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The article examines the nontraditional enrollment paths many college students take through higher education which includes attending multiple institutions, engaging in co-op programs and internships, and taking courses from alternative providers or through massive open online courses (MOOCs). According to the author, higher education is still designed in a linear fashion despite students' increasing preferences for options. He suggests a student-center approach to education design.

The article focuses on the findings of a survey conducted through The Chronicle/Gallup Panel that a plurality of U.S. people favor presidential candidate Barack Obama to tackle college costs. Based on the survey, 42 percent of the respondents think that controlling college costs is extremely important for the next president to address. On the question of which candidate would do more to help families pay for college, Obama maintains a 13-point advantage, 32 percent to 19 percent, over presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. Robert C. Lockwood, a partner in the Gallup Organization, claims that more than half of the respondents think that the U.S. government should have a role in controlling tuition.

The article presents several suggestions to refocus on college search amid COVID-19 pandemic; including recommendations to broaden their college list beyond the narrow set of eight to ten schools; to seek online information sessions; and to focus on academic requirements.

To survive, colleges need to recruit a wider swath of students and connect their curriculum to the job market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the report on higher education accreditation delivered to the U.S. secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, by the Commission on the Future of Higher Education and subsequent changes proposed by Spellings. She wants accreditation forms to ask colleges more specific questions about how and what students are learning and to find more accurate ways of measuring learning. Spellings has called for a meeting with accreditors to discuss the issue. Many accreditors are concerned that her methods for measuring student learning may be too simplistic. They also fear that the federal government may impose standards to directly control the accrediting industry.

The article focuses on the condition of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was affected by Hurricane Katrina that forced it to cancel fall semester in the previous year. Nearly 90 percent of its 6,400 undergraduates returned to the university when it reopened in January 2006. There are several obstacles to the full recovery of the university. Despite a record 21,000 applications for this fall's freshman class, the university may end up falling some 200 short of its enrollment goal of 1,400 new students, which was already nearly 300 smaller than previous year's freshman class. Although most faculty members support the restructuring plan, some of those whose jobs are being eliminated are fighting it. Tulane's campus and its surrounding neighborhood are functioning again, but one third of the New Orleans is still deserted. The city is in varying stages of recovery. Changing the perception that the city is largely uninhabitable is especially important for Tulane, which draws about 80 percent of its students from outside Louisiana.

The article reports that accreditors and some college groups in the U.S. are aghast at a proposal to eliminate regional accreditors and replace them with a national accreditation body. The proposal is contained in a discussion paper released late last month by the secretary of education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education. The news came just as the chairman of the commission allayed another concern of college officials by publicly promising that a mandatory test of college students would not be among the panel's final recommendations.

The article reports that the enrollment at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts' continuing-education division has climbed nearly 20 percent since president Christopher E. Hopey arrived. Northeastern's renaissance comes at a time when adult education is booming nationwide. Hopey has spent $250,000 on surveys that have helped make informed decisions on degree programs and he pays $25,000 a year as part of a consortium of 61 colleges that share research done on their behalf by Eduventures. Now 60 percent of the continuing-education students at Northeastern are enrolled in undergraduate programs.

The article focuses on a new survey uncovers concerns over faculty tenure and lack of training for the top job. The survey, the first of its kind and completed by nearly 6 in 10 four-year college presidents nationwide this past summer, shows that financial issues permeate almost every facet of the top job on campuses. John Maguire, chairman of Maguire Associates, an educational-consulting firm in Bedford, Massachusetts, which conducted the survey, says the overall findings indicate that many college presidents have an obsession, day in and day out, with things related to finance.

Features David J. Skorton, a physician, musician and president of the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Career highlights; Role of Skorton in a Capitol Hill hearing regarding the vandalism in the university's research laboratories and offices in May 2005; Efforts done by Skorton to help the university recover from the impact of the reduction of its state budget; Educational background of the president.

Discusses the issues surrounding the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to permit the use of affirmative action in college admissions in 2003. Significance of the decision to universities; Reaction of several organizations to the decision; Decline in the enrollment of Michigan State University .

Highlights the Republican agenda on higher-education policy in the U.S. with the re-election of President George W. Bush in 2004. Reaction of the student-loan industry to the possibility that presidential candidate John Kerry would win in the elections; Information on the academic bill of rights proposed by David Horowitz, president of the California-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture; Role of social issues in science policy.

