A vote by faculty members to unionize at a small college in Montana may be a big breakthrough in efforts to organize professors at private institutions. It may also signal a shift in philosophy...
Small regional colleges are girding for a struggle that some of them fear will be their toughest yet: a battle to protect their profitable continuing-education programs from a new breed of...
When officials at Virginia Wesleyan College sought ways to keep tuition under control, no detail, however minuscule, was overlooked. The college took the major step of freezing faculty and staff...
State officials told Texas A&M University last week that it should have obtained their permission before it entered into an alliance with a private law school.
Princeton and Rice Universities are among 44 private institutions that are starting Tuition Plan Inc., an investment program in which Americans will be able to prepay tuition and, if admitted to...
Lynn University's Board of Trustees last week upheld the nearly $350,000-a-year salary and compensation of the president, Donald E. Ross. The board had been re-examining the president's pay in...
It was a big week for two distance-learning ventures. The California Virtual University named a former University of Pennsylvania provost, Stanley A. Chodorow, as its first chief executive officer...
Many private colleges have tapped their endowments to pay for increases in financial aid. The Johns Hopkins University tapped Michael R. Bloomberg. The business-news mogul's recent $30-million...
For students at many private colleges, the Clinton Administration's new "Hope Scholarship" may be less of a boon than they have been promised. The $1,500 tax credit, signed into law by the...
Australia's first private higher-education institution, Bond University in Queensland, has lost a court bid for control of its campus and now faces possible eviction.
The Internal Revenue Service last week published long-awaited proposed regulations explaining the circumstances under which top officials at non-profit organizations, including private...
Standard & Poor's, the credit-rating company, reports that upgrades in private colleges' debt ratings have outpaced downgrades by a ratio of four to one in each of the past two years.
For months, private colleges in Pennsylvania have buzzed with the rumor that Pennsylvania State University is about to take over Albright College, a struggling liberal-arts college near Reading.
The presidents of Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and U. of Pennsylvania top $500,000 It may be lonely at the top, but for college presidents, at least it pays well.