Universities looking to attract more first-generation Hispanic students should be assured they don’t need to know what to study before they arrive on campus.
"We're fools if we think that the educational pipeline is going to look the same as it did when we went through school and 10, 15, 20 years from now," says Katherine Frank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
While the humanities may not be as popular as they once were, STEM students—and institutions—have much to gain from some of their timeless lessons. These colleges and universities are taking note and adapting.
In six of the 10 spots, at least one college or university was flagged for chilling faculty speech, impeding the rights of LGBTQ+ persons and a slew of other aggressions, in FIRE's latest "10 Worst Censors" list.
Despite the swiftness with which a shooting can occur, institutions have been slow to update their security systems, frustrating vendors who believe higher education leaders are letting practical campus solutions run right through their fingertips.
As we opened the new calendar year, I announced that UNCG would discontinue 20 academic programs in line with the deans’ recommendations. The reality is that we can’t be “everything, everywhere, all at once,” and we can’t pretend to be.
College leaders should be hard-pressed to understand which state institutions are ensuring their transfer students' success, considering one in five students entering public four-year institutions is a community college transfer.
Pensacola State College is offering money-back tuition guarantees for students enrolled in certain programs: welding, registered nursing and paramedics. All three fields will grow in the coming years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. PSC and all colleges in the 28-school Florida College System are offering graduates a tuition refund as a stipulation […]
Colleges and universities could take a page out of these ten schools' books, considering that 32% of undergraduate students received Pell Grants in the 2021–22 academic year, according to NCES.
