Matt Zalaznick

Matt Zalaznick is the managing editor of University Business and a life-long journalist. Prior to writing for University Business, he worked in daily news all over the country, from the NYC suburbs to the Rocky Mountains, Silicon Valley and the U.S. Virgin Islands. He's also in a band.

Slideshow of undergraduate research possibilities

A culturally rich, historically black neighborhood in Pensacola, Florida, has been experiencing gentrification. To keep the legacy of the Belmont-DeVilliers community alive, a local engineer...

College students hail safe, subsidized rides

Discounted Lyft and Uber rides present a transportation alternative for students on a growing number of campuses large and small. One of the latest to...

E-sports opens athletics to new group of college students

Launching new athletic programs—a go-to strategy for driving enrollment and boosting campus enthusiasm—usually comes with some major costs. But some institutions have added a...

Pop-up higher ed courses respond to events in real time

Colleges don’t generally plan academic programs to respond to breaking news. But in the last few years, a handful of higher ed institutions have...

Higher ed student success: Web registry gives greater clarity to credentials

The development of career-oriented academic programs will, in the coming years, increasingly rely on collaboration between institutions and industry. Rio Salado College, headquartered in Tempe,...

OER revolution in higher ed

Open educational resources have grown over the last few years from one-off oddities in single courses to the basis of entire degree programs. Cutting...

Power in numbers in higher ed OER development

Considering that textbooks can account for 25 percent of a community college student’s degree, some institutions have banded together to develop more open educational...

Propelling college students to their full potential

Helping all students reach their full academic and professional potential lies at the heart of several the initiatives honored as this summer’s Models of...

Amazon brings its heft to school procurement

Administrators, faculty members and campus staff have been ordering all sorts of supplies from Amazon.com for years, but it was only recently that the...

Rankled by college rankings

Almost everybody ranks colleges these days—old stalwarts like U.S. News & World Report, influential upstarts like Washington Monthly and click-baiting websites that measure everything...

Outlook on Student Success: Blending academics and life lessons

Students, of course, have lives beyond the classroom. That’s why campus success initiatives in 2016 will spread further beyond the classroom and academic sectors,...

Texas A&M launches state’s largest-ever fundraising bid

Texas A&M University’s campaign to raise $4 billion for research, facilities and scholarships represents the largest-ever fundraising effort in a state known for going...

When colleges bounce back from the brink

Your school has been rescued—now what? How do you restore students’ and parents’ faith in your revived institution? Two colleges that have recently bounced back...

Hunger strikers oppose layoffs of Tufts janitors

A small group of Tufts University students mounted a six-day hunger strike in May, but their target wasn’t fossil fuel divestment or nuclear disarmament....

University systems sharing content, data

Four major university systems will share online courses, analytics and learning-management software through a cloud-based digital education platform called Unizin, portions of which launched...