Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Bluffton University will merge with the University of Findlay by fall 2025, pending approval from state agencies and their shared accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission. The private Christian institutions — both founded in the 19th…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A group of current and former Cornell University employees asked the U.S. Supreme Court March 11 to clarify what plaintiffs must show to claim that a retirement plan fiduciary engaged in prohibited transactions under the…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A state-appointed monitor overseeing New Jersey City University’s finances and governance has directed that the public institution partner with another college to put it on better financial footing, according to a report released Tuesday. New Jersey lawmakers…
Dive Brief: Fontbonne University, a Roman Catholic institution in St. Louis, plans to close after the summer 2025 term, officials announced Monday. The university will not admit a class for fall 2024 and will instead focus on graduating as many current students as possible. Officials said they made the decision after determining that the university’s…
Dive Brief: Clarkson University plans to transfer 16 graduate-level teaching programs to Siena College, pending approval by the New York State Education Department, the two private nonprofit institutions announced this week. Officials said they expect the move to be completed in June. About 100 students are currently enrolled in the affected master’s and certificate programs,…
Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office fined Liberty University, in Virginia, a record $14 million for violating a federal campus safety law, the agency announced Tuesday. The fine is the largest ever imposed over violations of the 34-year-old Clery Act, which mandates that federally funded colleges provide notices about public…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Valparaiso University, in Indiana, will consider cutting up to 28 programs as part of a multi-year review intended to rightsize its academic offerings. The private Lutheran institution offers too many majors, minors and graduate degrees…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: An Idaho legislative committee advanced a resolution Friday that urges the state’s education board to reconsider its approval of the University of Idaho’s planned acquisition of the University of Phoenix. The House’s State Affairs Committee…
State lawmakers could put the University of Idaho’s planned acquisition of the University of Phoenix at “grave risk” if they file a lawsuit against the deal, Kurt Liebich, a member of the state’s education board, said during a legislative hearing Thursday. Last May, the Idaho State Board of Education approved the state university’s request to…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Bay Path University announced Tuesday its plans to acquire Cambridge College, bringing together two private Massachusetts nonprofits focused on career education. The colleges expect the deal to close this June pending accreditor and regulatory approval….