Founded before the Civil War to educate young women, small-town Mitchell Community College has survived by keeping up with its county’s changing needs.
The seal features images of a frontiersman and a conquistador. For decades, critics have protested it as racist. Now, there’s hope it might finally be changed.
By Timothy Sandoval (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Fund raisers debate the university's decision to end phone-athons, weighing the costs of annoying donors versus the benefits of acquiring more of them.
In a Chronicle video, Nariman Farvardin, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, describes balancing its hands-on majors with the liberal arts.
A spokesman for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey organization says the panic over scary clown sightings is "a distraction for our clowns, who just want to make people laugh."
George H. Williams describes an initiative at Vanderbilt University to encourage teachers -- both new and experienced -- to visit one another's classrooms to observe pedagogical strategies.
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