The Community College of Rhode Island and the University of Rhode Island announced a new, fully remote registered nurse to Bachelor of Science program.

New research shows that stopping out lengthens the path to a credential—and that the burden falls unevenly across racial and income groups.

Every outcome in the U.S. News rankings seemed to be good news this year according to a wave of press releases that touted how well colleges performed—even in cases where they slipped.

It’s easy to merely believe sexual assault is wrong, balking at the horror of the news from Cornell. But actual change requires refusing to treat misogyny, coercion, or predatory conduct as simply par...

Although Gandhi is best known for expelling the British from India and inspiring the likes of King and Mandela, he also wrote a lot about the behavior of good business leaders.

The Baltimore HBCU has expanded degree-completion pathways, flexible programs and financial support for students returning to college after time away.

The college used climate bonds to finance a geothermal heating and cooling system on its campus.

It's a difficult job market for new graduates, especially in fields like software development where artificial intelligence is shouldering more of the work.

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

Princeton’s Annual Giving campaign raised $79.6 million in 2025–26, its second-highest total ever, even as alumni participation continued to decline amid broader University budget uncertainty.

Seven practical steps to landing your first nonprofit board seat, from finding the right organization to interviewing well and getting selected.

Any significant change always inspires fierce resistance and we need to overcome that resistance to bring change about.

Experiments around four-day workweeks are gaining traction, with the latest push in Maryland. It signals a shift in how some view the traditional work week.

The University of California, San Francisco is the latest institution to be targeted by the Trump administration over such allegations.

Eleven members of the Center for Intellectual Freedom’s Advisory Council stepped down this week. It’s the latest birth pang for such entities, which are created by Republican lawmakers and boards at p...

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Three current and former Harvard researchers are heading north to Canadian universities as part of a sweeping $1.21 billion government effort to recruit top academic talent, with two citing instabilit...

This year marks the 42nd edition of the report, which evaluates about 1,700 institutions, and it arrives during a tumultuous time for many of them.

Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.

Just because a meeting goes well doesn’t mean that the content was translated properly by every manager in the chain. Some in your team may…

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

As it becomes increasingly evident that getting a student to visit campus is one of the best ways to convince them to enroll, colleges are overhauling their tours.

In all, Canada has poached 64 leading researchers globally to join the staff at nearly two dozen universities.

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The 2026 High School Benchmarks report shows modest national progress in college persistence, underscoring both encouraging momentum and the work still needed to close equity gaps.

The enrollment growth has been accompanied by growing pains, leaders say, as they figure out how to house, feed and teach more students.

The Peter Principle - employees "rise to their level of incompetence" - was written as satire. A new study finds evidence it's quite real in sales organizations.

After pausing his $100 million gift following Oct. 7, Jewish billionaire Stuart Zimmer has agreed to resume funding it.

The change is mission-driven, according to the seminary’s president. It comes as a federal earnings test turns up the heat on theological colleges, which train their students to enter largely low-payi...

Federal investigations into colleges’ diversity efforts are prompting settlements, backlash and growing concern among students, faculty and alumni about the future of campus inclusion.

Demographic cliff hits colleges unevenly in 2026 — Tennessee and Maine grow while Syracuse misses targets. See which strategies are separating winners from losers.

Starting next fall, thousands of students at Carleton College, a selective private institution in Minnesota, will no longer be expected to take out federal or institutional loans to finance their educ...

Community colleges and regional public universities are more open to change.

Small private colleges are struggling to outrecruit the publics. But they can invest more in retention, by doing better what they already do best.

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The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.

The fate of bipartisan bills is in doubt at the congressional level, while state-level proposals have stalled in the legislatures.