Institutions

La Verne seeks to terminate a gadfly professor for allegedly threatening to "assassinate" a colleague. Is it going too far?

Public universities in several states are obligated to buy furniture and other products made in state prisons, which some students call exploitative.

Many colleges have pulled back on lobbying Congress. But with talk of earmarks coming back, will higher education institutions start spending big on K Street lobbyists again?

Despite the presumption that endowments are a four-year college's game, community colleges have made significant gains in fundraising over the years.

Concordia University in Portland, Ore., announced it will be closing at the end of the spring semester. While the university had grown its graduate enrollment, it cited the changing nature of higher education as a reason for its closure.

Community college students are not just focused on vocational skills training but are also as committed to learning for its own sake as the students in selective liberal arts institutions, argues Michael Thurston.

We should redesign gen ed so that it doesn't package students' learning in a way that treats them as uninterested, unintellectual and incapable, argues Paul Hanstedt.

Faculty members at Lee College object to new annual contracts and a proposal to eliminate division chairs but hope for the best under a new president.