In 2015, Sweet Briar College’s new president arrived to face a daunting task: resuscitate a campus that the previous administration had left for dead. Here's the inside story of how he did that.
Wake Forest University is using a gift from the Charles Koch Foundation to establish an institute focused on the study of "human flourishing." The result has been a bitter debate over its gift policies and perceived threats to academic freedom.
Both big and small programs put a priority on trust in their athletic tutors. "We’ll tell them right off the bat, We almost don’t care what you know," one tutor coordinator says. "The question is: Can you be trusted?"
The career-focused programs were initially pitched as the antithesis of traditional colleges. But now several boot camps are discovering the value of a more direct connection to universities, and vice versa.
Big gifts to higher education last year topped $6 billion for the first time, continuing a postrecession surge in eight- and nine-figure donations. Giving from smaller contributors is declining.
Geoff Pullum wishes a happy 80th birthday to his mentor and friend Rodney Huddleston, and explains why he's such a central figure in the grammar world.
Paid for and Created by University of Vermont UVM Med School Flips Classroom Med-school students see improved test scores, increased retention, and lower rates of failure as they implement active learning.
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