On April 22, College Republican National Committee chair Alex Smith appeared on a Fox News program to launch the #MyLiberalCampus hashtag campaign. In the same segment, an Eastern Connecticut State University student shared an audio recording of his creative writing professor saying that a Republican Senate win in 2014 would result in college closures, and […]

Center for Communications and Creative Media (CCM) Champlain College (Vt.) Planned occupancy: August 2015 Design: ColinLindberg Architects (Burlington, Vt.) The $24.5 million, 75,000-square-foot project is a renovation and expansion of the Hauke Center and Alumni Auditorium. The facility will be the new academic home for CCM programs and allow all business faculty and programs to […]

A single transformational gift can spark unprecedented momentum and result in record-shattering donations to a college or university—as officials at Baylor University in Texas know well. In early 2012, alumnus Drayton McLane Jr. and his family kicked off donor support for an ambitious $260 million on-campus football stadium. At the time it was the largest […]

An official University of Kentucky hashtag, #seeblue grew out of a student recruitment campaign tagline launched in 2006. The campaign, like a first-place blue ribbon, “celebrates our athletic successes and elevates our academic achievements,” says Marketing Specialist Katy Bennett, who manages social media efforts for enrollment management at UK. “Eight years later, ‘see blue’ is […]

REL 397D: From Revelation to “The Walking Dead”: Apocalypse Then and Now Central Michigan University Taught by Kelly Murphy, a philosophy and religion faculty member “Zombies! Movies, television and literature—everybody is talking about the zombie apocalypse. Yet visions of the end of the world aren’t new. [This course] will explore and compare ancient and contemporary […]

Breaking Down “Breaking Bad” University at Buffalo Taught by SUNY Distinguished Professor and James Agee Professor of American Culture Bruce Jackson, also a filmmaker who served, in 1966, as a senior consultant on President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Crime Commission Here’s how the course is described: “ ’Breaking Bad’ was one of the most spectacular narrative […]

Public Safety Institute Eastern Florida State College, Melbourne campus Planned occupancy: February 2015 Design: BRPH (Melbourne, Fla.) The $13.2 million, 66,500- square-foot facility—featuring a mock jail cell and mock courtroom—will provide training for law enforcement officers, corrections officers, firefighters and others in public safety roles. School officials are seeking funding for three additional buildings for […]

California has been experimenting with charging higher tuition rates for high-demand courses offered during the winter and summer. The accompanying infographic breaks down what students are paying.