Academic Leadership

Pearson Higher Education today announced a major investment in nursing education with the launch of Readypoint™ Nursing. Readypoint Nursing is the first program to fully integrate learning with assessment to help ensure students are prepared not only for professional licensure but to launch their careers and practice nursing.

Dickinson State University is out of compliance with numerous policies, according to the results of a performance audit conducted by the Office of the North Dakota Auditor released Friday. It also possibly inflated grades. The report gave recommendations for improvement, but no consequences for noncompliance.

Number of possible invalid degrees rises to 771

A pending lawsuit against the University of Wisconsin System may determine whether professors must disclose their course syllabi under the state's Open Records Law or whether the material is exempt under copyright law.

Nearly 80 academic programs at the University of Northern Iowa would either be eliminated or dramatically restructured under a proposal being discussed by administrators and faculty members, information obtained by The Des Moines Register shows.

In the farthest corner of West Texas — nestled between the Franklin Mountains and the United States-Mexico border, hundreds of miles from any other public university in the state — the University of Texas at El Paso and its fortress-like buildings occupy one of the state’s most exotic campus settings.

About 18 schools in the United States and abroad will pilot the capstone program, meant to equip students with more research skills, writing, teamwork and critical thinking.

Institutions of higher education switch religious affiliations, as New York Medical College did nine months ago, so rarely that there really is no playbook to follow.

Faced with historic budget cuts, officials say they decided to cut 29 physical education classes viewed as non-essential, including triathlon training, in order to preserve core classes needed for graduation.

That "remarkably revised" calendar might include three terms of equal length, making it possible for a full-time student to earn the 120 credits needed for a bachelor's degree in less than three years, University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler said in his first State of the University address.