Academic Leadership

Sports-writing colleague Kirk Bohls and I wrote an article for today’s paper coming off an interview with William Powers Jr., president of the University of Texas. We focus on his views about the turmoil in the Big 12 athletic conference.

Zane State is among dozens of public colleges and universities across the northeastern shale states that are moving to add new staff, academic majors or job-training courses in fields related to natural gas.

Over the last decade, universities spurred by dreams of global cachet - and, sometimes, by foreign governments eager to underwrite them - built or rented whole campuses and offered Western-style education abroad. But now some schools are running out of cash as they struggle to attract enough students and develop a viable business model.

Mayor Frank Jackson starts effort to get more Cleveland students into college.

A Ball State University program that offers degrees in residential property management has received a $1 million donation from a Seattle apartment company.

Eighteen campuses were awarded a combined $2.5 million in Performance Incentive Fund grants, including six area institutions that will receive a combined $931,152.

A new report reveals many college students are not completing their degrees and certificates, despite enrollment rates rising for decades.

Parked on the campus of Bishop State Community College, the large trailer on wheels has been converted into a training site for high-tech occupations in the maritime, aviation, manufacturing, chemical and automotive industries.

The grant will fund curriculum development, personnel, equipment, supplies and other program development related expenses for the Unmanned Aerial Systems Maintenance Training Center. The very first UAS maintenance training class began in August 2011.

An animal rights group has asked the federal government to investigate Princeton University's treatment of animals in the Ivy League school's research labs.