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Students in Penn State sweatshirts walk on the Penn State Shenango campus.

2-Year College May Move to Penn State Campus

Butler County Community College and Penn State Shenango are considering sharing a campus as the state wrestles with demographic shifts and declining enrollment.

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The Next Iteration of Community College?

A new national, for-profit community college seeks to bring a promising but costly educational model to scale online.

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Opinion

Toward a More Equitable Research Enterprise

Sharing the wealth in terms of federal research dollars would improve the quality of education for many students and increase U.S. competitiveness, Kim Wilcox writes.

West Virginia University students, many wearing red, protesting outside the Mountainlair.

Hundreds of Students Protest WVU’s Proposed Program and Faculty Cuts

West Virginia University students staged a walkout Monday to oppose the university’s significant proposed employee layoffs and program cuts.

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St. Norbert Trustee Sues Grad for Defamation

A former administrator was accused of mishandling sexual assault issues at St. Norbert College. Now he’s a trustee and suing a graduate who publicly criticized his leadership.

A graph of Wake Technical Community College's enrollment growth overlaid onto a photo of students in class.

Community Colleges Buoyed by Modest Enrollment Growth

As some two-year colleges start to recover after deep enrollment declines, administrators at these institutions are hopeful the trend lines keep pointing up.

An orange merge sign illustrating the winding road colleges and universities have to take now if they merge.

Feds Complicate College Mergers, With Possible Unintended Consequences

At a time when mergers might help more institutions survive, new rules from the Education Department—aimed at protecting students and taxpayers—might result in more college closures instead.

Opinion

Doctors Receive Much More Training Than Nurses Do

Nurses do important work, but doctors get much more graduate and residency training.