Inflation, decreased school endowments and state budget cuts are causing university tuition to rise by up to 9%. As a result, most colleges are choosing to pump up their financial aid packages and scholarship programs to cushion the blow to students.
The merger between Montclair State University and Bloomfield College is waiting for six separate approvals before the deal can move forward. The schools are slated to combine by June 30 in order to save Bloomfield College from shutting down in the face of significant financial problems. Both the Murphy administration and Democratic-led Legislature support the […]
At least eight colleges and universities in Texas were evacuated or put into shelter-in-place status Thursday morning after hoax calls about active shooters. "The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) is continuously monitoring events and their impact on public safety. While we do not discuss operational specifics, DPS will continue to work with local law […]
What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning? That's the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and late last month they announced some answers. The result is a […]
A 'cybersecurity incident' has caused Lansing Community College to suspend classes, events and other activities for Thursday, March 16 and Friday, March 17. College officials announced the cancelations in a social media post Wednesday, March 15. They said the cancelations were "in response to an ongoing cybersecurity incident," but gave few other details about the problem. The […]
Utilizing publicly available data and leveraging its remaining resources, U.S. News lists Yale Law School as their top pick, despite the school leading the charge against the popular ranking website in November.
The U.S. Department of Education announced today it will stop providing federal student grant and loan payments to Florida Career College (FCC), a for-profit school whose predatory practices Republic Report helped expose in a May 2020 investigation. In a press release, Rich Cordray, head of the Department's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), said, "Federal Student Aid is holding […]
JoAnne Epps was named Temple University's acting president, the Board of Trustees announced Tuesday. She will begin serving in the role immediately. "It means so much to me to be offered this opportunity to be continue to lead this great institution," Epps said. Epps, 71, joined Temple's faculty in 1985. Epps was appointed dean of Temple […]
The last two weeks have seen the South Carolina university's leadership flip on its head. An incendiary closed-door meeting and a fiery letter from the president—which was later leaked—calling out BJU's "dysfunctional leadership" dragged the private evangelical university's community into the fray and has culminated in the chairman's resignation.
If your college or university is in Wyoming, you might be safe—or at least a little safer—from education cyberattacks that have compromised 32 million records over the last two decades.
