Faculty at the University of Minnesota are alarmed that fewer professors are offered tenured positions. In 2023, there were 4,823 tenured faculty members across the five University campuses, compared to 5,656 professional staff members, including lecturers. Tenure is a term that faculty and students across the campus struggle to understand. The University Board of Regents […]
How much can Arizona’s state universities charge students? There is a limit — but only on paper. The Arizona Constitution requires that instruction in the university system be “as nearly free as possible.’’ In 2003, John Kromko, then a Democratic state representative from Tucson and a student at the University of Arizona, cited that clause […]
Only five states have yet to join this popular alliance pledging to increase national postsecondary attainment rates. Can they keep up doing "more with less"?
Bracing for a $250 million budget shortfall with the sunset of a state sales tax next year, Louisiana higher education system leaders told the Board of Regents that funding cuts could have “devastating” impacts. That could mean slashed programs, layoffs and students across the state receiving less financial aid, system leaders said at a state […]
Although more “postmortem” is needed to determine the full impact of the massive delays and confusion that plagued the government’s botched rollout of its revised Free Application for Federal Student Aid last term, admissions directors at Iowa’s public universities last week recounted the ramifications for their campuses, their applicants and their returning students. “We still, […]
The longest-serving chief executive of any public university announced he will be retiring and Southern Methodist University will be looking for a new president for the first time since 1995.
University of Vermont President Suresh Garimella will be switching coasts later this fall after the Board of Regents at the University of Arizona slated him as its next president.
Community colleges must recommit to reforming remedial education to ensure K12 students affected by the pandemic won't crash out of the postsecondary track, declares a new report from FutureEd.
Louisiana higher education leaders are bracing for the possibility of major budget cuts next year, a prospect they said could be devastating after years of reduced funding for the state’s public colleges and universities.
University of Miami President Julio Frenk is switching coasts in January to take on the top job at UCLA, becoming its first Latino president. University of Washington's longtime president is sticking to her planned resignation date.
