John Garvey has obviously been studying the trends: the new president of Catholic University of America announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Monday that students at the school would go back to living in same-sex dorms this fall. more ›

Less than 24 hours after Maryland defeated Navy in the Crab Bowl Classic, the University unveiled former Army athletic director Kevin Anderson as the new athletic director in College Park. Anderson was selected late last week after a 17-person search committee deliberated over three finalists that also included University of Connecticut athletic director (and Maryland alumnus) Jeff Hathaway and University of Buffalo athletic director Warde Manuel. more ›

The University of Maryland will name University of Iowa provost Wallace D. Loh as its new president according to the Washington Post. The University had been actively searching for a new president after C.D. Mote announced he would be retiring after a 12-year tenure in College Park. more ›

On Monday, while reporting on a decision by George Washington University to establish a separate School of Nursing, I wrote that it was interesting news because nurses continue to be in high demand, even in the current recession. But reader Brian Schuh, currently a nursing student at Georgetown, emailed to take to me task, citing a Baltimore Business Journal story from last year that refutes that assertion. more ›

In these recessionary times, nurses are still in high demand, so it's a significant development that George Washington University has announced plans to establish a separate School of Nursing, as the Washington Business Journal reported on Friday. more ›

Southeastern University, which has been an institution with an incredibly murky future since losing its accreditation last August, has finalized a long-negotiated deal with the Graduate School to reopen as a private institution specializing in continuing education. Southeastern's new overlords will likely use the name and campus to offer a broader mission, while trying to maintain at least some of the utility that the university had previously provided to District residents and international students. One big issue: the Graduate School doesn't currently hold accreditation rights, so Southeastern -- who had to turn away approximately 300 students last fall as it went under -- will be sitting in that transitional place between career advancement college and degree-awarding university, probably for some time. Similarly, the confusion about why Southeastern University is located in Southwest D.C. will, like the domestication of the dog, continue unabated. more ›

Talk about screw-ups. About 200 students who had applied for early decision admission to George Washington University received an email last week that welcomed them to the Class of 2014 -- except they had all actually been rejected from the school. The story was first reported by the GW Hatchet. more ›

The American Institute for Economic Research put out its 2009-2010 college destination rankings today (hat tip to the Post), and D.C. was named fourth most desirable for college students on a list of large metropolitan areas in the country, ranked behind only New York, San Francisco and Boston. The news that D.C. is a top college destination comes as no big surprise to us. Not only does the area have a large number of desirable universities and a high percentage of college students compared to the overall population, it also has a large number desirable post-college jobs, making the city quite frankly (in our minds) a smarter choice than places like San Francisco or New York this particular year. more ›

Virgil Griffith has a lot of time on his hands. A lot. more ›