Virginia Tech President Charles Steger announced plans this morning to retire from the university. He plans to remain in the job until his replacement is found by the university’s board of visitors.
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5/14/2013
In an attempt to encourage college completion, Strayer University announced a plan to reduce tuition, but only to students who are actively working toward a degree.
5/13/2013
A bill signed into law last week allowing veterans greater access to a more-affordable college education will keep Vincennes University among the top schools for military and former military personnel.
5/13/2013
Studies show that women are more likely than men to go to college, and often perform better once there. Yet despite women's educational gains, a new report suggests that colleges are not doing enough for them -- at least not at the community college level.
5/13/2013
The state of Texas funded 22 colleges to establish summer bridge programs to help underprepared students get a good start at college. The summer bridge effort began in 2007, and a study to evaluate the program at eight of the schools followed in 2012.
5/13/2013
Lawmakers appear unlikely to approve a measure this legislative session that would allow Missouri voters to decide in the fall whether to OK $600 million for construction projects for higher education — including $44.8 million for a new life and sciences center at Missouri State University.
5/13/2013
Campus bookstores report feeling an economic pinch, which they attribute to some of the same market pressures that have caused independent booksellers across the nation to struggle in recent years.
5/13/2013
Goshen College from now on will purchase all its electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power, college leaders announced Monday.
5/13/2013
A $7 million deficit at the University of Cincinnati’s largest college and a mini-mutiny against the dean have UC’s campus buzzing this spring.
5/13/2013
Academic institutions need to take steps to protect themselves against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, a new report finds. Right now, many online systems used by colleges and universities are vulnerable to hacker hijacking.
5/12/2013
The University of Texas System Board of Regents passed a motion that said maintaining the University of Texas at Brownsville's downtown location would “result in a compact urban campus and is the preferred location for the campus.”
5/12/2013
After lagging behind other Americans in education for generations, Latinos have significantly narrowed the gap, and last year they passed a milestone, with new Hispanic high school graduates more likely than their white counterparts to go directly to college, according to a new study.
5/12/2013
After scrimping, borrowing and sacrificing for years to pay for college, graduating seniors are finally preparing to celebrate. But at many California public universities, you don't just pay to get in. You pay to get out.
5/12/2013
State and local funding for public universities fell by seven percent last year, but that didn’t prevent some college presidents from getting raises.
5/12/2013
Starting next school year, Indiana high schools will have to start identifying 11th graders who are at risk of failing their senior-year graduation exams or need remedial classes before beginning college work for credit.
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