Al-Zarqa Private University, one of the top private universities in the country, declined to renew the scholars' contracts at the end of the academic year. Many faculty members at the university, which is located in Az Zarqa, an industrial city northeast of Amman, operate under such contracts.
Career Education Corporation, one of the country's largest operators of for-profit colleges, has announced that the U.S. Department of Justice concluded its three-year criminal investigation of the company and decided that no charges will be brought against it.
Two years after New York State set up a grant program for construction projects at private nonprofit colleges, all $150-million remains in the account, the Times Union newspaper, in Albany, N.Y., reported. Some 50 applications for grants are pending, but the review board that must unanimously approve them still lacks the required three members.