California State University-Dominguez Hills started building on its current site in 1965, amid America’s postwar higher-education boom, and its campus looks like a lot of regional state universities:…
Read more The Backlog That Could Threaten Higher Ed’s ViabilityWhen Finlandia University announced early this month that it would shut down at the end of the academic year, the reasons the college gave echoed those of other…
Read more These 3 Colleges Are Closing. They Share Some Key Traits.Marymount University, in Virginia, plans to make a sharp turn away from the humanities, eliminating nine liberal-arts majors for undergraduate students. The move highlights tough decisions that many…
Read more 9 Humanities Majors Are On the Chopping Block at Marymount U.Last week, a governor had a strong message for public colleges in his state: Get ready for a world without Covid-relief funding. Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, a…
Read more Federal Covid Relief Is Ending. Connecticut’s Public Colleges Could Face Big Cuts.The provost of Metropolitan State University of Denver is stepping down after the institution’s Board of Trustees put on hold a plan to reduce faculty workload that he’d…
Read more A University Paused a Long-Awaited Plan to Reduce Faculty Workload. Then the Plan’s Booster Stepped Down.Net-tuition revenue — the money that institutions earn through enrollment minus any discounts and allowances provided to students — is the lifeblood of many universities. It’s the largest…
Read more Tuition Revenue Has Fallen at 61% of Colleges During the PandemicColleges are facing challenges recruiting and retaining top talent in a pandemic-fueled employees’ market. But Virginia State University this month introduced a new strategy to set it apart…
Read more A College Hopes Its Home-Buying Program Will Attract EmployeesBates College occupies a fairly rarefied perch in higher education. Around half the freshmen who attend the small private college in Maine pay the full $78,000 price tag…
Read more Why One Wealthy College Says It Needs to Cut CostsProfessors nationwide are currently immersed in an end-of-term ritual: grading. At the University of California, however, fall grades have been thrown into disarray as a strike involving teaching…
Read more ‘It’s a Mess’: Grades Are Due Soon, and U. of California Professors Are StrugglingIn 2017 the University of Wisconsin system merged the operations of each of its 13 community colleges with one of seven of its public universities. The move was…
Read more In Wisconsin, a Merger Can’t Save a Community CollegeBrett A. Sokolow, one of the nation’s most visible higher-education consultants and the president of the Association of Title IX Administrators, is being sued by a former executive…
Read more Prominent Higher-Ed Consultant Committed Financial Fraud, Lawsuit SaysThis list covers gifts since 1967. Last updated on October 20, 2022. Supplements to earlier gifts are counted separately. Value of gifts is based on information from institutions…
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