West Virginia's institutions of higher education largely opposed campus carry. Campus leaders at big and small schools said they'll need that much time to prepare. Marshall University's enrollment is a little more than 13,000. In the Eastern Panhandle, Shepherd University has just over 3,000 students. Both schools have campus carry committees and task forces that […]
Institutions need more efficient strategies to collect key student information and use that data to deliver a more optimized student experience. One often overlooked strategy? Educational events such as college fairs, kick-off weeks, campus tours and other activities.
It behooves most colleges and universities to analyze the financial contribution of their student-athletes by sports teams. Adding or removing a team could substantially impact an institution's tuition revenue, financial aid, and instructional expenses.
Despite enrollment challenges and some rural towns' skepticism about the value of a college education, Lake Area Tech boasts a 76% three-year graduation rate and transfer rate and Walla Walla Community College helped create a booming winery industry.
Over the past three decades, the U.S. academic workforce is steadily relying more on part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty, as well as graduate student workers with independent teaching responsibilities, according to report from AAUP.
Political polarization recently led to a fiasco at Stanford University and to one Wayne State University professor getting arrested. Here are three states implementing programs that aim to champion civil discourse so voices can be heard, not silenced.
Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The abundance these days of STEM-related scholarships and high-paying STEM jobs have contributed to the humanities' years-long struggle to attract devotees, as potential historians, English teachers, […]
Advocates for community colleges defend them as the underdogs of America's higher education system, left to serve the students who need the most support but without the money required to provide it.
The eerie quiet outside and fetid bathrooms inside are signs of the turmoil roiling one of California's oldest liberal arts colleges, President Nixon's alma mater and a higher education institution rooted in its Quaker heritage of social justice and respect for diversity.
