The race is on for schools to acquire students from Birmingham-Southern College after the small liberal arts school announced Tuesday it will close May 31. Among the institutions that made overtures to BSC students were the University of Alabama System, which on Wednesday announced it was offering an “expedited transfer process” to BSC students. Meanwhile, Spring Hill […]

Not only could the headaches affect the number of students applying to one's institution, but they can also hurt the retention of one's first-generation students.

Roughly two dozen schools have introduced “no-loan” policies, which means they are eliminating student loans altogether from their financial aid packages. Among the schools on The Princeton Review’s “The Best 389 Colleges” list, 23 promise to meet 100% of their undergraduates’ financial need without loans. Of course, even without loans, students may still be on the hook for […]

Thanking UA President Robert Robbins for his leadership and cooperation, Arnold and Regent Fred DuVal said plans to centralize the university’s budget, as well as action taken to reduce spending late in the fall, were potentially successful steps to reverse course on 2023’s overspending—and said that widespread decentralized spending was the root cause of the […]