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Florida Atlantic University may have its share of problems, but it also has enormous potential in the eyes of its new leader.

“But just like people asking us not to increase taxes, higher education needs to make hard choices on cuts and to justify what they are and what they plan ...
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Martin O'Malley rallied Friday in support of three bills aimed at keeping affordable higher education in Maryland. State House leaders -- all Democrats ...
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Angered by increases in tuition and budget-related cuts in government financing, students and faculty members at California public schools and colleges planned protests across the state on Thursday, as leaders on both sides of the political divide in the state promised answers for its educational crisis.

The U.S. interior secretary is investigating allegations of mismanagement at Haskell Indian Nations University.

U.S. Bank has donated more than $1 million to help pay for Ohio State University's new student union, which will open at the end of the month.

Jack Wilson, president of the University of Massachusetts, announced Monday that he will leave the post in June 2011 after nearly eight years, a tenure in which he knit together the previously disparate five-campus system, fostered research collaboration among faculty from different schools, and oversaw the creation of the state’s first public law school.

It was 5 p.m. in the lobby of the library of Metropolitan State University, and Clara Ware was sitting behind a table covered with pens, notepads and buttons with the Census 2010 logo, calling out like a sideshow barker. "Here comes a prospect," she said as a student walked up. Ware explained that filling out the census form this spring could mean more money for the university and the surrounding neighborhood, one of the oldest and most diverse in the city. The student took some knickknacks and promised to fill out her form. Ware smiled. "If we could get some more of that funding back, we could get some more services," said Ware, 48, a member of the commuter school's Student Senate who is among a group that has been pushing the census in classrooms, lobbies and hallways. Colleges, universities and their surrounding communities have a financial interest in making sure all of their students get counted in the census, so public relations campaigns like the one at Metropolitan State are popping up all over the country.