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Adopting Performance-Based Funding
New formula slated for approval in Ohio would appropriate state funds based on public colleges' retention and graduation rates rather than their incoming and current enrollments.
The Best and Worst of College Rejection Letters
An article in The Wall Street Journal reports on the best and worst approaches (from would-be students' perspective) to college...
Call to Tighten Conflict of Interest Rules for Medical Research
Researchers and medical faculty members should decline all gifts from medical companies and should refuse to publish or present material...
Of Many Minds on College Costs
Presidents, budget officers and professors hold similar views about nature and extent of public higher ed's finance problems, but diverge widely on potential solutions, survey finds. Talk among yourselves, authors urge.
Hunter Also Received Gift From Mysterious Donor
Add Hunter College to the list of institutions (which now stands at 14), all led by women, that have received...
To Friend or to Reject
Many admissions offices are using search engines and social networks to check out some applicants, or to promote institutions, survey finds.
Stimulus Funds Flow to Minn., Ore., and 3 Other States
The U.S. Education Department announced Tuesday that it was sending about $1.3 billion to five states as some of the...
Stateless Community College
Maricopa, one of the largest districts in the country, is planning for the possibility of not receiving any state dollars.