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Service animal regs bite campus registration policies

Higher ed administrators with questions about service dogs on campus can find answers in new guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. Written in...

Changes on horizon for campus cards, Title IV payments

Colleges and universities using third-party providers to process students’ Title IV payments face changes aimed at giving students more choice in receiving financial aid...

Financial services providers react to DOE’s proposed debit card rule

If it’s finalized as is by Nov. 1, The Department of Education proposed rule on campus debit cards and Title IV payments will have...

Sen. McCaskill calls for an end to Clery Act

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri says the Clery Act, signed into law in 1990, has outlived its usefulness. Speaking in June to a national...

More colleges investing with impact

Fossil fuel and private prison divestment may make the biggest headlines when it comes to how colleges invest endowment funds—but it’s not actually that...

When colleges bounce back from the brink

Your school has been rescued—now what? How do you restore students’ and parents’ faith in your revived institution? Two colleges that have recently bounced back...

Social media campaigns engage donors

When it comes to fundraising, most colleges and universities surveyed (59 percent) boost their effort through social media. Also popular are social media-based days of...

From overseas to the American community college

Lone Star College has the fourth highest number of international students among U.S. two-year institutions, but the Houston-area school does not recruit abroad aggressively,...

Growing trend: Corporations providing college tuition as employee benefit

Starbucks made headlines last spring as more than just a campus hot spot when it announced a free college tuition plan for its employees....

Live videocasts hold promise for college marketers

In March, Twitter unveiled its newest acquisition, a live video streaming app called Periscope. Following closely on the heels of a rival app called...