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Let’s Get Back to the Town Halls of Yesteryear
Designed for true collaboration, these meetings work best when all parties have equal ownership.
New Guidance Directs Accreditors to Clean Up Complaint Policies
In new guidance released Tuesday, the U.S. Education Department clarified how college accrediting agencies should handle complaints about institutions. The...
Oberlin Sues Insurers Over Settlement in Bakery Case
The saga between Oberlin College and Gibson’s Bakery has spilled over into another lawsuit. This time it’s Oberlin suing four...
U.S. Panel Wants Higher Ed Accreditors to ‘Step Up’
Report says current rules set inconsistent and sometimes inadequate expectations regarding student achievement, but it stops short of suggesting “bright-line” standards for agencies.
Legal Compliance or ‘Interpretive Overreach’?
The Supreme Court ruling sent institutions scrambling to ensure compliance. Some say it’s also enabled politically motivated overreach.
UCLA Chancellor to Resign
University of California, Los Angeles, chancellor Gene Block is stepping down, effective next summer, ending a 17-year run at one...
Controversial University of Alaska Trustee Resigns
A controversial University of Alaska trustee is out after only two months in that role. Tuckerman Babcock, a former chief...
The Toll of a Botched Hire
Texas A&M announces it will pay Kathleen McElroy $1 million and concludes that the university’s prior president, despite protestations to the contrary, played a key role in the mess.