Oak Point University announced internally Wednesday its closing at end of the semester in three weeks — leaving employees without a job and students confused and upset. A school employee, who WGN News is keeping anonymous, said staff members are not being retained and their last day is April 19 as well. They said no […]
Forward-thinking institutional leaders should take inspiration from their faculty colleagues and embrace the backward design we more often see in syllabus writing to create an engaging, transparent and accessible process for strategic planning.
Whether by providing financial aid or direct admission, high school students are getting excited about these initiatives easing their entry into college.
Reflecting some of the most significant developments in higher education in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.
Communication breakdown was a common thread troubling leaders when discussing some of higher education's chief issues at The Presidents Dinner in Washington, D.C. last week.
Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships—oh my! Alliances can be highly individualized depending on each institution's unique set of challenges. However, these trends can help explain what's going on.
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.
Dr. D’Wayne Edwards, president of HBCU Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design, is continuing to support more Black designers to get their foot into the footwear industry. Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design has joined Designer Brands Inc., owner of DSW stores, to open JEMS by PENSOLE — one of the first Black-owned U.S. […]
“I won a scholarship from the Taco Bell Foundation. And when I submitted the check to my university, they decreased my institutional scholarship by half, they increased my federal loans, and eliminated my work study,” Lewis said. “I had to pay over $15,000 out of pocket and it gave me two choices, whether to drop […]
