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Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk In its campaign to block the adoption of a new federal rule measuring how colleges prepare students for 'gainful employment,' the for-profit-college industry and its allies have [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Salt Lake City -- As many universities that rank above it in research spending have been slashing budgets, the University of Utah has been rolling out a [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk As research institutions await a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that could determine whether university ownership of patents from taxpayer-financed research is in the public interest, [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Corinthian Colleges Inc.'s decision this winter to raise tuition at dozens of its Everest, Heald, and WyoTech campuses by an average of 12 percent, knowing that most [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk and Alex Richards It is no surprise that student-loan default rates go up the longer they're tracked: Give borrowers more time, and more of them will default. [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Washington -- Universities pushing for the Supreme Court to strengthen the presumption that a 30-year-old law gives them the right to own inventions that arise from billions [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Phoenix -- In the fall of 2009, after closing the books on yet another banner year of enrollment growth, and with its parent company's stock climbing toward [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Washington -- The association representing for-profit colleges is ratcheting up its campaign against the Obama administration's new regulations on student recruiting and other actions by the colleges, [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk London -- Socks designed by a vascular surgeon at University College London that improve circulation for hospital patients and professional soccer players make money for the university. [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk A new rule from the U.S. Department of Education governing the definition of credit hours could be costly to some higher-education providers. For-profit colleges commonly arrange their [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Universities in Russia could soon be adopting American-style innovations like business incubators and spin-off companies to help commercialize their research, thanks to an effort to promote greater [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Plenty of colleges offer cyclists places to lock up their bikes. But an institution will need to do more than buy a few bike racks to qualify [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk How big are the stakes for colleges with a high proportion of students defaulting on their loans? Consider this: Several for-profit colleges recently hired a company that [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk New Orleans -- Southern University at New Orleans is gradually recreating itself. Nearly five years after the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina washed over the sloping 22-acre campus [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk For several years, a cadre of some of the savviest executives in higher education have been practically begging university administrators and trustees for the chance to advise [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley hasn't forgotten about college endowments. And he's not alone. Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk The distress signals are sounding for the liberal arts. Again. Enrollment statistics show that more than half of all undergraduates now choose majors in business, engineering, or [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk The credit crisis and the collapse of the real-estate market have been lousy for homeowners and for those who make their living from land or buildings. But [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk The Inspector General's Office of the U.S. Education Department landed a stinging attack on an accreditor last month, with some potentially far-reaching ramifications, particularly for those trying [...]

WASHINGTON For someone who came into office passionate about public-school issues, Arne Duncan will leave a big imprint on higher education. After nearly seven years as U.S. secretary of education, [...]

AS NEW PROVIDERS enter higher education, concerns about the quality and merits of alternative credentials continue to flare. Traditional higher education has long relied on its voluntary system of accreditation [...]

WASHINGTON This month's loan-forgiveness plan for students who attended Corinthian Colleges' closed campuses will very likely have ramifications that extend to all of higher education. The U.S. Department of Education's [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk A newspaper column that led to a best-selling book this year about the enduring friendship of a group of women from Ames, Iowa, has now spawned a [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Chicago -- When you don't have much money, sometimes the difference between staying in college and dropping out really is a bus fare to campus. Or a [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk Metropolitan State College of Denver is taking the 'never waste a crisis' lesson to heart. The 21,500-student institution received $10-million in federal stimulus money from the Colorado [...]

Byline: Goldie Blumenstyk In a year of unusually high uncertainty over admissions at private colleges, Ithaca College appears to have missed its target by a larger margin than most. Now [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Inventors can be an ungrateful bunch. At Stanford University, Nancy R. Fuller tracks down former professors and graduate students to send them royalty checks for products they [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Will the stock market close on a high note tomorrow, the last day of the fiscal year for most colleges? Will that last big gift come in [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK The best piece of college marketing this year is a television ad that could easily be taken as a fingers-flapping, thumb at the nose to centuries of [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK A newly compiled analysis by the U.S. Department of Education and obtained by The Chronicle shows that 114 private nonprofit degree-granting colleges were in such fragile financial [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK 'It's not just what you're buying, it's what you're buying into.' That's the takeaway in a new Starbucks ad campaign, which offers as much a lesson to [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Moody's Investors Service has outlined six factors that it will consider in determining whether it downgrades the credit ratings of hundreds of colleges whose $150-billion in debt [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK The giant college company that runs ITT Technical Institutes across the country has announced that it was buying the financially struggling Daniel Webster College, in New Hampshire. [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK The organization that calculates the inflation rate for higher education estimates that the Higher Education Price Index for the 2009 fiscal year will be 2.8 percent. While [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK It's different this time. This is not the recession of the early 1990s, not the aftermath of the tech-bubble burst, not the downturn that overtook the American [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Washington -- Legislation that could bring a major overhaul to U.S. patent law -- and perhaps prompt inventors to publish new findings earlier to preserve their intellectual-property [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK By just about every objective measure, the $88-million in debt that Wartburg College has carried since late 2005 poses a risk. The college's debt load -- twice [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Colleges have been using swap contracts to reduce their borrowing costs and keep their debt costs predictable. But changes in the bond market and in interest rates [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK The end of the fiscal year usually isn't a momentous occasion for colleges. But this June 30 could be a day of reckoning many never expected. Colleges [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK Beijing -- In the master-of-law courses he took in a program run jointly here by Temple University and Tsinghua University, Bao Jian studied legal practices he had [...]

Byline: PAUL FAIN, GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK, and LIBBY SANDER Despite its veneer of cooperation, higher education is a competitive industry, where resource sharing is eyed warily. But the recession is chipping [...]

Byline: GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK An analysis of spending trends that is designed to discourage policy makers' 'myopic focus' on finding new revenue rather than reining in spending suggests that the model [...]