Coding boot camps promise to launch tech careers
Looking for a career change, Ken Shimizu decided he wanted to be a software developer, but he didn't want to go back to college to study computer ...
Proposed compact offers online ed common market
A proposed compact among the states unveiled by educational organizations and state officials Thursday would create a kind of common market for online ...

Sheriff: Knife attack at Texas college was random
A man accused of stabbing more than a dozen people at a suburban Houston community college chose his victims at random, authorities said Wednesday, ...
Air Force targets fuel, flight to find savings
The Air Force is taking aim at its big costs of fuel and flight this week, temporarily halting training operations for 12 active duty fighter and ...

Headlines revive memories of 80s economics
Believers hailed its reduced tax rates and deregulation as springboards for economic miracles under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and ...

Rutgers to look deeper at problems with coach
Rutgers University is pledging to get to the bottom of how a basketball coach who kicked and shoved players and used gay slurs as he yelled at them ...

Rutgers reviewing all sports practice videos
Rutgers officials are scrutinizing practice videos of all sports to see if any coach engaged in behavior like the type that cost men's basketball ...
Rutgers names Carl Kirschner interim AD again
Rutgers is turning to former dean Carl Kirschner to run its athletic department amid the basketball scandal that led to the firing of coach Mike Rice ...

Pitino promises fun, fast game at Minnesota
Richard Pitino might not have been the first choice by Minnesota to replace Tubby Smith, and questions about favoritism could follow him the rest of ...

As Rutgers sets to repair image, AD's job in limbo
It seemed a perfect fit when Tim Pernetti was hired as athletic director at Rutgers in April 2009. A New Jersey native who played tight end for the ...

More Rutgers faculty seek firings in coach case
The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder, a day after men's basketball coach Mike Rice ...

Guide to the firing of Rutgers' basketball coach
Rutgers University fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice this week after the public airing of video showing him berating players. An at-a-glance look ...

Rutgers fires coach Mike Rice after video release
Fueled by outrage from even the governor when the video went public, Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after deciding it didn't ...

Reaction to Rice video has Rutgers reconsidering
Rutgers officials had already seen the video showing coach Mike Rice shoving, grabbing and throwing basketballs at players during practice and yelling ...

Feds: Man stole US cancer data to study in China
When three vials of a possible cancer-fighting compound disappeared recently from a professor's desk at the Medical College of Wisconsin, suspicion ...

Fulmer helps restart football at East Tenn. State
Former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer is returning to college football to help restart the program at East Tennessee State. Fulmer, 62, will serve as ...

Steve Alford takes over as UCLA basketball coach
Steve Alford walked into Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday for the first time since the 1984 Summer Olympics, took his place under the 11 national ...
Egyptian students protest mass food poisoning case
Hundreds of Egyptian students angered by a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a Cairo university stormed on Tuesday the offices of the country's top ...

Congressional inaction could cost college students
Congressional inaction could end up costing college students an extra $5,000 on their new loans. The rate for subsidized Stafford loans is set to ...
Neither party has cash for student loan rate fix
Incoming college freshmen could end up paying $5,000 more for the same student loans their older siblings have if Congress doesn't stop interest rates ...

Northwestern hires Collins as coach
Northwestern hired longtime Duke assistant Chris Collins on Tuesday night to replace the fired Bill Carmody, hoping he can finally lead the Wildcats ...

David Petraeus apologizes for conduct, affair
David Petraeus apologized Tuesday night to an audience of veterans for the conduct that led to his resignation as head of the CIA following the ...

NJ professor's quixotic quest to be Iran president
The man who wants to be the next president of Iran sits in a hotel lobby, steps from his office and thousands of miles away from the country he wants ...

Obama calls for April debate on immigration bill
President Barack Obama challenged Congress Monday to "finish the job" of finalizing legislation aimed at overhauling the nation's immigration system.

High court takes on a new affirmative action case
The Supreme Court's decision to hear a new case from Michigan on the politically charged issue of affirmative action offers an intriguing hint that ...