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U.S. News makes money from some of its biggest critics: Colleges

For more than a year, U.S. News has been embroiled in another caustic dispute about the worthiness of college rankings — this time with...

Columbia joins New York consortium on artificial intelligence

Columbia University will join six other research institutions as part of a plan announced today by New York Governor Kathy Hochul to make New York State...

How much money do college and university presidents make?

The most selective schools in the U.S. don't necessarily pay their presidents the most. The president of Thomas Jefferson University was the best-paid private...

UH students demand larger role in selecting university’s next president

Calls are growing for the University of Hawaii to change how its next president will be chosen. In response, UH decision-makers have agreed to the...

Georgetown welcomes higher education financial leader, alumnus as new CFO

Starting in April, Hari Sastry will lead the university’s central financial functions, including accounting and financial reporting, budgeting and planning, procurement, and treasury services....

This community college has 1 full-time Black faculty member out of 165. Why campuses struggle with diversity

At Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, Nikia Chaney stands out. You can spot her bright pink hair from a distance. She’s also the only...

Claudine Gay’s resignation highlights the trouble with regulating academic writing

Gay is not the first head of an academic institution unseated by allegations of plagiarism: Marc Tessier-Lavigne resigned last year as Stanford University's president after an...

Colorado becomes one of the first to employ an incarcerated professor

For the two-hour class, David Carrillo, the adjunct professor teaching for Adams State University, mostly kept his hands in his pockets as he lectured...

Virginia senator’s bill would ban legacy college admissions

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia is hoping to advance bipartisan legislation in Congress this year that would make major changes in the college...

Houston universities move on from DEI offices as new Texas law takes effect

While the new law went into effect Monday, the University of Houston has been preparing for it since August. Donna Cornell, the vice chancellor...

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