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How to Lead a Small (but Mighty!) College
Barbara K. Mistick has some hard-earned wisdom for the presidents of small colleges and their trustees. → Read More
Campus Energy Systems Face a ‘Dramatically Different’ Future
Materials science, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and sensor capabilities are converging — for the better. → Read More
Welcome to the Campus Spaces Newsletter!
Among other news in this month’s report: College libraries and museums are adding teaching spaces, a spaceship lands at Cal Poly Pomona, a new gold standard for college baseball, and Colby expands its efforts to revitalize its hometown. → Read More
At Small Colleges, Smaller Departments
Faculty members at tiny institutions might appear to be lonely, but they collaborate across disciplines and geographic expanses to avoid being isolated. → Read More
Struggling Mills College Looks to a ‘Signature Experience’ to Boost Its Fortunes
The California women’s college, facing a financial emergency, is turning to a curricular strategy that a number of other small colleges have employed to sharpen their profiles among prospective students. → Read More
Big Data for Student Success Still Limited to Early Adopters
With a few exceptions, high-tech efforts to track students with learning analytics are still just getting off the ground. → Read More
Presidents of Small Colleges Bank on Fundraising to Survive
Big gifts are critical, but with concerns about the future of the liberal-arts institutions, some would-be donors are asking tougher questions before giving. → Read More
Presidents of Small Colleges Bank on Fundraising to Survive
Big gifts are critical, but with concerns about the future of the liberal-arts institutions, some would-be donors are asking tougher questions before giving. → Read More
Presidents of Small Colleges Bank on Fundraising to Survive
Big gifts are critical, but with concerns about the future of the liberal-arts institutions, some would-be donors are asking tougher questions before giving. → Read More
Authors Guild Takes Google Books Challenge to Supreme Court – The Ticker
The Authors Guild has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the organization’s decade-long challenge to Google’s Books program, which the guild says violates copyright law by making money for the online-search giant without providing any compensation to the books’ authors. The case dates to 2005, and was most recently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which ruled last… → Read More
'I'm Gonna Rise Above What I Was Doing'
Chicago taught Tavaris Sanders how to survive among gang members. Is there room for him to thrive at a liberal-arts college? → Read More
Using Its City as a Teaching Lab, a School Helps Rebuild It, Too
Faculty members and students at the University at Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning find plenty to do, on scales from citywide to highly personal. → Read More
For Small Colleges, Some Maintenance Can No Longer Be Deferred
The costs can be high, but, as one president puts it, repairing campus facilities says a lot to parents and prospective students about how much a college cares about itself. → Read More
Angelo State U. Football Player Is Killed by Police in Dallas Suburb – The Ticker
California State University, Sacramento California State University, Sacramento Schreiner University California State Polytechnic University, P... California State Polytechnic University, P... Macat Southern West Virginia Community and Techn... Marion Military Institute Georgian Court University The University of California, Irvine SUNY Delhi University of Colorado Boulder University of North… → Read More
Skip the Sushi Bar. This Campus Cafeteria Dishes Homegrown Simplicity.
Since it reopened, Antioch College is bucking the national trend of offering students food choices that are fancy but often not as healthful as they could be. → Read More
4 Years After Reopening, a 162-Year-Old ‘Start-Up’ College Reaches a Milestone
Antioch is graduating its first class and testing ideas on how to keep a small college alive. → Read More
4 Years After Reopening, a 162-Year-Old ‘Start-Up’ College Reaches a Milestone
Antioch is graduating its first class and testing ideas on how to keep a small college alive. → Read More
Kentucky Business School Backs Away From Naming Room for Ayn Rand – The Ticker
The University of Kentucky’s School of Business and Economics has renegotiated a 2004 deal that brought it a $2.5 million gift from a bank foundation in return for its promise to name a reading room for Ayn Rand and letting the foundation hand out copies of Rand’s novels, Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, the requirements in the 2004 deal were set by… → Read More
In 23-Page Email, Michael LaCour Attacks Critics of Withdrawn Paper – The Ticker
Michael J. LaCour, the UCLA graduate student accused of faking research for a paper about gay marriage that was published in Science in December, sent the Los Angeles Times a 23-page email Friday that calls his critics “unethical” and says he destroyed data supporting the paper’s findings because UCLA’s privacy policy required him to do so. Science retracted the paper Thursday. The Times said… → Read More
Sweet Briar’s Demise Puts New Pressure on College Trustees
Presidents and experts in college governance say smart, well-informed trustees are increasingly invaluable to small institutions — and not just for their donations. → Read More