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Community colleges strengthening tech career paths

Partnerships between eight Los Angeles-area community colleges, 16 high schools and more than 100 employers launched in March to open tech career pathways to...

Campuses combat Yik Yak with positivity

Yik Yak poses a danger to higher ed communities, but few institutions aggressively track its traffic or have tried to banish the anonymous social...

Growth in giving expected in higher education

Anticipating and planning future giving to nonprofits has been difficult, with scant reliable resources to help understand the outlook. But thanks to a new report...

Documentary highlights survivors’ search for justice

A new documentary is sparking calls for reform on campuses across the country for humanizing a topic that is too often conveyed in the...

Adjuncts act for awareness and change

Faculty and students who demonstrated during the first National Adjunct Walkout Day on Feb. 25 aimed to raise awareness about the working conditions faced...

Suspects’ race dropped from some campus crime alerts

Race has been eliminated from some suspect descriptions included in crime alerts sent out by two major public universities. University of Maryland and the University...

National spotlight on campus gender accommodations

The University of Vermont allows its students to identify their own gender around campus, even if it’s no gender at all. Though the policy has...

Community colleges moving further into baccalaureate territory

Fifteen California community colleges received initial approval in January to offer four-year degrees in a limited number of specialties as soon as next year. If...

Campus groundbreakings: Infinity Hall at the University of Florida

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...

Ivies change alcohol policies to curb dangerous behavior

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...