After years of working with multiple food service vendors and local restaurants, administrators at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh decided in January 2016 to bring fast-casual bakery chain Au Bon Pain to campus. The school's first experience with a national restaurant franchise, it was a 12-month process from the brainstorming phase to opening the doors […]

Nirmal P. Narvekar is the new president and CEO of Harvard's $35.7 billion endowment, the largest fund in higher ed. Narvekar, a former JPMorgan Chase & Co. derivatives trader, was also previously CEO of Columbia University's $9.6 billion fund, which returned an average 10.1 percent during his leadership from 2005 to 2015. At Harvard, he […]

Higher education historians often trace the modern growth and democratization of American higher learning to federal student financial aid – providing a system of higher education financing that has opened the doors of college and university campuses to students and families who would otherwise be unable to afford the spiraling costs of college tuition. […]

Over the last several decades, programs in Health Coaching, Health Advocacy, and Nutrition have gone from rare to a significant number of undergraduate and graduate programs of varying lengths, prerequisites, and professional focus. Duke University's Integrative Medicine offers an Integrative Health Coach Professional Training Program, which features a Foundation Course, focusing on core competencies […]