Paul Robinson, chairman of Purdue University's faculty senate, strode through the halls of a 10- story concrete-and-glass administrative tower.
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11/18/2012
Campus facing increasing competition from out-of-state recruiters
11/18/2012
James Madison University's building boom shows no signs of slowing down in the coming year.
11/18/2012
University of Iowa President Sally Mason transferred responsibilities away from the athletic department on Friday and labeled incidents of sexual harassment involving former academic adviser Peter Gray “avoidable.”
11/18/2012
It's been one year since UC Davis police infamously pepper-sprayed students who were camped out in protest on the campus quad, and university officials say they have learned a valuable lesson.
11/18/2012
The 2013 legislative session will mark the 10th anniversary of a decision by Texas lawmakers to deregulate college tuition, giving the authority to set tuition at public universities to the institutions.
11/18/2012
Underpaid adjuncts have no job security, don’t get benefits and say they’re treated like “wage slaves.”
11/18/2012
University of South Alabama President Gordon Moulton wants to give academic employees a 3 percent bonus in December and a 3 percent raise in October of next year, according to an email he sent out this week.
11/18/2012
Starting next fall, 10 prominent universities, including Duke, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northwestern, will form a consortium called Semester Online, offering about 30 online courses to both their students — for whom the classes will be covered by their regular tuition — and to students elsewhere who would have to apply and be accepted and pay tuition of more than $4,000 a course.
11/18/2012
As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it.
11/18/2012
Ferris State University says a constitutional amendment – struck down Thursday, Nov. 15 by a federal appellate court – banning affirmative action in college admissions gave administrators fewer tools to build a diverse student body.
11/18/2012
A year after a plane carrying two Oklahoma State University coaches, a former state senator and his wife crashed in the mountains of central Arkansas, OSU officials say they plan to propose an updated travel policy later this month.
11/18/2012
In a move to speed up contract negotiations, faculty at the 14 state-supported universities in Pennsylvania voted Friday to authorize a potential strike.
11/18/2012
This week, the American Council on Education (ACE) announced a research effort examining the academic potential of massive open online courses (MOOCs), in which it will evaluate select Coursera courses for college credit.
11/16/2012
Meet UB's "Future Shock" columnists, James Samels and James Martin, co-authors of The Sustainable University: Green Goals and New Challenges for Higher Education Leaders (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Attend their New England Tea and Book Signing Event Dec. 6 at 4:30 pm EST at Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Suite 523.
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