For Miles Community College President Ron Slinger, adding a one-credit class on soft skills to Montana's already extensive patchwork of career-based K-12 opportunities is also a way to address a key concern Montana employers have identified in the workforce. According to a 2019 survey of more than 1,000 businesses conducted by the Montana Chamber Foundation, […]
Recent scandals across multiple esteemed athletic programs illustrate that hazing is not only associated with Greek life and can derive from a systemic problem.
Harvard University inaugurated Claudine Gay as its 30th president − the first person of color and second woman to lead the Ivy League institution. Since 2018, Gay served as dean of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the university's largest and most academically diverse faculty, according to her biography page. She first joined Harvard in 2006 as a professor of […]
Rachelle Arnold, owner of Daisy Bug Delivery, explains that her concierge organization offers that "second mom" service students often need. And she takes a personal interest in them. Students can have their bed made, their laundry done, their room tidied up, and even be picked up in a car. Rachelle says her business is booming, […]
Middlebury College President Laurie Patton is helping boldly steer her institution into a new era, embedding in its blueprint of academic excellence a commitment to data literacy, environmental literacy, cross-cultural exchange and conflict transformation.
Around 1,700 students have been left in the lurch after the Art Institutes, a network of for-profit art and design colleges, announced that its eight remaining campuses across the United States would permanently close by 30 September. The Art Institutes have been plagued by mounting issues over the past decade, following a nearly $100m settlement with the […]
A California college employee who fatally stabbed his boss on campus in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said Thursday. He attacked Steven Shek Keung Chan, a retired college administrator who had returned to work as a consultant, on Aug. 19, 2019. Prosecutors said they believe Vo stabbed Chan to […]
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and conservative radio host Dennis Prager were met with protest, and the talk fed political fires about campus free speech. Turning Point USA officials did not make Kirk available to The Arizona Republic for questions. But he and Prager didn't hold back on stage while discussing free speech at […]
The college said 29 positions were immediately cut, while 12 more employees would lose their jobs after the semester, the end of the academic year or the end of 2024. College leaders cited a desire to be good stewards of students' tuition dollars by cutting operating costs and increasing efficiency, while saying the higher education […]
