The group tries to bring in speakers that student wouldn't otherwise hear—a student-conducted study found that 95 percent of visiting speakers were liberal. On Inside Higher Ed.
The University of Rhode Island has done more with less, improving graduation rates even though its budget was slashed 30 percent during the recession. On Education Dive.
Legal and compliance fees have already reached $1.76 million and will continue to climb as more fees mount and the school has to repay shared NCAA revenue. On the Lousiville Courier-Journal.
Limits on campus free speech prevent intellectual development and allow the heckler's veto to determine what students learn and what they can think. On Inside Higher Ed.
Historical perspective on the horrors of slavery is harmed by attacks on public monuments. On the News & Observer.
Though opioid abuse on college campuses is relatively rare, colleges are trying to educate the local population and distribute nalozone to campus police departments. On Inside Higher Ed.
As non-profit universities look toward online education, for-profits want to avoid the regulation baggage they deal with. On the Federalist.
Consolidating information allows colleges to become more efficient and work together rather than against one another, as a recent change in Texas's Lone Star College shows. On Education Dive.
Cooper proposed a $20 million program to help students finish college and $30 million to train workers for jobs in high demand, among other ideas. On WRAL.
UVA is using legally questionable reasoning to bar the organizer of a white nationalist rally that turned deadly from campus grounds. On Minding the Campus.