The Alabama School of Healthcare Sciences Foundation Board has announced that Birmingham-based construction company, Brasfield and Gorrie, has been selected to build the new ASHS campus in Demopolis. According to leadership within the organization, the general contractor is expected to…
HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. (Warren County) — Centenary University has received an $8,500 grant from Atlantic Health’s Hackettstown Medical Center Community Advisory Board to support a campus initiative focused on crisis awareness and responder education. The funding will benefit Centenary CARES, which stands for Crisis…
Subramanian Iyer, an Indian American professor at University of New Mexico’s James & Gail Ellis School of Business, has been named as associate dean of the school for student experience and success. As part of leadership changes, associate professor Nazrul Islam…
Higher education needs a new planning model that matches today’s pace of change. Strategic planning in higher education traditionally consumes two academic years, involving committees, campus forums and multiple drafts before any action is taken. This approach builds legitimacy, fosters…
Too many are pursuing degrees in biological sciences and IT, with shortages in business and engineering despite high employer demand, study finds. By Georgia Luckhurst for Times Higher Education Engineering is among the fields where there are more jobs than…
Should wealthy private universities set aside a portion of their largess for their two-year peers? Lane Glenn, the president of Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts (and a former colleague), has asked a great question: What would it look like…
By Susan H. Greenberg Georgetown (above) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham accepted invitations to become part of the AAU. Georgetown University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have joined the Association of American Universities, bringing the organization’s membership…
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has backed a call to shut down business schools, agreeing with an argument made by University of Cambridge Judge Business School professor Chris Marquis in an opinion article published in The New York Times (NYT). Sharing…
Stanford continues to restrict recording at faculty meetings Throughout the Faculty Senate’s 59-year history, recording during meetings has not been allowed, according to Adrienne Emory, associate academic secretary of the Senate. However, the policy is neither found in the Senate’s…
Complex problems don’t tend to sit neatly within academic disciplines. Climate change solutions, for example, won’t come solely from environmental scientists. Engineering, technology, architecture, economics, politics, law – even sociology and psychology, arts and humanities – will all have to pull their…
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