Washington Monthly's 2023 National University Rankings prioritizes student outcomes of Pell recipients, social mobility and opportunities for public service.
It's no secret that language study enrollment has been declining for decades—a result of translation software that makes communication easy and the growing worship of U.S. students at the vocational altar of STEM. "Language programs are often the first to go" amid budget cuts, said Nancy Tittler, who has taught Russian at Binghamton University in New […]
Social media is more than just creating content; each post is an opportunity to reinforce your institution's unique identity and deepen your relationship with current and prospective students.
Institutions with fewer than 1,000 students are blending programs to strengthen their students' workforce readiness and circumvent roadblocks to meet the nation's healthcare shortage.
The trends at Mines and CU Boulder paint a fuzzy picture of whether banning legacy admissions elsewhere would increase campus diversity or provide more opportunity for students from marginalized backgrounds. Complicating the picture: Colorado public universities changed several other policies at the same time, including making test scores such as the SAT and ACT exams […]
On the first day of the new semester, tens of thousands of students, faculty, staff and administrators struggled to access their university accounts, class schedules, email, and, even send selfies to their parents, eager to share the photos and Wolverine pride on Facebook. The disruption — at the university's Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn campuses — is […]
There was considerable reshuffling of this year's top 25 compared to the 2022 rankings. Harvard, which was sixth last year, replaced Stanford in the top spot; the University of Florida, the University of Michigan, Vanderbilt University, and Florida International University moved into the group; while Dartmouth, National Louis University, and the California Institute of Technology […]
Political interference and declining enrollment, two of higher education's most formidable trends, have already begun to impact several colleges and universities this Fall—and at one major university system, the two are coalescing.
New College of Florida's ambitious conservative makeover has created a chaotic start to the fall semester, pushing students into off-campus hotels and sparking a faculty exodus.
