At Purdue and other U.S. college campuses, bureaucratic growth is pitting professors against administrators and sparking complaints that tight budgets could be spent more efficiently.
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11/14/2012
As more Ohioans attend colleges and universities, there is increasing concern over the number who are not finishing, creating a credential gap that poses “serious threat to our state’s future,” according to the report released in Columbus Tuesday at the annual meeting of university and college trustees.
Fewer than half the students who begin college in Ohio graduate, meaning “the student has wasted their money and we have wasted our money,” said Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro, who convened the report.
11/14/2012
Though the flurry of attention around MOOCs may lead one to conclude that distance learning is a recent phenomenon, it actually dates back over 120 years.
11/14/2012
One week after voters approved his plan to raise taxes to protect public schools and prevent tuition increases, Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded both the University of California and California State University to postpone votes on fee hikes scheduled for this week.
11/14/2012
The number of foreign students enrolled at Missouri colleges and universities has topped 16,000.
11/14/2012
West Virginia University has purchased QAS Pro Web On Demand for Hobsons Connect and ApplyYourself.
11/14/2012
SMART Technologies announces the upcoming release of the world's first fully-integrated touch-enabled interactive projector.
11/14/2012
St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas will implement Banner by Ellucian to help support its current and expanding enrollment and instructional programs.
11/14/2012
The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) met Friday to review PASSHE's new labor proposal as the two sides continue to try and hammer out a labor contract through 2015.
11/14/2012
In a move called "innovative" by one higher-education official, the University of Toledo not only announced a freeze in academic and living costs but also added deep discounts to sweeten students' deals.
11/14/2012
Base salaries for CEOs of the nation's more than 1,100 community colleges increased a modest 4.1-6.2% over the last six years (2006-2012), according to a new study released today by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
11/13/2012
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is one of just 50 colleges and universities chosen as a lead institution for the Civic and Democratic Learning Initiative, a national effort to enhance service-learning, volunteerism and civic engagement.
11/13/2012
The president of Wheelock College writes that although affirmative action laws do not directly impact admission policies at small private institutions, she believes that this issue is important to all institutions of higher education.
11/13/2012
Six multimillion dollar building expansion and renovation projects will be before theUniversity of Michigan Board of Regents later this week.
11/13/2012
Base salaries for CEOs of the nation's more than 1,100 community collegesincreased a modest 4.1-6.2% over the last six years, according to a new study.
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