Higher Education

The Miami Herald reports that that Florida International University, a public university in Miami, has signed a contract with Pepsi: Florida International University has reached an agreement with the Pepsi Bottling Group that will make its signature soft drink the university’s official beverage. As the university’s official beverage partner, Pepsi will also sponsor FIU’s athletic […]

With the recession more people than ever are looking to return to school. According to an article in the New York Times: The number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test, for example, rose 20 percent in October, compared with October 2008, reaching an all-time high of 60,746. And the number of Americans who […]

In other weird news from California, yesterday saw the grand opening of the new space housing Oaksterdam University, “America’s first cannabis college, founded… to provide students with the highest quality training for the cannabis industry.” According to an article on Sphere, the AOL news site: [Oakland City Council member] Rebecca Kaplan, praised the school for […]

In a piece in the Washington Post yesterday, the newspaper looked at the graduation rates of colleges with big football programs. According to the article: The University of Cincinnati Bearcats went undefeated in the regular season, and took the field at the Allstate Sugar Bowl ranked third overall in the Bowl Championship Series standings. But… […]

The editor of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance writes in the latest issue that: For years, Kiplinger’s has been advising families that one way to keep higher-education costs under control is to have their kids attend community college for a year or two and then switch to a four-year school. This year, they finally listened to us […]

Mark Greenbaum writes in the Los Angeles Times that there are too many law schools in America. According to the article: The problem can be traced to the American Bar Assn., which continues to allow unneeded new schools to open and refuses to properly regulate the schools, many of which release numbers that paint an […]

Shares of Apollo Group Inc., the company that owns the for-profit University of Phoenix, fell almost 6 percent yesterday. The downswing came after the company received a report from the U.S. Department of Education ordering the school to return federal loan money. According to a Reuters article: According to DoE’s regulations, education institutions have to […]

Yale University announced Monday that it recently received a large donation: Lei Zhang MBA ’02, GRD ’02 has pledged the largest gift ever to the Yale School of Management by a graduate of the school. Zhang’s pledge, made less than 10 years after his graduation from Yale, also represents the largest gift to date from […]

According to a piece on Southern California Public Radio, apparently California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to spend more on higher education. Or he wants the state to spend more than it currently spends on prisons: It’s a cliche state lawmakers love to apply in their railings against cuts to education, and Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t resist […]

From Inside Higher Ed comes news about trends in higher education. While this isn’t really a scientifically valid survey (the information here is culled from overhearing college presidents) some of this looks very interesting: [College presidents] noted… potentially worrisome signs. While smaller private colleges with the numbers to back it up have been boasting to […]