In March the American University of Afghanistan will open its doors here, introducing a new kind of higher education to the country. A private institution with an international faculty that will...
Students from wealthy families received much more financial aid from private colleges and universities in 2000 than they did in 1993, according to a short policy paper that was posted this week on...
A German-born Swiss businessman has pledged to give more than $250-million over the next five years to a private university in the northern city of Bremen, Germany. The donation is the largest...
The effects of state merit scholarships on Georgia's private colleges may provide a lesson to their counterparts nationwide In the 13 years since Georgia's merit-based HOPE Scholarship program was...
Four-year private institutions spent about $2,073 to recruit each new student in 2005, more than four times what four-year public institutions spent and 28 times what two-year public colleges...
Marking a major step in the educational sector, the Kerala assembly on Friday unanimously passed a legislation seeking to regulate admissions, fee structures and minority status of self-financing professional colleges. The Bill, piloted by Education Minister MA Baby, was passed by the House in an extended sitting that ended in the wee hours on Friday, with the Congress-led opposition UDF backing it after attacking the LDF government at various stages of the progress of the legislation.
A battle is being waged in California over the degree to which for-profit colleges should be regulated, a fight that could ultimately ripple out to affect other states.
Goldie Blumenstyk quotes Samuel C. Wood, a former assistant professor at Stanford University, as saying, "The for-profits are motivated to devote themselves to 'student acquisition' and retention" ("Why For-Profit Colleges Are Like Health Clubs," The Chronicle, May 5). What college isn't?
With all academe's interest in endowment growth, we may sometimes lose sight of the fact that a college's purpose is not to acquire wealth but to educate students. Isn't that what public colleges...
Private colleges took on higher levels of debt in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a new report by Moody's Investors Service, but they also kept themselves financially healthy, thanks to positive...
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