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.
A new version of a bill to regulate name, image and likeness in Utah would exempt college athletes' NIL agreements submitted to public universities from the state's open records law, closing them off to any public scrutiny. HB202 requires athletes to submit any NIL contract over $600 in value to the university. The school then must […]
Murky data and secretive practices have prevented the public from understanding the true extent to which legacy admissions affect enrollment on a national scale.
In light of a successful $2.1 billion fundraising campaign, the University of Kentucky president believes the generosity is a token of confidence the community has placed in the Wildcats to uplift the commonwealth.
"I don't believe in this concept of stop-and-go: You stop high school and go into college. I believe we have to hold their hands and make sure they make it," says Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Jose Dotres.
The new strategy may have arrived in the nick of time: Over the past decade, Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) enrollment has dropped 30% and community college enrollment has decreased by 37%, according to officials.
It was a quiet week among presidents' comings and goings. A first-time female leader is beginning her career and one long-time leader is in his twilight. Plus, one president has been placed on administrative leave in the wake of an administrator's suicide.
Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, who has complained that his state's higher education "isn't working," proposed on Friday a sweeping overhaul of the state's sprawling college and university system that would reduce tuition for many students and determine funding for individual schools based in part on their performance. The plan would consolidate 10 of Pennsylvania's […]
