“Biden’s plan to cancel student debt hurts colleges that opt out of the federal loan program,” said Dr. Benjamin Merkle, president of New Saint Andrews College. The Idaho-based Christian liberal arts college declines to take federal student loan money. Concerning the upcoming Supreme Court hearing where Biden’s plan is being challenged, Dr. Merkle said Biden’s plan deserves to […]
Even though they are digital natives, students want to interact with instructors and administrators, be part of something outside their dorms and apartments, and feel like they have a place to go when they need help.
Dakota State University's recent partnership with the NSA and a $90 million funding boost aims to upgrade the school's longstanding tradition of placing graduates in cybersecurity jobs to forge South Dakota as the next "cyber state" defending national security.
The report surveyed over 5,000 students and almost 2,500 college instructors and found that 53% of students are having trouble retaining class material, 55% of undergraduates are struggling to stay interested in their classes, and 66% of instructors find it challenging to keep students engaged.
Richard Corcoran, selected by the school's newly conservative board of trustees, will receive a $699,000 base salary, double the pay of his predecssor, who was fired less than a month ago in a "hostile takeover."
The Aspen Institute and CCRC have invited ten community colleges to participate in a program that can reprogram their values to boost the likelihood of students landing high-paying jobs or being admitted into universities.
University of Florida leaders will join Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry for an announcement Tuesday about a planned collaboration between the university system and the city. The partnership could involve the creation of a campus in Jacksonville that would encompass the technology side of two of the city’s most dynamic economic sectors: health care and financial […]
New York State United Teachers President Andy Pallotta, United University Professions President Frederick Kowal, Professional Staff Congress President James Davis, and United College Employees of Fashion Institute of Technology President Roberta Elins will join dozens of higher education advocates from across New York at the Capitol on Tuesday, February 7 to call for a New Deal […]
Averaging the scores of for-profit college rankings from U.S. News, uniRank, and Prepler across the U.S., Yahoo News and Insider Monkey created their own list. Factoring into the rankings are faculty resources, student enrollment and retainment, school reputation, and spending per student on instruction, to name but a few.
Frustrated by low wages and new laws limiting what they can teach — and buoyed by President Joe Biden’s pro-union bent — campus workers across the country are moving with new urgency to organize. A historic strike at the University of California kicked things off in November. And the six-week standoff among 48,000 campus workers, […]
