Policy & Legal: Page 137
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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 -
SUNY adopts comprehensive sex assault policy
The State University of New York has issued what is described as the nation's most comprehensive higher ed sexual assault policy.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
NYU in hot water again for overseas working conditions
Working conditions for construction laborers on the New York University outpost in Shanghai were not monitored as promised.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
California legislators confront proposed UC tuition hike
Lawmakers are offering proposals of their own to prevent, or at least soften the blow, of University of California President Janet Napolitano's proposed 5% per year tuition hike.
By Keith Button • Dec. 3, 2014 -
UVA's Sullivan outlines sex assault plan
The University of Virginia has come under fire in recent weeks for a sexual assault problem publicized in a Rolling Stone article.
By Keith Button • Dec. 2, 2014 -
Swarthmore reverses, admits questionable judicial board conduct
The institution all but admitted wrongdoing for the expulsion of a male student accused of sexual assault.
By Keith Button • Dec. 1, 2014 -
UVA board tries to address sex assault
The university's board passed a zero-tolerance policy on sexual assault, but the details about what that means have yet to be worked out.
By Keith Button • Nov. 26, 2014 -
Eckerd president's 'drink less' sex assault advice latest to stir controversy
An email to students from Eckerd College President Donald Eastman III was seen by some as engaging in victim-blaming.
By Keith Button • Nov. 26, 2014 -
Lincoln U's Jennings resigns following controversial sex assault comments
Just weeks after comments about sexual assault from a women's convocation were posted to YouTube, Robert Jennings has resigned.
By Keith Button • Nov. 25, 2014 -
New Jersey's Kean University criticized over $219K table
The public university reportedly authorized spending up to $270,000 for the conference table.
By Keith Button • Nov. 25, 2014 -
Analysts predict upswing in for-profit college enrollment
The sector's enrollment declines could reverse by 2016.
By Keith Button • Nov. 25, 2014 -
Only North Dakota and Alaska boosted higher ed spending from 2008
The two states are the only ones where higher ed spending didn't slow down since the beginning of the Great Recession.
By Keith Button • Nov. 25, 2014 -
Frats suspended at UVA amid Rolling Stone rape story controversy
The article depicted a pattern of sexual assaults orchestrated by fraternity culture, prompting a suspension in effect until January.
By Keith Button • Nov. 24, 2014 -
College discipline often goes easy on violent crimes
An investigation turned up many examples where college student disciplinary boards handed out light punishment for violent crimes.
By Keith Button • Nov. 24, 2014 -
Accreditor questions UNC over paper-classes scandal
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on College is calling Chapel Hill to task for its handling of the academic scandal.
By Keith Button • Nov. 24, 2014 -
Connecticut colleges president, faculty find common ground
The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities System faculty leaders and president met Friday, reaching a handful of agreements.
By Keith Button • Nov. 24, 2014 -
Harkin submits bill to reauthorize Higher Ed Act
The 874-page document has notable support from community colleges.
By Roger Riddell • Nov. 21, 2014 -
Chromebooks and for-profit colleges: The week's most read education news
Get caught up on Corinthian's potential sale of 56 campuses and more right here!
By Roger Riddell • Nov. 21, 2014 -
Advocacy groups oppose proposed Corinthian Colleges sale
Critics of ECMC Group's plan to buy 56 schools from the shuttering for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain say the company is ill-suited to manage higher education institutions.
By Keith Button • Nov. 21, 2014 -
Berkeley students organize against UC tuition hike
An overnight protest occupied Wheeler Hall in reaction to a five-year plan that would hike tuition 5% per year.
By Keith Button • Nov. 21, 2014 -
Harvard sued over fossil fuel investments
Seven students are asking a judge to force the Ivy League institution to cash out of its investments in oil, natural gas, and coal companies.
By Keith Button • Nov. 21, 2014 -
EdX to offer free PD course certificates as part of ConnectED initiative
The MOOC provider already offered student AP test prep courses in K-12, and free certificates will be available for those, as well.
By Roger Riddell • Nov. 20, 2014 -
Marist College must re-do union election, says NLRB
Adjunct faculty had accused administrators of interfering with the initial election in June.
By Keith Button • Nov. 20, 2014 -
56 Corinthian campuses to go nonprofit in acquisition
The nonprofit ECMC Group plans to acquire 56 of the shuttering for-profit college provider's campuses.
By Keith Button • Nov. 20, 2014
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