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Bakersfield College will cover a parking lot with solar panels to supply a third of campus energy needs and sell excess power back to the power grid when school is not in session.
When passed by the House SAFRA was projected to save the U.S. Treasury $87 billion. Using new CBO cost analyses, Harry Reid’s office now says the bill could increase future deficits by $36 billion.
To increase safety Purdue police are installing dozens of security cameras around the university campus.
John Fry, head of Franklin & Marshall College, will be president of Drexel U.
The Darden Restaurants Foundation awarded a $125,000 grant to the Hispanic College Fund.
Michelle Obama is slated for commencement speeches this spring at George Washington U and U of Arkansas-Pine Bluff.
Citing unacceptable job losses, 6 Democratic senators have united to slow or kill the overhaul of federal student loan programs (SAFRA) during final revisions to health care legislation.
At Widener U Dr. Yvonne Antonucci was honored for using an ARIS development server to help cross-cultural student teams experience international collaboration while developing B2B processes.
A Colorado State U study found that diets high in vegetables, fruits, and soy cut the risk of developing breast cancer by 30%.
Ohio Dominican U announced the school's next president: Peter Cimbolic.
The U of Washington prevailed in a legal dispute over suspension of faculty pay raises.
Professors have outlawed laptops in classes at George Washington U, American U, the College of William and Mary and the U of Virginia claiming that the computers serve primarily as distractions to students.
Greensboro College has named Lawrence Czarda as its 18th president.
Bloomberg News reports that ITT Educational Services may quickly generate a taxpayer-funded bonanza worth as much as $1 billion from the $20.8 million purchase of debt-ridden Daniel Webster College.
Philadelphia-area Holy Family and Arcadia universities will begin offering three-year degrees.
Stanford is looking into bringing back the ROTC 40 years after the program was forced off campus.
Students from a consortium of Kentucky universities and California Polytechnic U built 2 spacecraft the size of a child's toy block that will be carried by a NASA rocket into sub-orbital flight on March 11.
Israel's U.S. ambassador offered to return to the UC-Irvine where students interrupted his speech last month.
U Of Michigan research shows that fast freezing cancerous tumors in mice kills the cancer and causes an immune system response that builds a natural barrier to recurrence.
U of South Carolina partnered with SunGard HE to use Banner solutions and services on 8 campuses for business processes, information tools and digital resources.
Mayo Clinic doctors say a new form of CPR will save more lives than mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
In Beijing, kindergarten costs 6 times what China's top college costs.
U of Michigan researchers found HIV hiding in bone marrow cells explaining why HIV doesn't disappear even when AIDS virus in the blood is eliminated.
An appeals court ruled that an ex-Sussex community college adjunct professor may sue for age discrimination.
At Hamilton College a new “need-blind” admissions policy will take effect for fall 2010.
A Washington U and U of Arizona study found that the happiest people chat less and engage in deep, philosophical conversation more.
Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft produced a new method of physical interaction with mobile devices that replaces monitor hardware by using forearm skin to control input and output.
At Ball State U student borrowing skyrocketed in the last quarter of 2009 to $5.5 million, up 68% compared with two years prior.
The Wall Street Journal reports that GE will double on-campus hiring during the 2010 recruitment cycle.
Ashland U will purchase MedCentral College of Nursing on the way to launching new on-campus health science and health-related majors.