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College grad rates improve for Chicago high-schoolers
A recent report shows ninth-graders in the Windy City have a better chance of graduating from a four-year college than eight years ago.
By Keith Button • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Proposal would transfer $303M from Pell budget to loan collectors
Retiring Sen. Tom Harkin's proposal has student advocates outraged.
By Keith Button • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Details of UVA's campus safety action plan revealed
UVA President Teresa Sullivan is continuing full-force with efforts to improve campus safety in the wake of a now-questioned Rolling Stone article detailing an alleged sexual assault at the school.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Cornell to use Blackboard's Internet2 Net+ solution
The solutions and services were co-created by Cornell and other Internet2 institutions.
By Keith Button • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Deep Dive
10 ways a Republican-led Congress could impact higher ed in 2015
From financial aid to for-profits, the GOP could potentially make significant changes to higher education in the next year and beyond.
By Keith Button • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Pell guidance issued for juvenile prisoners
The U.S. Department of Education has issued guidance stating that juvenile, county, and local prisoners are eligible for Pell Grants.
By Keith Button • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Columbia law students traumatized by Brown, Garner decisions can postpone exams
Columbia Law School's dean says the recent grand jury decisions failing to indict police officers who killed unarmed black men have 'shaken the faith' of some students.
By Keith Button • Dec. 9, 2014 -
Details of Rolling Stone campus rape story called into question
Reporting by the Washington Post shows that several important details in the exposé of an alleged gang rape at UVA seem to be false, and the magazine is backing away from the story.
By Keith Button • Dec. 8, 2014 -
More PhDs have fewer post-grad prospects
U.S. universities are graduating more recipients of doctoral degrees, but those doctors are facing worse post-graduation employment and study prospects.
By Keith Button • Dec. 8, 2014 -
NSF grant helps MIT teach NYC high school students through data collection
A National Science Foundation grant is helping high school students learn about data analysis and civic engagement.
By Keith Button • Dec. 8, 2014 -
U. of Illinois rehires former member of Symbionese Liberation Army
Adjunct James Kilgore will teach a course at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March.
By Keith Button • Dec. 8, 2014 -
Apollo Education Group expands to Brazil
Along with the expansion, the for-profit college provider is starting a venture capital fund.
By Keith Button • Dec. 8, 2014 -
Presidents, ed tech, and MOOCs: The week's most read education news
Get caught up on the new big data MOOCs from BerkeleyX, higher ed presidents to watch in 2015, and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Napolitano: Grad schools need advocates
The University of California System's president told college administrators Thursday that they need to take the case for why graduate schools need more support directly to lawmakers.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Deep Dive
13 higher ed tech tools and approaches to watch in 2015
Recent awards and listings have raised the profile of a wide range of higher ed technology companies and institutional ed tech efforts.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Survey: College loan debt worries current students
A survey of current college students show that most believe student loan debt will follow them for decades.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
How do prospective students in China see the U.S.?
Conversations with college students in China reveal a belief in stereotypes about the U.S., but a willingness to consider alternative viewpoints.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
MOOC student data privacy debatable
Because most people who take massive open online courses are technically not students in the eyes of the U.S. Department of Education, the privacy of their data is not legally protected.
By Keith Button • Dec. 5, 2014 -
Deep Dive
6 higher ed presidents to watch in 2015
Over the next year, these administrators could set new standards for dealing with everything from cheating scandals and campus sex assault to questions about leadership backgrounds.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 4, 2014 -
U of Maine System cuts coal investments
Only $500,000 of the university system’s $9.8 million in fossil fuel investments will be affected by the coal divestment.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
How much did the Salaita controversy damage the U. of Illinois?
Department heads at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have written a letter describing the damage done by the decision to rescind a job offer over controversial tweets against Israel.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
U. of Oregon facing grad teaching assistant strike
The strike is the first at the school since 1995.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
Promises abound from White House higher ed summit
Participants in the Obama administration's second higher education summit have made more than 500 commitments to improve higher ed, mainly for low-income or prospective students.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
Center for American Progress makes case for boosting public college funding
A new report from the organization presents a proposal to make public colleges and universities more accessible to low- and middle-income students.
By Keith Button • Dec. 4, 2014 -
UT-Austin loses 100 human brains
As of right now, no one is entirely sure what happened to the collection of brains that included UT-Austin sniper Charles Whitman.
By Roger Riddell • Dec. 3, 2014
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