Last week, Avalon Housing – the non-profit agency that works to end homelessness – announced that it had received nearly 7,000 timely applications for soon-to-be-completed…
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If you don’t understand why it is essential for community colleges to re-assess the monetary value of their programs, the researchers at the Federal Reserve…
Jamie Dimon said something interesting last month at a meeting of the Institute of International Finance, a banking trade group. “World War 3 has already…
In another sign that competition for post-secondary students is heating up, Inside Higher Ed reports that four-year schools are experimenting with dual enrollment. Dual enrollment…
I have written often about Eastern Gateway Community College, formerly in Steubenville, OH. EGCC made history last month by becoming the only Ohio publicly funded…
Utah’s Legislative Auditor General is telling the state’s publicly funded higher education institutions to get their figurative houses in order. A new report signals that…
Yesterday, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy awarded a $1M brownfield remediation grant to help remediate the long-vacant University Microfilms site at…
If you’re up on architecture, you know that “British architecture” encompasses everything from Stonehenge to Perpendicular Gothic to The Gherkin. But the enduring value of…
Washtenaw Community College might benefit by taking a page out of Hormel’s book. The multinational food distributor headquartered in Minnesota, is worth nearly $17B, but…
Over the past few years, there has been a growing recognition that the public’s faith in higher education is slipping. If you want to know…