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4/14/2013
By next year, lighting up will no longer be allowed on Tulane's campus, making it the state’s first private university to go tobacco-free, Tulane officials said.
4/14/2013
Kean University President Dawood Farahi has not only weathered the storms, but gotten the strong backing of his board of trustees.
4/14/2013
Money is tight. Competition is brutal. Are some Massachusetts schools on the road to ruin?
4/14/2013
At a time when few institutions seem to be able to resist the lure of intercollegiate sports, Spelman College, will soon become the second college in the last decade to completely withdraw from the NCAA.
4/11/2013
The state will pay the college an extra $800,000, or the equivalent of a 4 percent tuition increase, on top of other inflationary increases built into the state funding formula for fiscal year 2014.
4/11/2013
University officials announced last week that the lawyer, John Wolf, had left his leadership position. Some politicians took that to mean that he had left the university entirely.
4/11/2013
After Gov. Jay Nixon called for increased performance-based funding for higher education in his State of the State address this January, a funding model doing just that will finally reach the Senate floor for debate.
4/11/2013
The university plans to use the old law building to expand other program areas and to give students more space to study, collaborate and hang out, President Robert L. Bogomolny told the Baltimore Business Journal.
4/11/2013
Several Texas A&M professors know something that generations of teachers could only hope to guess: whether students are reading their textbooks.
4/11/2013
The error likely affects almost every college employee, said Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, which represents faculty members.
4/11/2013
College faculties have grown considerably over the years, and as the AAUP notes, the ranks of the tenured and tenure-track professoriate are up 26 percent since 1975.
4/11/2013
According to a new survey of 318 executives at private sector companies and nonprofit organizations, employers look for more than someone who's specially trained in a field when considering recent college graduates for jobs.
4/10/2013
Tuition and fees at the University of Massachusetts and other campuses of higher education are set to be frozen for the coming school year under a budget unveiled Wednesday on Beacon Hill.
4/10/2013
With coaches speaking out against paying players, while others back a version of the athlete stipend proposal the NCAA membership forcefully overrode in 2012, the issue of how to compensate NCAA athletes has never been a hotter topic.
4/10/2013
Anti-abortion activists at the Johns Hopkins University who had fought to form an official club have been fully recognized, clearing the way for them to use the institution's logo and raise cash on campus.

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