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App helps students find empty study space

Students at Bryant University, like collegians at many schools, often had trouble finding quiet study space. Until recently, they would roam the hallways searching...

Activity heats up in student information system market

A potentially positive higher ed economic indicator is that more institutions purchased student information systems in 2013 than had done so in any year...

Will Title IX crackdown make students safer?

The controversy over campus officials’ handling of sexual assault complaints may have reached a tipping point in May when the U.S. Department of Education’s...

Study questions SAT’s admissions value

There is no significant difference in the success rates of students who submit standardized test scores to colleges and those who don’t. That’s the...

ESL staff learn, students teach

In Project Bridge—what may be a first-of-its-kind program—student volunteers at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. are giving English lessons to catering and facilities...

Lawmakers pitch ‘pay it forward’ model to ease Michigan tuition

Michigan legislators have introduced a plan that would allow in-state college-bound students to attend college for free and then, as graduates, pay a percentage...

Study debunks community college completion myths

Dozens of reports written over the last four decades have created the generally accepted theory that community college students who transfer to universities graduate...

Required: On-campus housing, all four years

Next fall, Susquehanna University will begin enforcing a long-standing policy requiring most students to live on campus all four years, officials at the Pennsylvania...

Infographic: 2015 state budgets

After years of budget cuts, some states are finally putting money back into higher education for FY2015. 

Digital donations hit higher education

The University of Puget Sound in February became the first higher ed institution to accept a gift of digital currency, when alumnus Nicolas Cary...