Two Washington groups that advocate private higher education have agreed to merge. The Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education, which for the past decade has helped corporations and foundations make grants to small, private colleges, will be absorbed by the Council of Independent Colleges. The council represents 316 small liberal-arts colleges.
The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that a college need not count the bonds it issues to finance student loans toward the limit on the total amount of tax-exempt bonds it may issue.
Florida's financial problems have prompted one private college to offer assistance to state residents who enroll. Lynn University, until 1991 the College of Boca Raton, created the Florida...
Pennsylvania has cut all direct aid to private colleges, ending decades of support for 11 Philadelphia-area institutions. At the University of Pennsylvania, officials say that the loss of the...
The announcement last week by Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., that he would leave the presidency of Yale University to head a new private-school venture stunned many people on the campus and left some...