Montclair State University has thrown a multimillion-dollar lifeline to Bloomfield College, agreeing to provide financial support for the struggling private school to stay open during the 2022-2023 school year as the schools hash out the details of a more permanent arrangement that could include a merger.
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Northern New Mexico College’s (NNMC) presidential search is entering its final stages.
New Jersey City University is facing scrutiny from the state government following a financial collapse that saw a dramatic reversal of fortune with the institution reportedly going from a surplus of $108 million in 2013 to a deficit of $67 million amid plans to expand NJCU’s campus.
Retired university presidents are sometimes still active at the institution that they once led, such as teaching courses as a tenured faculty member.
A sole finalist has been named in the search for Lamar Institute of Technology’s next president.
The North Carolina State Board of Community Colleges held an emergency meeting Wednesday to select an interim president of the state community college system, a day after the current president announced plans to step down.
Concordia University Ann Arbor (CUAA), Ann Arbor, Mich., has received a $1.48 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its physician assistant master’s program.
Scanning the landscape, college and university financial leaders would seem to have plenty to worry about.
“Inflation is going to be really disastrous for higher education,” Griffith said. “(…)The vast majority of the schools don’t have the resources to correct for inflation.”
When the Purdue University Board of Trustees announced their new president earlier this month, they left out some key information: How and why they chose that person.
As colleges face more external pressures, board politics become more complicated, and leadership contracts get more corporatized, presidents on the outs are increasingly getting paid large sums to leave — including the leader of Colorado State University’s main campus, who is earning over $1.5 million to resign two years early.
