Higher Education

A little more state cuts for higher education at the holidays. From the Las Vegas Sun comes news that with declining revenues the governor of Nevada, Jim Gibbons, plans on making new funding cuts to state agencies: With more budget cuts anticipated, state agency heads and advocates for services are preparing to make their cases […]

While an undergraduate education is expensive, it’s is nothing compared to law school. While sometimes law schools are willing to cut students deals, in exchange for past achievement or promises of future service, one school is just bucking the trend altogether and offering law school for half price. According to an article in the New […]

The New Jersey attorney general, Anne Milgram, recently began a lawsuit involving Stevens Institute of Technology. According to a piece in the New York Times: charges are swirling over Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. The state attorney general has sued the institute and its president, Harold J. Raveché, accusing him of plundering the […]

According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, a recent survey by Yaffe & Company indicates that the heads of community colleges get paid less than the heads of four-year schools. While the headline is of the “sky blue, report says” variety; certainly one would expect the heads of two year schools—which are generally almost […]

With the latest economic downtown, the poverty cry of universities has become pretty well accepted: endowments down, layoffs, cuts in services, a decline in tenure-track jobs. The schools just can’t afford such luxuries. But most of this information comes from college administrators. But actual academics are skeptical, however. According to an article in Inside Higher […]

Many California students are now out of luck due to higher education cuts. California’s budget troubles not only make California public colleges more expensive; the cuts will also make the colleges more selective. Because of this, California community colleges now are considering offering bachelor’s degrees. From an article in the Contra Costa Times: With tens […]

The idea of colleges offering a bachelor’s degree in three years is becoming increasingly popular as a way for colleges and students to save money. But in the United Kingdom, where three year undergraduate degrees are standard, they’re trying to cut that down, too. According to an article in the Guardian: The age of the […]

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit devoted to campus free speech, is really pissed at Yale University. Apparently Yale requested that the Freshman Class Council halt production of a T-shirt that quoted a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise saying “I think of all Harvard men as sissies.” According […]

Update on Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl and his “Fair Share Tax” plan to force students to pay the equivalent of 1 percent of their tuition just for living in the Pennsylvania city: It’s not happening. The mayor gave up on the, well, inventive plan when, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed: Three of […]

Business Week has an article about potential ways to control college costs. The piece, by Michael Bassis, president of Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah, explains that: Are there instructional designs that have the capacity to lower costs and enhance the outcomes of the educational experience? Let’s return to the case of online learning. […]