State weighs changes that would let struggling private colleges team up with out-of-state institutions. New York is poised to make it easier for its private nonprofit colleges to merge with institutions in other states. Some higher ed experts describe the proposal as a no-brainer at a time when demographic changes are taking their toll on small, nonwealthy colleges nationally. But others say the changes could bring new competition into an already cutthroat market.
Despite a number of financial and political challenges, many college presidents are optimistic about their own campuses, but less so about the state of higher education. College leaders across the U.S. are confident about their institution's finances, worried about waning public confidence in higher education and the upcoming presidential election, and ambivalent about artificial intelligence, the latest Inside Higher Ed survey of College and University Presidents shows.
The N.C. Supreme Court justices hear oral arguments this week in a politically charged case that could end up determining who controls North Carolina's government education system, how money is allocated for it, and what is taught to North Carolina's children.
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