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Science News February 28, 2009 David Spergel |
Nation Needs Recovery Plan For Science Faculty Jobs Even if the economy were to recover over the next one to two years, the academic job market for the next few years is likely to be bleak. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Michael McDonald |
Paying the Price For Following Yale Top schools are being forced to increase borrowing to raise operating funds. |
Financial Planning July 1, 2007 Jim Grote |
Practice Profile: New School Ties Financial planner Janet Briaud, a former Texas A&M instructor, specializes in serving college professors. Millionaire professors. For them, teaching is just the beginning. |
Chemistry World May 31, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Texas universities' spending under scrutiny A push to root out 'waste' at public universities in Texas using quantitative metrics - including research grants - to assess faculty performance is making its way across the state. But academics are warning that this could make recruiting staff at these universities much more difficult. |
Inc. September 1, 2005 Max Chafkin |
The Best Jobs That Nobody Wants College entrepreneurship departments are raking in the bucks, but there aren't enough professors to staff them. |
IndustryWeek November 1, 2008 Jill Jusko |
Inflation Outpaces Federal Funding: By the Numbers Academics lose federal R&D dollars for science and engineering. |
BusinessWeek December 20, 2004 William C. Symonds |
Rich College, Poor College For the most part, the wealth of the private sector is likely to flow to those that already have the most. So fever-pitch fund-raising at top-tier universities leaves the others way behind. |
National Real Estate Investor August 1, 2006 |
Story on Newly Minted MBAs Snubs Leading Universities Letter to the editor: There are some 115 real estate programs at universities around the country. But there are only a handful of schools that have full programs, with regular full-time real estate professors. |
CFO April 1, 2006 |
Not So Easily Replaced Letters to the editor: The Retirement Age... Human Capital... |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Education: The Bleak Writing On The Blackboard State budget deficits will mean stingier spending on public schools. The bright spot: Test-prep and tutoring firms are thriving. |
Investment Advisor March 2010 James J. Green |
Numerology: Worried, but Staying Put A new survey finds that retirement plan participants at colleges, universities, and post-secondary schools are nervous about living comfortably in retirement. |
BusinessWeek January 20, 2011 Oliver Staley |
California Universities Feel the Squeeze Plans by California to reduce higher education spending by $1.4 billion could backfire long term by cutting job growth and tax revenue. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 |
National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Selling Out: Are Universities Turning into Corporate Enclaves? Derek Bok's new book, Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education, sets the record straight, explaining how, during the last 25 years, universities' commercial investments have grown at a tremendous pace. |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2004 Rich Smith |
A Revolution in Education Three leading Virginia colleges call for independence from state regulations. |
BusinessWeek April 28, 2011 Mildenberg & Nash |
California, Texas, and State Workers' Pay As California tries to close a $15.4 billion budget gap, state workers - who earn 25.2 percent more than their counterparts in Texas - face cuts. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2004 |
Wireless Plan Generates Revenue for Higher Ed. The program allows schools to offer select Sprint PCS rate plans to faculty, staff and students while collecting service-plan fees directly from the users, often as a supplementary charge with tuition. |
Bank Systems & Technology June 29, 2005 Katherine Burger |
Making the Grade Colleges, whether they are big universities or smaller liberal arts schools, should incorporate IT into the academic distribution requirements. That way the odds of building a skilled and flexible workforce would improve significantly. |
T.H.E. Journal February 2005 |
EDUCAUSE and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) Partnership A new partnership between EDUCAUSE and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) will put more tools in the hands of colleges and universities in an effort to improve cyber security. |
Information Today July 2, 2015 |
NSF Provides Funds for Engineering and Computer Science Departments The National Science Foundation is working to help universities prepare their future engineers and computer scientists. |
Mother Jones February 2001 Eyal Press & Jennifer Washburn |
Digital Diplomas Welcome to the brave new world of higher education, where profesors are 'content experts,' classes are 'courseware,' and students are customers. But just what is a dot-com degree worth? |
Job Journal November 9, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Postsecondary Teachers College-level instructors enjoy a class of students more eager to learn. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2013 Ned Stafford |
Greek universities struggle in face of job cuts The mood of many teachers and researchers at Greek universities has plumbed new depths of despair in the wake of layoffs of administrative staff members that have triggered strikes and closures at several universities. |
Chemistry World June 18, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
US urged to invest in its research universities The US's prosperity and security depend upon greater public investment in its research universities over the next decade, the US National Research Council concluded in a 14 June report. But not everyone is in agreement. |
Registered Rep. September 17, 2012 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College Rankings Are Not Accurate People don't appreciate that U.S. News doesn't even attempt to measure the type of learning going on at the nation's colleges and universities. |
