Four-year private colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area, where higher education is counted as an economic anchor, have already seen a significant drop in revenue trends, as they've had to sharply increase discounts and financial aid to attract and keep students on campus.
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5/8/2013
Salaries of college football coaches increase at a much higher rate than those of instructors at the same universities, a new study shows.
5/8/2013
The Holyoke Community College Board of Trustees is considering arming the college's nine full-time police officers as a way of increasing campus safety and in particular to prepare them to respond to "a shooter in the classroom" scenario.
5/8/2013
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) vetoed a bill that would have allowed guns on college campuses in the state. The legislation would have stripped the state's Board of Regents and the Montana University System of their authority to regulate firearms on public college campuses.
5/7/2013
A new company wants to bring college students to live downtown Syracuse by turning a vacant office building near Armory Square into a dormitory for 146 students.
5/7/2013
Administrators at the University of Central Arkansas say they are seeing the need to bump up tuition costs again.
5/7/2013
Private U.S. colleges, worried they could be pricing themselves out of the market after years of relentless tuition increases, are offering record financial assistance to keep classrooms full.
5/7/2013
While some employers have suggested they will cut some or most part-time employees to under 30 hours so as not to have to incur the added cost of health insurance, the University of Central Oklahoma has announced it will provide full benefits to all faculty working more than 27 hours per week.
5/7/2013
In a new report, students are giving their colleges and institutions a failing grade. We don't spend enough time asking the people who have the most skin in the game — the recent graduates of America's colleges and universities — what they think.
5/7/2013
Officials at Oklahoma's colleges and universities are working on their budgets for the upcoming fiscal year. The process includes deciding whether students will see an increase in tuition and fees in the fall.
5/7/2013
New Jersey lawmakers want to know how the state decided which proposals qualified for more than $1.3 billion in funding for construction projects at colleges and universities. At issue is whether the state violated its own laws when it proposed awarding more than $645,000 in funds for construction projects at Princeton Theological Seminary.
5/6/2013
Starting in 2014 the Department of Education will begin collecting demographic and financial information about families headed by same-sex parents to determine eligibility for and amounts of Pell Grants and federal student loans.
5/6/2013
Private nonprofit colleges are offering students tuition discounts of 45 percent, on average, in response to a changing financial environment that stems from the weak economic recovery.
5/6/2013
A group opposed to the Montana’s plans to build Missoula College on the University Golf Course have filed a lawsuit, saying donors of the land specified in 1928 that it be used only for recreational purposes.
5/6/2013
Sharing information on the go is second nature to today’s college student. That reality is pushing higher ed leaders to leverage that connectivity to build a more interactive learning environment.
