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Tuition Protesters Are Still in Top Office at Cooper Union

New York Times

May 25, 2013

As embattled encampments go, the president’s office at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is not exactly Zuccotti Park in the fall of 2011. On May 8, students moved in to protest the school’s decision to charge undergraduate tuition for the first time in 150 years. Since that day, their perch atop Greenwich Village has become an Occupy Wall Street in miniature.

Calvin College lays off 22 employees

WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, Mich.

May 24, 2013

Calvin College is cutting 22 faculty and staff positions in an effort to save money and meet next year's budget goals. Calvin College President Michael K. Le Roy released a letter to faculty and staff, saying in part, "Most of these reductions were made weeks or months ago through faculty and staff attrition and non-renewal of faculty contracts."

Harkin donates papers to Drake

Des Moines Register

May 24, 2013

The Drake University center that will house U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin's professional papers from nearly 40 years in Congress will be called the Tom Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement, officials announced this morning. The Harkin Institute will have no research or programming constraints, a sticking point that led to the senator pulling out of a plan to leave his papers at Iowa State University, his alma mater.

A college graduation with 60 speakers

Washington Post - The Answer Sheet Blog

May 24, 2013

At just about every high school, college and university, audiences who gather to watch their loved ones graduate listen to one main key speaker. Landmark College in Vermont doesn’t name a primary speaker but, rather, gives every graduate two minutes to speak, so at graduation ceremonies this week, there were some 60 speakers addressing the crowd. Landmark is a two-year college exclusively for students with ADHD, dyslexia and specific learning disabilities.

Doctoring the Doctorate

Inside Higher Ed

May 24, 2013

Hoping to help Ph.D.s secure jobs and challenge old notions about academe, Stanford University will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year.

Education in the Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

May 24, 2013

Colorado College has everything one would expect at a traditional liberal arts college: small classes, prestigious faculty, high-achieving peers, a beautiful campus and an innovative curriculum with majors in the humanities, arts and sciences. Unlike most colleges, but true to the liberal arts tradition, Colorado College doesn't offer a major in business. But it now offers one in education.

An Evolution in Liberal Arts Learning: Wellesley College Announces First edX Classes

Ardmoreite, Ardmore, Okla.

May 23, 2013

Wellesley College, the first liberal arts college to join the online learning collaborative, edX, has announced the first four massive open online courses that the College will offer.

Mount Mercy president to take year sabbatical

Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

May 23, 2013

Mount Mercy University President Christopher Blake will take a one-year sabbatical after seven years leading the school, officials announced Thursday.

Wilson College Details Unusual Loan-Buyback Program

Chronicle of Higher Education

May 23, 2013

Wilson College has released details of an unusual debt-buyback offer that is one of the keys to a plan its trustees adopted in January in an effort to attract more students and keep the tiny Pennsylvania liberal-arts institution in business. Under the offer, the college will pay back up to $10,000 of a student’s federal Stafford student-loan indebtedness if the student earns a degree at Wilson within four years, participates in new financial-literacy programs the college will offer, and takes part in “activities and community services that would benefit the Wilson College community.”

Free Apps

Inside Higher Ed

May 23, 2013

On Wednesday, Reed officials announced that the college was eliminating the application fee -- making it an outlier among selective institutions, the overwhelming majority of which require some kind of application fee, though many waive it for low-income students. Administrators hope the change will spur more applications from prospective students, particularly the low-income and first-generation students who could benefit from the college’s large financial aid budget.