Academic Leadership

With the stock ticker scrolling in the new trading room of the University of North Texas’ Business Leadership Building, the Student Investment Group got its first training session on the Bloomberg terminals Friday.

One of the nation's most competitive universities - tied for 39th place with UC Berkeley in a new ranking, and tougher to get into than Tufts - is an unlikely campus in that cutthroat category: Cal State East Bay.

UC Davis announced a major partnership today with a world-renowned Chinese genetics research institute, a move that could jump-start the Sacramento area's life-sciences industry.

Educators across Ohio will team up to ensure that more high school graduates are ready for college-level work, instead of taking remedial math and English when they arrive on campus.

Twelve Nebraska colleges and universities are creating an affiliate to a national organization that promotes service learning and civic engagement among college students.

My views on higher education are very similar to my views on medical care: we suffer from excessive cost growth driven by credentialism, third-party payment, a lack of transparency, and overreliance on inefficient public institutions. Vance Fried of Oklahoma State University has offered the definitive critique of how federal higher education policy shapes this landscape.

Business scholar Steven Maranville left a tenured appointment with the University of Houston to teach at Utah Valley University two years ago, but officials fired him after a one-year probationary period when they concluded his teaching did not suit their students.

The University of South Alabama’s Mitchell College of Business will offer the state’s first doctorate degree in business administration beginning 2013, according to school officials.

Will the university of the future be bigger — or smaller? Are college campuses still cradles of revolt — or merely marginal spectators to the Arab Spring? Should students expect to be trained for the job market — or is it more important to learn how to think?

“True or false: too many kids go to college.” That was how John Donvan, an ABC News correspondent, began a debate last week about the necessity of an undergraduate degree.