The plan is a short-term response to immediate financial pressures at two universities, which already have made steep cuts to employee positions, academic programs and other costs.
Posted inFort Worth
UTA polling site’s absence raises voting access concerns in central Arlington
UT Arlington won’t host an on-campus voting site during the upcoming midterm elections.
Posted inNew York City
Scholarship delays hit recently expanded CUNY community college program
The funding covers tuition, fees and books for returning students.
Posted inCommunity Colleges
Most N.C. community college student IDs are not approved for voting in midterms
Students at more than half of all North Carolina community colleges will not be allowed to use their student IDs to vote because their schools failed to get required state approval.
Posted inCommunity Colleges
Minnesota State weighs plan to transfer money from two-year colleges to shore up struggling universities
Minnesota State officials say a plan to shift millions of dollars from two-year colleges to struggling universities is a “stopgap” measure that should help as they address a $31.5 million systemwide deficit.
Posted inSan Antonio
Fall enrollment grows at most San Antonio colleges and universities. Here’s how each school fared.
Enrollment across most of San Antonio colleges and universities increased this fall, with more than 166,000 students attending public and private institutions in the city.
Posted inCalifornia
ICE arrests alarm California’s community colleges. How much can campus officials do?
Immigration enforcement agents are inciting panic at California’s community colleges.
Posted inTexas
Some Texas colleges get OK for new Workforce Pell that pays for job training
At least five Texas colleges are among the first in the country that can use the federal funding for jobs training.
Posted inChicago
To protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.
Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois colleges.
Posted inThe Dispatch
Two universities just received billions. More big gifts could follow.
Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oregon are the latest beneficiaries of the growing billionaire class.