Inside Higher Ed

| By Rick Seltzer, www.insidehighered.com | HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — The Council of Independent Colleges has been among the most bullish organizations when discussing the state of small private liberal arts colleges, but a heightened sense of concern underpinned much of the organization’s annual Presidents Institute this year. The concern was evident in the institute’s programming, which included […]

| By Paul Fain, www.insidehighered.com | Overall college enrollments in the U.S. have declined for a sixth straight year, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, but at the slowest pace since the slide began. The 1 percent decline this fall was due to undergraduate enrollments, which fell by nearly 224,000 students, or 1.4 percent. […]

| By Joshua Kim | www.insidehighered.com | At the beginning of each academic year our president hosts a College wide community cookout. Hamburgers and hot dogs are grilled. Music is played. Students, faculty, and staff get to hang out in a relaxed atmosphere – eating and chatting with each other. There is a cost to serving everyone […]

| By Jeremy Bauer-wolf | www.insidehighered.com | Zack Langston, 26, shot himself in the chest so his brain could be studied. The former Pittsburg State University football star ended his life nearly four years ago, convinced the repeated collisions he endured at practices and games had resulted in memory loss, paranoia and his suicidal tendencies. Langston’s story is […]

By Jeremy Bauer-wolf | www.insidehighered.com | National Collegiate Athletic Association President Mark Emmert called for major reforms in collegiate athletics Monday, in perhaps his most substantive statements since the news of multiple recent sports scandals, which he said have eroded public trust. Addressing the independent Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, a panel that for nearly 30 years […]

By Nick Roll | www.insidehighered.com | Kenyon College has reported five concussions among its varsity athletes this year. Its men’s and women’s club rugby teams have almost double that number. Nine concussions were recorded this year between the two teams, and “that set off alarms, fairly loud alarms,” said Meredith Bonham, vice president for student affairs. Both […]