Infinity Hall at the University of Florida This $15.9 million residence hall—billed as the nation's first entrepreneurial-based academic residential community—is being privately developed by Signet Development (Jacksonville, Fla.) in partnership with the university's Department of Housing and Residence Education. Its 90,000 square feet will include four floors of suites, team meeting rooms, an entertainment room, […]

Dartmouth College has launched a new campaign to combat harmful student behavior, including sexual assault and high-risk drinking. Under the "Moving Dartmouth Forward" plan, the Ivy League school will no longer serve hard alcohol (30 proof or higher) on campus and will increase penalties for underage students found in possession of hard alcohol. Also in […]

There were big-picture pieces on race relations, immigration, climate change, incarceration, veterans, gender issues and the proliferation of firearms. And there were hot-button campus issues such as sexual assaults, alcohol, college access, free speech, college cost and debt, emotionally unstable students, and abuses in sports programs. In all, college and university presidents had nearly 600 […]

Recent campus outbreaks of easily spread but preventable diseases have forced administrators across the nation to review their institutions' immunization policies. Immunization policy on potentially deadly illnesses—including measles, meningitis, rubella and mumps—has a rather dense structure that varies by state (and often, by university or system). And these policies are becoming ever more important to […]