Higher Education

From Adventist Today a progressive Seventh-day Adventist magazine, comes news that the faculty of an Adventist-affiliated college has unanimously defended the teaching of evolution. From the article: The Faculty Senate of La Sierra University (LSU) has unanimously approved a resolution that affirmed faculty commitment to the “preservation of academic freedom with intellectual and moral integrity […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the Council of Independent Colleges are working together on a new project: Two of the nation’s largest associations of independent colleges are teaming up in an effort to identify and encourage the best ways to help more students […]

Tuition is still going up, and there’s not much parents can do now. This is almost an evergreen (does tuition ever go down?) but tuition is especially challenging this time around because now the increases are big even at state schools. In many cases parents and students don’t have other resources to help them make […]

A racial incident at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio has prompted the college president to sleep in a student dormitory. According to the Associated Press: Graffiti [at Hocking] had warned that black students would die Tuesday, as the school president sought to reassure students by camping out in the dorm where the threat was scrawled. […]

In the last decade many of America’s exclusive, and wealthy, colleges moved away from student loans. One of these schools, Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, eliminated education debt in 2008. Williams and schools like it created policies so that all students would graduate debt free. Basically the idea was that students and their families paid […]

Does sending a student to a Catholic college actually make him less Catholic? The Cardinal Newman Society, a campus organization dedicated to promoting Catholic identity on American college campus, often seems to think so. According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, the Newman Society got the idea: In part from a 2003 analysis called: […]

According to an article recently posted on the conservative Heritage Foundation Web site, online colleges are a way to make higher education more affordable. This argument, though questionable, has been made by proprietary school advocates for years. Online schools are cheaper. People who go there same money by eschewing pricey, traditional schools. Heritage takes this […]

According to President Obama’s State of the Union address last week, the president plans to change the American student loan system so that debt will be forgiven after 20 years (or 10 years for students who spend a decade in public service) and student loan payments cannot constitute more than 10 percent of a graduate’s […]

From Ohio comes news that there’s a bill in the state house to essentially eliminate the tax currently associated with Pell Grants. From the Daily Reporter: Specifically, House Bill 419 would authorize an income tax deduction for the otherwise taxable portion of a federal Pell Grant used to pay room and board for a post-secondary […]

From the Chronicle of Higher Education comes news that college endowments are at their worst level in almost 40 years. According to the article: The value of college endowments declined by an average of 23 percent from 2008 to 2009, socked by the one-two punch of record investment losses and a precipitous drop in giving, […]