Higher Education

Gordon Gee, America’s “best” (and most bountifully compensated) college president, wants to change tenure. Gee, the president of Ohio State, recently spoke with the Associated Press: Ohio State University President Gordon Gee says the traditional formula that rewards publishing in scholarly journals over excellence in teaching and other contributions is outdated and too often favors […]

In an update to the story of the controversial merger of HBCU colleges proposed by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Diverse Issues in Higher Education reports that it doesn’t look like a merger’s happening anytime soon: It has been “politically unfeasible.” Politicians, educators, and students and alumni and community leaders have vehemently opposed the concept of […]

Every college wants a big endowment. It can help cushion a school against financial insecurity and allow it to continue effective programs even in times when the economy isn’t doing well. The trouble is that the endowment might make a school too eager to take financial risks, too. According to an article yesterday posted on […]

More American colleges are now serving the Hispanic community. This is a growing trend and appears in some surprising states. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed: In the 1980s, the designation Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) was created by the federal government to direct funding to nonprofit colleges where at least 25 percent of the […]

There are diploma mills and then there are other things that might be characterized as much, much worse. The Times of London reports that: A university registrar offered bogus degrees in return for spanking sessions in a hotel, a court was told yesterday. He told the women that his name was Dave and that he […]

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that: A University of Kentucky graduate student has sued the university and others, claiming he was wrongfully fired from his job at the UK Chandler Medical Center because he had a handgun in his car. Michael Mitchell, who had a permit allowing him to have a concealed weapon, was working as […]

The president of Yale believes that soon Chinese universities will be the world’s top schools. From the Guardian comes news that: China’s top universities could soon rival Oxford, Cambridge and the Ivy League, the president of Yale University has warned. Richard Levin… said Chinese institutions would rank in the world’s top 10 universities in 25 […]

For years, despite the rising cost of college, the increasing burden of undergraduate debt, and the difficulty college graduates have finding professional jobs, there’s been one number that explains why college is worth it: $800,000. That’s the difference between the lifetime earnings of a high school graduate and a college graduate. But that number might […]

There’s an update to the budget problems facing public colleges in Nevada. According to Nevada Higher Education Chancellor Dan Klaich if the Legislature applies budget cuts across the Nevada state government, the system won’t have enough money to operate next year. According to an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal: [Klaich]told the system’s governing Board […]

Edward Waters College, a tiny, historically black private school in Jacksonville, Florida, recently introduced an incredibly strict confidentiality requirement on all staff. According to an article in the Jacksonville News: The Edward Waters agreement, revised this month, is mandatory and classifies all on-campus material as confidential data. That includes employee records, policy documents and even […]