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Major Cuts Will Force Universities To Scale Back In Key Area

stateline | Jim Malewitz | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics

This piece comes to us courtesy of Stateline. Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts that provides daily repo...

University Research Discovers Hard Truths Of Budget Crisis

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2013 | Politics

By Gabriel Debenedetti and Peter Rudegeair March 9 (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Carol Greider used to have eigh...

Every University Is Bracing For Massive Cuts This Week

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.27.2013 | College

The impending federal budget cuts known as the sequester, which will go into effect on Friday without action by Congress, are poised to have a signifi...

Study Says Turbo Parents Can Depress Their College-aged Kids

Reuters | Posted 04.15.2013 | Healthy Living

By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Turbo-charged parents still running their university-aged children's schedules, laundr...

10 Reasons Why the Campus Is Here to Stay

John D. Haeger | Posted 03.19.2013 | College
John D. Haeger

Recent discussions about tech-inspired disruptions to traditional higher education have prompted me to consider what motivates students to pursue a university education in what is increasingly regarded as the old-fashioned way: on campus.

Tyler Kingkade

College Presidents Are Freaked Out About The Fiscal Cliff

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.15.2012 | College

NEW YORK -- The looming fiscal cliff could mean colleges and universities around the country -- both public and private -- will lose billions of dolla...

Researchers: Having A Terrible Roommate Ruins Your Grades

Posted 08.07.2012 | College

Living with a crappy dorm roommate could drag down your GPA as well as your mood. There is no shortage of research to prove roommate relations fact...

Dog Owners, Pick Up Your Pooper-Scoopers In The Name of University Research

The Huffington Post | Alyssa Creamer | Posted 07.09.2012 | College

Bagging man's best friend's smelly situation can be considered a contribution to science, according to the University of Calgary in Canada. Scienti...

Turning Science Into Startups: NSF Launches Innovation Corps

Steve Blank | Posted 09.27.2011 | Business
Steve Blank

The NSF has announced the Innovation Corps -- a program to take the most promising research projects in American university laboratories and turn them into startups.

Kauffman Foundation: How To Jump Start America's Entrepreneurial Engine Without Spending

Robert E. Litan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Robert E. Litan

The Rules for Growth can jump start America's entrepreneurial engine, paving the way for sustained growth in jobs and income -- all at little or no cost to taxpayers.