice chancellor for research and president of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, will become the 20th president of the University of Illinois […]
University Business is proud to announce this year’s Readers’ Choice Top Products. College and university leaders from across the country have nominated the products they are using to operate their […]
Robert L. Caret has been named the next chancellor of the University System of Maryland. On July 1, Caret will succeed William E. Kirwan, who will retire after having held […]
With a design to do things their own way, Generation Z, or people ages 16 to 19, could change higher ed. According to the “Portrait of Generation Z” report released […]
At seven stories tall and 247,000 square feet, the Science Education and Research Center at Temple University in Philadelphia is one of the largest buildings devoted exclusively to scientific research […]
All offices involved in student success are now, for the first time, housed together in the new 230,000-square-foot University Crossing student center. The building also links the South, North and […]
Valerie Smith, current dean of the college at Princeton University, has been named the 15th president of Swarthmore College (Pa.). Smith has been the senior officer responsible for Princeton’s undergraduate […]
From dealing with an increase in student housing to managing off-campus student conduct, Colorado State University and the city of Fort Collins have a more than decade-long partnership that’s become […]
The University of Vermont allows its students to identify their own gender around campus, even if it’s no gender at all. Though the policy has existed for nearly five years, […]
University of Nebraska has selected Hank M. Bounds, Mississippi’s commissioner of higher education, as the system’s seventh president. He’ll replace interim President James Linder. During Bounds’ two-year tenure as higher […]
Dartmouth College has launched a new campaign to combat harmful student behavior, including sexual assault and high-risk drinking. Under the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan, the Ivy League school will no […]
Partnerships between eight Los Angeles-area community colleges, 16 high schools and more than 100 employers launched in March to open tech career pathways to students and to strengthen the region’s […]
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