Efforts to invest university endowments in socially responsible companies have yielded promising early results, according to a new report sharing several institutional strategies.
At community colleges, many students are spending nights on friends’ couches or sleeping in cars. Advocates are pushing for solutions, including safer places to park overnight.
Students alarmed by climate change are stepping up pressure on universities to pull investments from fossil fuel industries, an effort that is gaining traction at prestigious schools like Georgetown, Harvard and Yale.
The new plan would mean that any student with a 2.5 high school grade point average could be considered for admission at any UNC System school regardless of their standardized
Oberlin College's president said Tuesday the college is taking steps to save up to $2 million annually by outsourcing more than 100 jobs currently held by unionized workers.
“There’s a set of institutions that have really lost momentum, or reversed it,” says a consultant who manages a program designed to help colleges expand their enrollments of low- and middle-income students.
On top of mental-health, class-action, and other legal concerns, the coming era of austerity, downsizing, and closings will bring a variety of new headaches.
Colleges and students are trying to find a middle ground between the increasing demands for mental health services and the rising costs of providing it.
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