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.
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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.
5/13/2013
Embattled Chancellor of the North Dakota University System Hamid Shirvani speaks in his defense about the charges leveled against him.
5/13/2013
The writer discusses a new book that critiques how higher education has changed, and what needs to be done to save it.
5/13/2013
Hawaii Pacific University has appointed Matthew Liao-Troth as its first provost to oversee the 7,500-student campus.
5/13/2013
Emerson College announced today that Dr. Michaele Whelan has been appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing.
5/13/2013
Princeton's Assistant Vice President for Safety and Administrative Planning Treby Williams has been appointed acting executive vice president.
5/13/2013
Senior Vice President David Spalding will be leaving Dartmouth for Iowa State University to become the dean of the College of Business.
5/13/2013
Napa Valley College's board of directors unanimously selected Ronald Kraft, who has served as the college's interim president since August, as the school's new president.
5/13/2013
Many people think MOOCs are the future of higher education. But they are controversial, and debate has grown louder in recent weeks. The philosophy department at San José State wrote a letter of protest to a Harvard professor whose flagship college course became a MOOC this spring.
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