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Columbia, Mount Sinai, Penn and Stanford Medical Schools Drop ‘U.S. News’
The universities followed Harvard in criticizing the way the magazine ranks medical colleges.
Opinion
Accreditors Are Sleeping on the Job
The accrediting agencies’ collective failure to hold low-performing colleges accountable against objective standards harms students and taxpayers, Jay Urwitz writes.
Howard Receives $90 Million Military Research Contract
Howard University received a $90 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Air Force to establish...
Bethune-Cookman Students Protest Campus Conditions
Hundreds of students at Bethune-Cookman University gathered on campus Monday afternoon to protest what they said were unlivable conditions in...
The Ethics of Brain-Computer Interfacing: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute: Nancy Jecker, professor in the department of bioethics and humanities at the University of Washington...
College Physical Education Requirements Continue to Decline
About 32 percent of U.S. colleges and universities require students to take some sort of physical education course to graduate—down...
U of Minnesota President Quits Controversial Board Seat
University of Minnesota president Joan Gabel on Monday resigned her position on the Securian Financial Board of Directors, citing weeks...
New Presidents or Provosts: College of Wooster, Illinois Valley CC, Johnson & Wales U–Charlotte, Lawrence U, NHTI–Concord’s CC, Regis U, Rocky Mountain U, West Virginia U Institute of Technology
Salvador D. Aceves, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Regis University, in Colorado, has been named president there...