Focuses on the political platforms of U.S. Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry. Details of his proposals for education; Similarities of Kerry's proposals with that of former U.S. President Bill Clinton in 1992; Amount of federal aid to higher education that Kerry has pledged; Common political messages of Kerry during his college tours; Information on the two-pronged approach to be used by Kerry to address the rising college costs.

Reports on the protest against Chief Illiniwek as mascot of University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Impact of the issue on the educational effectiveness of the university; Popularity of the mascot; Opposition of cell and structural biology professor Stephen J. Kaufman to the depiction of the Chief as a mascot; Arguments in favor of the use of the mascot. INSET: Long Island U. Settles With EPA Over Hazardous Waste.

Presents the results of a survey conducted by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" on the confidence of U.S. citizens in higher education. Percentage of respondents who affirmed the value of higher-education institutions to the country; Need for college officials to stop being arrogant in answering the legitimate concerns of the public; Challenges that go into running a campus.

Presents an obituary for Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California who died in 2003.

Reports on the plan of Massachusetts' governor Mitt Romney to eliminate the post of University of Massachusetts system president as part of a reorganization effort, as of April 2003. Reaction from University of Massachusetts system president William M. Bulger; Debates drawn by the proposal; Details on Romney's reorganization plan.

Discusses the state of public colleges and public higher education in the U.S. as of February 28, 2003. Effect of the economic condition of the country on public colleges; Impact of tax cuts on public colleges; Information on several proposals to improve the condition of public colleges and public higher education.

Focuses on California Governor Gray Davis and his views on higher education. Determination of the governor to make higher education a solution to the state's budget problem; Comments from the state's college teachers leaders in who Governor Davis confers with on higher education; Information on Davis.

Focuses on the seminar-style cross-disciplinary classes that honors students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania take. Reason regional state colleges start honors programs; Implications of the growth of honors programs at state colleges; Background on the Indiana University.

Focuses on the efforts of campuses across the U.S. to deal with budget deficits. Budgetary problems facing universities; Influence of budget cuts on tuition fee; Outlook on the budget deficit for 2002 to 2003; Significance of sales tax to budget allocation.

Reports on the decline in the dominance of New England in higher education in the United States as of February 15, 2002. Decline in the number of college students since 1989 to 2002; Number of colleges in Boston, Massachusetts.

Profiles Graham B. Spanier, president of Pennyslvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania. Personal background; His popularity among students; His share of controversy. INSET: Graham B. Spanier..

Presents updates on the federal budget allotted for University of Hawaii ten-campus system as of February 16, 2001. Controversies surrounding the allotted budget; How the university was affected by the economic condition of the United States during the 1990s; Fund-raising opportunities being considered.

Discusses the plan to fix a major flaw in the merit scholarship in Georgia. Proposed solution to the problem; Delivery of state financial aid to students pioneered by Georgia in 1993; Complaints of college officials and lawmakers on the merit programs; Significance of merit scholarships in terms of student retention.

Discusses the challenges facing state colleges in the United States. Nevada's vision for its state college at Henderson; Expanded offerings of Massachusetts' Fitchburg State College; Why expansion, including the offering of graduate degrees, was necessary; Comments from Frank Newman, a former president of the Education Commission of the States.

Focuses on Texas Governor George W. Bush and his mixed record on higher education in Texas. His support for the ten percent law, which allows the top ten percent of high school students to be admitted into state colleges; Civil rights debates about college education in Texas; Budget battles; Impact of his stance on higher education on his presidential campaign.

Reports on the problems at the University of North Carolina system that are alleged results of shortsighted policies by officials and lawmakers. Budget; Difficulties of serving increasing number of students; Controversial proposals to prevent decline of the public university. INSETS: Ability to pay?;How a student trustee handled the tense debate on tuition..

Focuses on the debate by officials of Texas Tech University in Lubbock and Texas' University of Houston's main campus over whether to build more research facilities or improve existing ones. How the Chancellor of the Board of Regents, William H. Cunningham, backed a proposal to receive more state financing on the condition that two other universities receive funding first; Arguments for and against adding a tier one research institute to increase school ranking.

