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In Nebraska 900 + employees, in the Dept of Education and State College System, will not experience furloughs and will get raises, unlike nonunion employees across other state government sectors.
A Brigham Young U study shows people with strong social relationships and interactions live longer. Relationship factors seem as important as quitting smoking to living a long and healthy life.
Stanford's David F. Labaree contends growing college envy doesn't erase social inequities, but forces everyone to seek even higher credentials, while bankrupting families and our government.
A new Massachusetts law rebrands 6 state colleges as universities. Three others will retain their names, but become part of the new state university system.
The USDA says Princeton mishandled lab primates. But the school chalked up most of the violations to improper maintenance of records.
A judge upheld the right of a counseling program at Eastern Michigan U to kick out a master's student who declined to counsel gay clients in an affirming way.
An AP-Univision poll found Hispanics placing a higher value on getting a college diploma than the American population as a whole.
Washington State U is partnering with Oracle Consulting to replace a legacy student system with a comprehensive set of Oracle software and infrastructure technology solutions.
The Dept of Labor's guidelines on unpaid internships have "unintended consequences" that make internships costlier and inaccessible to some students .
U of Texas mens and womens athletic program announced a partnership with Branded Retail Energy to create Texas Longhorns Energy, allowing fans and alumni in Texas to purchase electricity through Branded's Champion Energy Services.
The Kellogg Foundation gave Cal Poly Pomona $42 million to increase educational opportunities for underrepresented communities in Southern California.
Connecticut's governor was successful in reducing the pay raises of the chancellor and university presidents from about 10% to 5%.
San Quentin is California's oldest prison and the only prison that still provides free college-level education to inmates.
Under proposed federal regulations public and for-profit vocational programs under 2 years with large shares of students not earning enough to pay back student loans would be required to disclose debt burdens and could lose federal financial aid dollars.
A little-known but growing population of financially stressed college students face hunger and sometimes homelessness but often often keep it hidden.
U of Washington said that an agreement reached between Nike and laid-off workers in Honduras paves the way for the UW to continue doing business with Nike.
Colleges are now required to include the prices of textbooks and ISBNs on their course listing website.
A Kentucky CC and Austin Peay State U received a $1.2 million grant to assist the schools in creating a chemical engineering technology degree program for green industries.
A U of New Hampshire researcher received a $400,000 federal grant to study how drugs used to treat ADHD affect normal adolescent brains.
“We’re seeing a substantial number of high school kids choosing technical colleges as their first choice after graduation,” said Georgia Northwestern Technical College president Craig McDaniel.
A pair of Brigham Young U students invented and built a drivable couch. After testing it by driving it around BYU's campus, the university banned it.
Experts at U of Alaska-Fairbanks say that peonies could be state's next cash crop.
The jury heard opening arguments in the federal trial of Karen Sypher, charged with trying to extort millions of dollars from U of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino.
Giants quarterback Eli Manning and his wife have given $1 million to an academic scholarship program at their alma mater, the U of Mississippi.
Students from New York attending participating colleges in the state can plug the gap between what they have and what they need to pay for college with fixed rate HELP loans.
Centenary College is closing its satellite business schools in China and Taiwan after discovering rampant cheating among local students.
Connecticut's governor asked state system trustees to rescind recent raises given to top postsecondary administrators, including the system's chancellor and university presidents.
The National Rifle Association is taking the gun rights message to liberal academia with a new NRA University initiative.
U of South Florida used chemical fingerprinting to definitively link clouds of underwater oil in the Gulf of Mexico to the BP oil disaster.
A San Jose City College prof settled for $100 K after a legal battle over her response to a class question about homosexuality's affects on heredity.