The nonprofit Touro College announced last week that it had signed a deal to sell its 7,500-student online division to a private-equity fund, in a transaction that signals investors' continuing...
The average tuition-discount rate for the fall of 2005 was roughly the same at private colleges as it was two years earlier, according to a survey by the National Association of College and...
In March the American University of Afghanistan will open its doors here, introducing a new kind of higher education to the country. A private institution with an international faculty that will...
The disproportionate wealth of a handful of elite private universities "offers a striking manifestation of the contemporary American tendency of the rich to get much richer," says a correspondent...
Two private institutions are contemplating a merger. Officials of Chapman University and Western University of Health Sciences, both located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area...
Private institutions offer more, and the gap is becoming unbridgeable You're a professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. It's a prestigious university with big-time resources and...
Touro College completed the sale of its separately accredited online division last week, for the previously undisclosed price of $190-million. The sum is about five times the value of...
Administrators at Georgetown University shut down the university's e-mail system and altered the accounts of thousands of students last week to erase a mass e-mail message from the university...
Getting accepted by an elite private college means everything to some high-school seniors. So they study hard, figuring that their grades and test scores will be scrutinized by tough admissions...
The University of Phoenix just keeps on growing. The national for-profit chain, whose growth has been closely watched in higher education, reports that enrollment in its degree programs rose by...
Lest anyone doubt that Asia holds promise for American higher-education companies, the chief executive of Laureate Education, who just engineered a $3.8-billion private-equity buyout of the company...
For-profit, degree-granting institutions have grown at a significantly faster rate than their nonprofit counterparts, according to a report released in July by the Education Commission of the State...
Students at Harvard University ended a 20-day sit-in this month with a promise by the university to form a committee. Dozens of members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement took over an...
New York University and the union that represents teaching assistants there recently reached a contract settlement, the first ever for TA's at a private university.
Clark Atlanta University's former general counsel has turned the tables on his old employer, filing a $1-million wrongful-termination lawsuit against the private institution.
Four thousand part-time professors at New York University will get a chance to vote in May on whether they should form what would be the largest adjunct-only union in the nation.
The House of Representatives has unanimously given its final approval to legislation that would allow an elite group of private colleges to discuss their financial-aid policies with one another...
Despite efforts to stave off financial troubles, New Hampshire's Notre Dame College will close at the end of the academic year, a victim of falling enrollment. The Board of Trustees of the Roman...