With all academe's interest in endowment growth, we may sometimes lose sight of the fact that a college's purpose is not to acquire wealth but to educate students. Isn't that what public colleges...
Florida's attorney general expanded his investigation of allegedly misleading sales tactics at for-profit Florida Metropolitan University, demanding records detailing the school's job-placement rates, grading, instructor qualifications, financial aid and course prices.
Goldie Blumenstyk quotes Samuel C. Wood, a former assistant professor at Stanford University, as saying, "The for-profits are motivated to devote themselves to 'student acquisition' and retention" ("Why For-Profit Colleges Are Like Health Clubs," The Chronicle, May 5). What college isn't?
Greek riot police officers fired tear gas into a crowd of several thousand protesters in Athens this month, injuring about 15 people. While the protesters were primarily university students who oppose government proposals to restructure higher education in Greece, news reports suggested that the targets of the crackdown were "anarchists" who had infiltrated the demonstration to use it as a cover for vandalism.
Shengda College in central China has a diverse curriculum, foreign faculty members to teach English and a manicured campus, where weeping willows shade a recreational lake.
Marking a major step in the educational sector, the Kerala assembly on Friday unanimously passed a legislation seeking to regulate admissions, fee structures and minority status of self-financing professional colleges. The Bill, piloted by Education Minister MA Baby, was passed by the House in an extended sitting that ended in the wee hours on Friday, with the Congress-led opposition UDF backing it after attacking the LDF government at various stages of the progress of the legislation.
Wearing a dark-blue polyester suit, shiny black shoes, a stiff white shirt, and a humorless expression, Le Cong Co looks like the quintessential Vietnamese bureaucrat.
In the latest example of an apparent trend of private companies buying out for-profit colleges, Concorde Career Colleges Inc. announced on Wednesday that it would be acquired by an affiliate...