BusinessWeek May 21, 2007 Michael Arndt |
MIT, Caltech--And The Gators? How the University of Florida moved to the major league of technology startups. |
Chemistry World February 4, 2011 Leila Sattary |
Higher education cuts hit home Universities in England will lose 940 million in funding in the next financial year with severe cuts to capital budgets and teaching. |
AFP eWire March 16, 2009 |
Colleges and Universities Raised Record Amounts in 2008, But Worry for Future Charitable contributions to colleges and universities in the United States grew by 6.2 percent in 2008, reaching $31.6 billion. Endowments, though, saw a less than 1 percent gain. |
InternetNews February 10, 2010 |
Big Blue Rolls Out Academic Cloud IBM's new Academic Skills Cloud gives universities a free suite of cloud-based business intelligence and information management applications to bolster their IT curricula. |
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Porter & Lavelle |
The Professor Is A Headhunter As companies compete fiercely for top talent on campus, they're forging closer relationships with influential faculty members - and they're not shy about spreading around the cash. |
T.H.E. Journal September 2006 Geoffrey H. Fletcher |
K-12, Meet Higher Ed The two arms of our education system have much to gain in recognizing their common ground. |
CIO February 17, 2010 Robert Lemos |
Higher Ed, Lower Costs: Colleges Remake Data Centers Driven by more austere state budgets and shrinking endowments, universities and colleges are looking for ways to improve the efficiency of their data centers. For technology vendors, that push could mean big business. |
Registered Rep. November 17, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
What Public Universities Cost at the State Level Public universities, where most students attend, charge significantly different prices. And the policies that dictate who receives financial aid and merit scholarships also vary dramatically. |
T.H.E. Journal March 2005 |
Tablet PCs Transform N.D. University Into a High-Tech School One of only four universities nationwide to employ tablet PCs on campus, Mayville has distributed M275s to more than 750 full-time students and current faculty members. |
Chemistry World August 25, 2009 Ned Stafford |
PhD Bribes Scandal Hits German Universities A criminal investigation into approximately 100 professors in Germany suspected of taking cash bribes for illegally helping unworthy students obtain doctoral degrees has rattled the foundations of German science and higher education. |
BusinessWeek November 10, 2003 Stanley Reed in London |
School Daze At British Universities They're facing huge funding gaps as subsidies shrink and enrollments swell. |
HBS Working Knowledge July 25, 2011 Christensen & Eyring |
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University Online learning is a disruptive technology that is making colleges and universities reconsider their higher education models. |
Job Journal February 29, 2004 Marty Nemko |
QUICK FIX: Could You Counsel College Students? Professors used to advise students, but colleges have realized that most profs are more interested in their own research than which courses Jill should take. So colleges now hire counselor types to advise undergraduates. |
Inc. November 1, 2002 Emily Barker |
Universities: Your New Best Friend For resource-hungry entrepreneurs, the explosion of university-based business-development programs comes as sweet relief in tight economic times. From Ann Arbor to Chapel Hill, find out what's out there for you -- and why colleges are in such a giving mood. |
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 William C. Symonds |
Harvard: No Longer Most Likely To Succeed President Larry Summers' bold reform plan for Harvard -- including undergraduate education improvement, increase in Harvard's role in science and engineering, and expansion of the campus -- could be derailed. |
Chemistry World December 9, 2013 Eugen Gerden |
Russian universities benefit from private funding bonanza Russian big business has significantly ramped up the amount of money it is putting into national universities in recent years, according to the presidents of Russia's top universities. |
HBS Working Knowledge September 1, 2003 Mallory Stark |
The Business of Education: An Interview with Derek Bok Is higher education becoming too chummy with the private sector? What can each learn from the other? An interview with the former Harvard President. Plus: Book excerpt. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
US university's scheme to rate faculty draws fire The document, recently released in response to a public information request, reportedly includes details about how much money each faculty member brought in during the last academic year through teaching and external research grants. |
Registered Rep. January 23, 2015 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
AskMen.com |
Ask A Professor It is amazing, rewarding work, and you can make a difference in the world. But only seek a Ph.D. and an academic career if you love your subject and can't imagine doing anything else. |
Chemistry World September 28, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
US public research universities in jeopardy, board warns The US's public research universities are in serious jeopardy, the National Science Board is warning. |
Chemistry World March 18, 2010 Anna Lewcock |
Universities face cuts as Hefce deals with first funding drop in years As the Higher Education Funding Council for England announces how it plans to distribute 7.4 billion in funding, uncertainties over future cuts and shifts in the political landscape cause anxiety in academia. |
Inc. February 2006 Carl Schramm |
Five Universities You Can Do Business With When it comes to technology transfer, smart schools resist the temptation to treat every entrepreneur's new idea like it's the next Google. |
Registered Rep. September 19, 2014 Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
CRM December 2010 Koa Beck |
Schools and Social Media: Pass or Flail The lessons universities are learning about emerging technologies. |