Academic Leadership

How To Stop Starving Public Colleges And Shrinking The Middle Class (Opinion)

America is making it harder and harder for young people of modest means to attend college. But affordable public higher education is essential to preserving the middle class.

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College Credit May Cost Utah High School Students

Utah high school students and their families would have to pay for college-level credits, long offered for free, under a bill headed to the Senate floor.

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12 Central Kentucky Colleges Launch Higher Education Consortium

Presidents of 12 Central Kentucky colleges universities have formed the Bluegrass Higher Education Consortium to work to improve college readiness, work-force needs, lifelong learning and economic development opportunities in the region.

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Dead Serious: Michigan State U Offers New Course On 'Surviving The Coming Zombie Apocalypse'

You've seen the movies and TV shows, and you've read the books and graphic novels. And you've probably wondered to yourself, "How would I make it in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world?"

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Mount Mary College to become Mount Mary University

When Mount Mary College marks its 100th anniversary in fall 2013, it will officially change its name to Mount Mary University.

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Colleges In Oil Patch Face Handful Of New Challenges

As a result of enrollment growth and a spike in demand for workforce training, Nadolny tells them to park in the back or they’ll be ticketed. The oil boom has brought an influx of new challenges for Williston State College, and the other campuses in the west also are feeling the effects. The communities in western North Dakota are facing housing shortages, rising cost of living expenses and unpredictable construction costs.

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People Watch

Former University of Colorado system President Alexander E. “Sandy” Bracken has been appointed the Quigg and Virginia S. Newton Endowed Chair in Leadership at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He succeeds former CU President Hank Brown, who held the chair from 2008 to 2010. Bracken served as the 19th president of the University of Colorado in 2000 and most recently served as executive director of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado- Denver’s School of business from 2001 to 2007.

U of Northern Iowa Plans To Close Price Lab School July 1

Malcolm Price Laboratory School, a cornerstone of University of Northern Iowa’s teacher education program for more than 50 years, will close July 1, school officials said.

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US College Grads Get Older, Shift Workplace Trends

Americans 60 or older are more likely than ever to have college degrees, helping redefine work and retirement as educated baby boomers swell the senior population at rates faster than young adults earn diplomas.

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