In 2016, Louisiana legislators sought to tackle this issue through the Know Before You Build Act, which requires trustees at state universities to publicize building utilization reports by day of week and time of...
When the late Clayton Christensen prophesied in 2011 that disruptive innovation would cause half of America’s colleges and universities to merge or close within 15 years, higher education leaders and associations listened but largely...
In 2015, colleges and universities in the U.S. spent a record $11.5 billion on construction for 21 million square feet of new space. A Boston architect soberly calculated: “The space per student has in some...
Shortly after joining ACTA in the summer of 2017, I edited a blog about the University of Akron (UA) that left me feeling positively hopeful about that public research university. Having just moved to...
Dive Brief State officials in New Mexico are weighing the benefits of reorganization or consolidation of the state’s 31 public colleges and universities, which presently operate under 21 governing boards. The inquisition comes...
Desperate times call for desperate measures. So it was in June, when the University of California–Berkeley created Ideaction, a website for friends of Cal to pitch their money-raising ideas for the university. Suggestions have rolled...
Universities in the United States are the best in the world, but the cost of attending them is rising faster than the cost of almost anything else. Professors blame administrative bloat, administrators blame a decline in...
Virginia State University (VSU) was the first fully-public historically black university in the United States. It would a terrible shame to see such a historically important university disappear from the Commonwealth. Yet, thanks to...
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