A new report that compares colleges by how accessible they are to needy students is drawing the ire of private-college leaders and lobbyists. The report, released last week by the Lumina Foundation...
The economic picture for private colleges and universities in the 2002-3 fiscal year looks less promising than it did six months ago, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
Professors at LeMoyne-Owen College have won the right to form a union, but the administration at the private Tennessee college is refusing to bargain and continues to wage a legal battle against...
Kuwait's first private university has begun accepting students in preparation for its scheduled opening in September. Gulf University for Science and Technology, an undergraduate institution, will grant bachelor's degrees in science-related fields and business administration.
Sylvan Learning Systems is extending its reach in international higher education to India. The company announced last month that it had put a down payment on a 250-acre site near Hyderabad, in south-central India, where it hopes to develop a university that would eventually enroll about 10,000 students in career-oriented programs.
Although academia is not traditionally known for high salaries, 27 private college presidents earned more than $500,000 last year, a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education shows.
With their endowments and contributions continuing to shrink in a sagging economy, the nation's private colleges and universities are raising tuition for the next academic year more sharply than in recent years, sometimes significantly so.
Attempts to unionize professors at private colleges -- already made difficult by a two-decade-old U.S. Supreme Court decision -- suffered two legal blows in February.
The economic picture for private colleges and universities in the 2002-3 fiscal year looks less promising than it did six months ago, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.
The King Faisal Foundation has announced plans to establish the first private university in Saudi Arabia. The new institution, to be called Dar al-Faisal University, is being built in the Saudi...
Proposed regulations to carry out a law that governs most federally financed agriculture programs unfairly favor public colleges and universities, the American Council on Education said...
Tens of thousands of college students across Nepal were locked out of classes for two days this week after the student wing of the Maoist rebel movement there called a strike, forcing...
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