The city of Newport News, Virginia, and Christopher Newport University are creating a joint task force to reexamine the destruction of a Black neighborhood to make way for the school's campus starting in the 1960s, and recommend possible redress for uprooted families. The new commission, announced Monday, will scrutinize four decades of the school's property […]
Maybe a PayPal alert or a Venmo deposit, perhaps just a check in the mail — certain UD students have seen payments from their university this month. University of Delaware has seemingly begun issuing cash reimbursements to thousands of current and former students in line with last year's $6.3 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit […]
"I don't believe in this concept of stop-and-go: You stop high school and go into college. I believe we have to hold their hands and make sure they make it," says Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres.
The new strategy may have arrived in the nick of time: Over the past decade, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment has dropped 30% and community college enrollment has decreased by 37%, according to officials.
Thanking UA President Robert Robbins for his leadership and cooperation, Arnold and Regent Fred DuVal said plans to centralize the university's budget, as well as action taken to reduce spending late in the fall, were potentially successful steps to reverse course on 2023's overspending—and said that widespread decentralized spending was the root cause of the […]
With generous donors enabling Brown University to achieve a $120 million fundraising goal, Brown plans to become need-blind for all undergraduate international students starting with the Class of 2029, which will arrive on campus in Fall 2025. Brown has sustained a need-blind admission policy for domestic undergraduates since 2003, eliminating from the admission process the […]
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who has complained that his state's higher education "isn't working," proposed on Friday a sweeping overhaul of the state's sprawling college and university system that would reduce tuition for many students and determine funding for individual schools based in part on their performance. The plan would consolidate 10 of Pennsylvania's […]
It was a quiet week among presidents' comings and goings. A first-time female leader is beginning her career and one long-time leader is in his twilight. Plus, one president has been placed on administrative leave in the wake of an administrator's suicide.
The University of Notre Dame announced on Jan. 23 that it will be launching a new academic initiative focused on studying and combating poverty. The new Poverty Initiative is supported by a $100 million gift from an alumni couple, the largest donation to an academic priority in Notre Dame's history, according to the university. In […]
Kidnapping and sexual assault survivor Elizabeth Smart is seeking funding so Smart Defense, the sexual violence prevention and self-defense program she developed, can be offered at all of Utah's state-supported colleges and universities. When older teens go to college for the first time, they receive a lot of advice from friends and family, she said. […]
