Daytona State says switching to only electronic textbooks will lighten the cost burden on students.

With less than half of new political science Ph.D.s finding tenure-track positions, the discipline considers whether nonacademic work is the answer.

Some see new “D+” campaign as edgy, while others say it really flunks the branding test.

When Buffalo president announced he would step down, local board announced interim successor -- despite lacking the power to do so.

Researchers find that some kinds of community colleges are achieving more gains than others in diversifying the science and engineering student body.

The University of California at Irvine plans to uphold the suspension of a Muslim Student Group, the Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday. The Muslim Student Union had appealed a suspension handed down in June after several students

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division II Committee on Infractions has sanctioned the University of Missouri at St. Louis for major violations in its men's golf program. The association handed down the penalties, which include two years of probation for the university, in response

The man with a suspicious item in his luggage that resulted in a partial shutdown on Thursday night of Miami International Airport turns out to be a former Texas Tech University professor who served time in prison for mishandling samples of bubonic plague. According to The Miami Herald, Thomas C. Butler was detained at the airport after what looked like a pipe bomb was seen in his

Andrew M. Cuomo, New York's attorney general and the Democratic candidate for governor, has announced that he is undertaking a statewide investigation into "deceptive credit-card-marketing practices that target college students" and has sent letters to every college in New York, asking that they provide his office with information about any exclusive contracts they have with credit- and debit-card companies. Mr. Cuomo,

Board infighting has led a longtime higher-education administrator to walk away from the presidency at Quincy College before he even started the job. Philip Conroy was named in June as the next president of the public college in Massachusetts, but he withdrew from the job this week in part because the board could not agree on the terms of his contract, The Patriot Ledger

A shooting by a disgruntled worker that took two lives in March has led Ohio State University to make several changes in how it hires employees and how it deals with troubled ones. According to The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio State announced this week that it would subject all new hires to

Lasell College plans to repay more than $191,000 to students amid allegations that the Massachusetts institution directed student-loan applicants to Citizens Bank, according to The Boston Globe. Lasell employees allegedly received "free entertainment, meals, and other gifts" in return for steering students to the lender. Martha Coakley, attorney general of

A Binghamton University center's director is accused of falsifying a travel-expense report and faces a felony criminal charge, a local newspaper, the Press & Sun-Bulletin, reported. The official, Seshu B. Desu, is a former dean of the university's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science and is now

The U.S. Government Accountability Office recognizes that it's really hard for states to report all of the information on how educational institutions are spending their money from the stimulus package -- more than $70-billion for schools and colleges. But they should be giving more detail than they are, the GAO recommended in a report released today. "While most states cannot provide information on how each subrecipient is using its

California State University at Fresno is no longer at the center of a dispute over whether a cache of old pictures are actually long-lost works by the famed photographer Ansel Adams. The university was scheduled to be the first stop of an exhibit of the photos, which were purchased for $45 at a garage sale and, if genuine, have been valued at $200-million. But Adams's heirs and executors have disputed the

Employers responding to a recent survey said they planned to hire 13.5 percent more new college graduates from the Class of 2011 than they did from the Class of 2010, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, which conducted the survey in July and August and released preliminary findings today. But the survey found that only 48

The editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Catherine D. DeAngelis, announced today that she would leave the medical publication next June, after 11 years at the helm. "I'm going to return to my academic home, Johns Hopkins University, ... and I'm going to start a center for professionalism—that's the ethics," Dr. DeAngelis said. A search committee for her successor will be led by

Marquette University announced on Tuesday that its next president would be the Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, who is currently president of the University of Scranton. One issue Father Pilarz is likely to face at Marquette when he takes office next summer is academic freedom at the Roman Catholic institution. Three months ago, Marquette drew sharp criticism

In annual rankings of the best places to work in the federal government, the Education Department ranked third from the bottom in the "large agencies" category, scoring just above the National Archives and Records Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which tied for last. The rankings are

With more faculty members than ever before likely to have domestic partners or spouses who are also academics, the American Association of University Professors has released recommendations to help colleges understand the issues surrounding dual-career appointments and to develop policies in response.  

Among the recommendations, which were written by a subcommittee of the Committee on Women in the