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For-Profit Colleges Open Another Front

Amid publicity blitz and vows of legislative intervention, the sector's primary trade group sues Education Department to block new rules. Suit faces uphill climb.

A Sudden Resignation at Southern Illinois

Gary L. Minish has resigned as provost of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale after just over a month on the...

Fund-Raisers See Rebound in Giving

Development officers of schools and colleges are projecting that 2010 totals for giving will represent a 3.7 percent increase over...
Opinion

Lost in the Middle

While faculty endlessly debate general education and requirements for the major, they should also focus on the potential of electives, writes Dan Edelstein.

UConn Wants to End Spring Party Weekend

The University of Connecticut is calling off all official events associated with weekend parties just before finals, and is barring...

Turning on the Faculty

Professors at public universities worry that a combination of economic anxiety, anti-union sentiment and frustration over rising college costs will make them and their institutions targets for populist anger.

The Mini-AGI

New $2 billion federal grant program for community (and for-profit) colleges will impose strict accountability requirements -- and compel participants to make academic materials available to the public.