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Sallie Mae sold $1.5 billion in 8% notes at an 8.25% yield, which is a higher rate of interest than the company charges some borrowers for student loans. The mere fact that the credit markets are again a source of liquidity is welcome financial news to many.
California State U will market about $208 million of taxable Build America Bonds after selling $124.3 million in tax-exempt debt.
Pat Gamble will be the next president of the Alaska state university system.
In Maryland, state and county cuts would reduce Montgomery College funding to levels 3 years ago when the school had 2,300 fewer students taking credit courses.
U of Mississippi is reclassifying the trademarked Colonel Rebel mascot as historical and adding it to the college's vault to curtail use of the divisive image.
DeVry appointed Anthony Stanziani president of DeVry College of New York.
According to the Census Bureau most college students should be counted at their college address, on campus or off campus, not at the home of their parents.
After 3 deaths in campus gorges, Cornell has posted guards on bridges and is waging a suicide prevention campaign.
Some California colleges are warning students about traveling into Mexico for spring break amid continued violence in border towns.
Dating expert and author of MENU DATING Tristan Coopersmith named 10 places to meet a man. College is not on the list.
Gender-neutral housing is s.o.p. dormitory living today at some 50 U.S. colleges, where males and females share dorm rooms.
Using Sagarin Ratings sports statistician and Indiana U professor Wayne Winston has "simulated" the NCAA Basketball tournament. Kansas has a 31.9% chance of winning.
Six higher education associations, including the American Council on Education, support the Senate's latest Patent Reform Act of 2009 amendment as more favorable to universities.
"Dana College’s mission, accreditation, programs, faculty, campus and facilities will be unchanged" says a press release announcing the college's sale to a new for-profit education company headed by former Argosy and Walden executives.
U of Michigan researchers say a protein in bananas could help block the spread of HIV.
American Enterprise Institute and Education Sector are highly critical of U-CAN and VSA voluntary accountability programs.
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander said a student loan Washington takeover “overcharges students, adds half a trillion to debt, sends 19 million students to 4 federal call centers.”
Boston College received a $20 million gift from the co-founder of a Massachusetts supermarket chain to help train teachers for Catholic schools and universities.
A federal judge ruled that Tarrant County College violated the 1st Amendment rights of 2 students when it prohibited their attempts to stage empty-holster protests last fall.
The Boston Globe opines that "college administrators can’t be feeling good that so many of their high-priced campuses look like fantasy lands to the majority of the nation’s seekers of higher education."
A Public Agenda report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says 71% of college dropouts left because of financial concerns. 34% because classes were difficult.
A possible student suicide cluster has Cornell University on edge.
U of Colorado-Boulder's Noah Fierer discovered that bacteria living on a person's hands could accurately identify that individual and be used for crime scene investigations.
Princeton U scientists tested Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity for two years and found that the theory applies beyond our solar system.
By 2011-12, students at for-profit schools should receive $10 billion in Pell grants, more than their public counterparts.
The world's largest meatball, weighing in at 400 pounds, is being cooked at Glen Oaks CC.
The president of Vermont's senate scuttled a bill that would have allowed the U of Vermont and state colleges to guarantee anonymity to donors.
Butler U faculty scuttled a student-led drive to invite Supreme Court chief justice John Roberts to speak at commencement.
Purdue U is installing $1.4 million worth of surveillance cameras on campus to increase safety and deter crime.
U of Massachusetts and an Amherst weight-loss camp for children have teamed up to fight childhood obesity.