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Sports

Football Effect? Texas A&M Raises Record $740M

Johnny Football isn’t just helping Texas A&M University on the football field.

September 16, 2013

Students

Is Miss America Really a Scholarship Contest?

Or is it just the creator of a new sexist stereotype?

September 16, 2013

Sports

UNC Considers Recruiting More Out-of-Staters at Minority Schools

North Carolina’s university system is debating whether to counter falling enrollment at six campuses that primarily serve Black and American Indian students by recruiting more out-of-state students.

September 12, 2013

Sports

Grambling Fires Head Football Coach

Grambling State fired head football coach Doug Williams on Wednesday after the Tigers lost the first two games of the season.

September 11, 2013

Home

U.S. News & World Report Reveals Best Colleges

U.S. News & World Report released its 2014 edition of the Best Colleges yesterday, which includes rankings and data of nearly 1,800 schools nationwide.

September 10, 2013

Sports

Analysis: 2012 Higher Education Enrollment Rate of Latino High School Graduates Surpassed That of Whites

For the first time, the college enrollment rate of Latino high school graduates surpassed that of White high school graduates in 2012, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center’s Hispanic Trends Project.

September 10, 2013

Students

Issues in Higher Education: Remediation and the Achievement Gap

Remediation efforts in higher education are not working to close the achievement gap.

September 8, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Analysts Warn Higher Education Headed for a Shakeout

Facing skeptical customers, declining enrollment, an antiquated financial model that is hemorrhaging money, and new kinds of low-cost competition, some U.S. universities and colleges may be phased out.

September 8, 2013

Students

University of Louisville Business Chief Facing Fraud Allegations

The executive director of a medical department at the University of Louisville wrote checks to himself from several medical practices linked to the school for amounts possibly exceeding $2 million over the last six years, an Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator said in an affidavit.

September 4, 2013

Students

Stephen Ross to Give $200M to University of Michigan

New York real estate magnate and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross plans to give $200 million to the University of Michigan for its business school and athletics programs, the largest single donation in the school’s history, officials announced Wednesday.

September 4, 2013

Students

Ohio Student Says Racist Campus Postings a ‘Joke’

An Oberlin College student acknowledged posting anti-Islam fliers and racist cards around the campus of the historically liberal Ohio university earlier this year, saying he meant them as a “joke” to provoke a reaction, according to statements he made after being detained by campus security.

August 26, 2013

Students

For-Profit Schools Under Pressure to Prove Investment in Education Pays Off

As college tuition costs rise, more students, parents and taxpayers are asking institutions to show a return on the financial investment.

August 25, 2013