In light of the Northwestern scandal, collegiate sexual violence will thrive and continue challenging administrators who don't acknowledge it, treat its symptoms or accept structural change.
Higher education is an investment, and the Legislature this year approved more than $74 million in budget restorations for the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), according to NSHE's website. She says an estimated 55% of STEM and engineering students stay in the state after graduation. To get more engineers to stay in the state […]
If the results are certified, PhD students who work at Duke as teaching assistants and researchers will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South. The final vote count on Tuesday was 1,000 votes for the union to 131 against. Supporters of the union needed to win a simple majority […]
The original intent of standardized exams was to break the stranglehold that elite high schools had on elite colleges. As a recent study has shown, colleges that use standardized criteria more heavily in admissions are less likely to give preference to wealthy applicants. It is the wealthy who can more easily game the subjective criteria (essays, teacher recommendations, niche […]
U of U authorities are working to restore multiple IT outages that were reportedly caused by Utah's high humidity levels. While they are actively working to fix the issue, there is no estimated time of restoration. The outages were identified around 4 p.m. today, Aug. 22, and are affecting multiple systems and services. Some of […]
It's a move that would underscore the desperate need for more affordable campus housing as well as the lingering after-effects of the pandemic on the city's tourism and hotel industry. The hotel would open under new ownership and under a new name in April of the following year. SJSU Sophomore Lucas Robin says he nearly […]
The West Virginia United Students' Union organized separate rallies on campus. Organizers said they want to halt the university's planned reductions, seek an independent audit of its finances and reduce WVU's administrative spending. They also called for increased spending by the state in higher education, among other things. Students were encouraged to wear red in […]
Between a multitude of nuanced state laws and the NCAA's timid guidance, student-athletes face a cacophony of different regulation efforts and new recruitment tactics. Are institutions putting them first?
With infections again trending upward, some institutions are reestablishing their commitment to vaccine requirements; with one college going so far as to reinstate mask mandates.
The economic advantage of getting a college degree remains at just about an all-time high when compared with the average earnings of Americans with only a high-school diploma. In recent years, a typical college graduate earned a median wage premium of more than $30,000, or almost 75 percent more than those who had completed just […]
