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How can colleges assess their own well-being initiatives?

Butler University recently launched a survey to capture how well students think their institutions support holistic health. Other colleges can use it.

Tyson Foods adds free degrees, certificates to suite of learning benefits

The addition expands a suite of learning benefits that already included free ESL, GED and other classes for many front-line employees.

Education Department plans to issue Title IX proposal in May, not April as expected

Advocates for sexual assault survivors had pressed the agency to speed up its timeline for publishing the highly anticipated draft rule.

Higher ed faces shrinking workforce and pay increases outpaced by inflation

Trends have been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new workforce survey for 2021-22 from CUPA-HR.

Advisers for Mississippi public college president searches are now secret. They won't even know each other.

New policy change by the state's governing board makes the names of these group members confidential, even between each other.

3 in 4 think race shouldn't factor into college admissions decisions, survey finds

Roughly a third of adults favor standardized test scores, according to Pew survey examining public perception of college admissions factors.

University of Arizona Global Campus regains access to GI Bill benefits

The online college can once again offer military education benefits after they lapsed for about three weeks because of agency delays.

Ohio broadens $2,000 grant seeking to reenroll stopped-out students

About 1.5 million state residents completed some college without earning a credential. The newly permanent grant program seeks to bring some back.

Ed Dept expands Second Chance Pell program for third time

Addition of 73 colleges means 200 can now participate with grants for students in prison.

Western Kentucky U's general counsel for over 2 decades sues over termination

Deborah Wilkins says officials retaliated against her after she reported top-ranking administrators for policy violations.

Marymount California University to shut down following merger attempt

Catholic institution says it will close permanently after effort to join Florida-based Saint Leo University failed.

How many colleges and universities have closed since 2016?

Marymount California University is the sixth institution on our list to close in the state since 2016.

Updated April 6, 2022

Consumer law watchdog: Transcript withholding can harm college students

The CFPB said it would start looking into academic transcript holds, following a call from Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to end the practice.

The humanities are the missing factor in tackling America's free speech problem

The humanities offer tools to approach topics with openness, tolerance and curiosity, write a dean and a real estate developer.

Progress on academic pay equity between genders stalls, report finds

The gap between male and female professors' pay has barely moved since 2010–11, according to AAUP.

Updated April 29, 2022

A $400K settlement over misgendering a trans student could foreshadow wave of Title IX clashes

A Shawnee State University faculty member had sued the Ohio public institution over disciplinary action officials took against him.

How Valerie Ashby plans to succeed outsized figure Freeman Hrabowski as head of UMBC

President-in-waiting doesn't feel pressure to mirror her predecessor and speaks highly of UMBC's investment in excellence through diversity.

Saint Leo and Marymount California universities abandon merger plan

The consolidation of the two Catholic institutions hit a roadblock after an accreditor declined to endorse it last year.

Admissions association will help lead test-optional enrollment study

A $1.4 million Gates Foundation grant will fund a NACAC-driven project examining enrollment patterns at 150 four-year colleges. 

Report can't determine why thousands of student loans hadn't been forgiven under Income-Driven Repayment

Just 157 loans were forgiven as Income-Driven Repayment was hurt by communication and data failures, the Government Accountability Office found.

Florida bid to change public colleges' accreditors, add post-tenure review becomes law

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Tuesday setting up a potential showdown with federal rules governing accrediting agencies.

Updated April 22, 2022

Stress prompts 76% of 4-year college students to weigh leaving, survey finds

The results from a Gallup and Lumina Foundation poll should be a call to action for higher education leaders, one expert said.

OER adoption has the power to give students agency, report argues

Instructors using open education resources increased student choice in assignments and made courses more inclusive, Achieving the Dream found.

Ed Dept reviews payments for student loan forgiveness to fix 'forbearance steering'

Changes mean 40,000 borrowers will see their loans forgiven and 3.6 million will have past payments count toward debt clearance, officials said Tuesday.

Ombuds offer colleges conflict resolution in a contentious time

Ombudspeople provide employees with resources outside of the traditional HR hierarchy and improve workplace health, advocates say.