The article offers information on several myths for choosing a major subject for high school. Topics discussed include views of Douglas A. Webber, an associate professor of economics at Temple University on the earnings related to academic field; databases for early earnings of graduates of institutions within several states including Arkansas, Colorado, and Minnesota; and popularity of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education among the students.

Focuses on the efforts of colleges outside Texas to recruit minority high school students from Texas. Background on the 1996 Hopwood vs. Texas decision which banned the use of affirmative action by Texas institutions; Financial aid as a persuasion tactic offered by recruiters; Attempts by counselors to dissuade minority students from attending out-of-state schools.

Focuses on the debate of whether to create a lottery in Alabama that would pay for a scholarship program and could make community colleges free. Issues facing the Governor Don Siegelman; Uncertainty of the effect of lottery on college access in Alabama; Demands of community colleges, four-year public institutions, private colleges, and college leaders; Copy of Georgia's HOPE scholarship program; Critics of the lottery program; Outlook.

Profiles Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University System. Suggestion of year-round classes; Picketing and lack of support; How he keeps the campus presidents running well; Other academic proposals; Resistance; Career highlights. INSET: Charles B. Reed.

Comments on the state of Louisiana's merit scholarship program as of April 16, 1999. Potential state-budget deficit a threat to the program; Comments of the state's Commissioner of Higher Education, E. Joseph Savoie; Similar programs in other states; Rising popularity of the programs; Underestimation of the cost of setting low academic standards for the awards. INSET: Copying Georgia's HOPE: States That Are Weighing....

Reports on how technical colleges in the United States are experiencing a transformation during the late 1990s. Efforts of states such as Indiana and Kentucky to combine technical and liberal arts colleges; Details of changes to be made at Elizabethtown Technical College in Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Concerns educators have regarding the future of technical colleges as a separate entity in the educational system of the US.

Presents news briefs from individual states in the United States relating to higher education for December 11, 1998. Agreement of Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education to reject proposals to close or relocate Peru State College; Rejection by voters of a ballot measure to operate a prepayment tuition program in Oregon; A report by the Institute for Higher Education Policy finding that remedial classes are cost-effective; Other news.

States that in 1998 Arizona's University of Phoenix applied for a license from the Commission on Higher Education in New Jersey to operate a campus in the state. Challenges facing the university; Its expansion over the last 22 years; The public debate over the application; The university's hiring of lobbyist Bill Palatucci; Other states where the university is seeking to operate.

Focuses on the impact of United States President Bill Clinton's legislation that created the AmeriCorps, a national-service education program in 1993. Number of AmeriCorps members who have earned education awards from the program; Other statistics on program participants; Comments on the program.

Focuses on the competition for students expected by small regional colleges from distance-education technology. Distance-education programs that are less expensive and more convenient; Diplomas that are offered from better-known universities; The fact that small regional colleges lack endowments and are dependent on tuition income; Continuing education courses as a lucrative source for small regional colleges.

Focuses on the controversy surrounding California University of Pennsylvania President Angelo Armenti's aggressive approach to eradicating sexual harasssment on campus. Claim of critics that he has fired professors based on unsupported student complaints and used his stated objective to get rid of detractors and long-term employees; Armenti's view; Position of the faculty union leaders; Armenti's use of private investigators; Details of specific

The article report on the rise in demand of apprenticeship programs in the U.S. to address issues of skilled labor shortage. It presents views of Andy Winnett, director of agricultural program at the Walla Walla Community College in Washington, D.C. It also reflects on the struggle faced by power generation and distribution firm Siemens Energy to find qualified workers for a gas turbine production plant in Charlotte, North Carolina.

A learning innovator shares a few approaches for engaging today’s students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines colleges and how their use of career counseling. Particular focus is given to how career counseling must adapt to changes in employment including freelancing and the "gig economy." Additional topics discussed include how automation and artificial intelligence might replace white-collar jobs in the future, educational services such as Lynda.com, and the Possibility Project and Denison University, which focuses upon finding a career and will start in January 2016.

The taxonomy of academic majors that broadened significantly over the past hundred years can no longer keep pace with the churn of knowledge needed to compete in nearly every profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The traditional faculty office, tucked away in a different building, doesn't lend itself to casual conversation after class. But there are spaces that do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the need for schools to develop communication skills rather than software development skills which contribute towards career development.