Daniel Fromson

Once Obama’s “pay czar” takes on the bloated bonuses of Wall Street, writes David Grant in the Christian Science Monitor, he should begin prowling the halls of higher education. Grant’s recent article, based on data from the Chronicle of Higher Education and the AFL-CIO, makes a compelling case that because university endowments have dwindled due […]

The Associated Press reports that the faculty of UC-Berkeley is up in arms over the university’s continued subsidizing of college sports. Yesterday, the campus Academic Senate voted 91-68 to approve a nonbinding resolution calling for an end to campus support of the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics (DIA). According to the resolution (click here for a […]

As Jesse noted earlier today, collegiate athletics spending has been surging with the momentum of an offensive lineman, but schools with major football programs agree that rising costs cannot be sustained. According to a study released Monday by the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, most Football Bowl Subdivision university presidents believe that some kind of […]

Inside Higher Ed: As pressure has built on colleges and universities to prove their performance to increasingly questioning external audiences, many institutions have realized that they must start by better understanding their own strengths and weaknesses. That has led increasing numbers of individual institutions, public university systems (like the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities), and […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is speaking at Columbia University’s Teachers College today to draw attention to what he calls the “mediocre job” that schools of education are doing to prepare teachers for “the realities of the 21st-century classroom.” Kelly Field writes: In a prepared text of his […]

Via Reuters, StudentAid.com has announced the release of an advanced technology that will help colleges and universities provide the public with greater cost transparency via Web-based net cost calculators. 2008’s Higher Education Opportunity Act requires all Title IV-eligible institutions of higher education to provide net cost calculators on their Web sites so prospective students and […]

Inside Higher Ed reports that Kenneth C. Green, director of the Campus Computing Project, has released a study today of online education programs detailing that even though online university initiatives are exploding, many colleges have little knowledge of how to properly administer them, whether the programs are profitable, and how they stack up compared to […]

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“Who are the Millenials?” As Eric Hoover points out in his recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, this is, quite literally, a multi-million-dollar question: one that has led well-compensated consultants to spill buckets of ink for countless universities around the country, all in the interest of tailoring admissions mailings, extracurricular activities, and even […]