Policy & Legal: Page 136
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Wisconsin sues Corinthian Colleges
The shuttering for-profit is accused in a lawsuit of enticing prospective students in Milwaukee with inflated job placement claims and externships that didn't exist or had nothing to do with the courses of study.
By Keith Button • Oct. 29, 2014 -
Deep Dive
9 recommendations for closing higher ed's workplace skills gap
A report by New America senior analyst Mary Alice McCarthy lays down the problems with higher education's approach to preparing students for careers.
By Keith Button • Oct. 29, 2014 -
Columbia to pay $9M for false AIDS work claims
The institution reached a settlement with the U.S. Attorney's office, admitting wrongdoing and agreeing to pay the penalty for submitting claims for federal money for research that wasn't done.
By Keith Button • Oct. 29, 2014 -
Stanford and Dartmouth apologize for voting experiment
A political science experiment has the prestigious institutions in hot water with Montana state officials.
By Keith Button • Oct. 29, 2014 -
Courtroom testimony: City College of San Francisco accreditor skewed report
The president of the accrediting commission trying to shut down the college edited favorable remarks out of a report and admits the college wasn't allowed enough time to respond to new concerns.
By Keith Button • Oct. 29, 2014 -
MIT survey: 17% of respondents sexually assaulted
According to the survey, only 5% reported the assault to the school.
By Keith Button • Oct. 28, 2014 -
Bloomberg-led coalition wants to help low-income students graduate college
Around 130 counselors and 4,000 college students acting as part-time advisers will encourage lower-income, high-performing students to apply at colleges with six-year grad rates of 70% or better.
By Keith Button • Oct. 28, 2014 -
Most Boston colleges not paying voluntary tax amounts
A Boston Globe analysis shows 15 of 19 city colleges and universities aren't making the payments in lieu of property taxes that city officials say the schools agreed to pay in 2011.
By Keith Button • Oct. 28, 2014 -
U of Southern Maine cuts two more programs
The University of Southern Maine is cutting two programs as it tries to close a $16 million budget gap.
By Keith Button • Oct. 27, 2014 -
Report proposes joint fed-state higher ed funding
The Center for American Progress is proposing that the federal government encourage states to invest in public colleges and universities through a matching funding program-- with strings attached.
By Keith Button • Oct. 27, 2014 -
New York colleges drop broad criminal background questions
Three institutions of higher education have signed agreements with the state's attorney general to stop asking applicants broad questions about their arrest and conviction histories.
By Keith Button • Oct. 27, 2014 -
U of Nebraska alcohol death leads to four arrests, fraternity suspension
The arrests come two months after a freshman fraternity member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln died from drinking too much alcohol.
By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014 -
Oklahoma band director issue resolved, Ohio State still facing its own
The University of Oklahoma's marching band director resigned in response to leadership complaints, while Ohio State filed a response to its fired band director's lawsuit.
By Keith Button • Oct. 24, 2014 -
Deep Dive
These 6 incidents pitted faculties against their administrations
Votes of no confidence and other measures have seen varying degrees of success when faculty express their displeasure with campus leadership.
By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014 -
Loopholes give campus rapists clean slate with transfer
Many higher ed sexual assault policies don't require institutions to inform other colleges and universities, or the police, about cases when the accused student transfers.
By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014 -
Heavy presence for Ohio colleges on student loan default lists
According to Quartz, no state has more schools with larger increases in three-year student loan defaults.
By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014 -
RTI International's new tool tracks community college success
The Completion Arch analyzes federal and state data on community colleges to get a better understanding of how students progress and succeed.
By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014 -
Education Dept easing PLUS loan credit requirements
The new standards will take effect at the end of March 2015.
By Keith Button • Oct. 23, 2014 -
Over 3,000 students across two decades mixed up in UNC cheating scandal
The latest investigation conducted by a former Justice Department official reveals a wider-ranging fraud than prior probes.
By Roger Riddell • Oct. 22, 2014 -
Oklahoma president hears out marching band after $20K in critical ads
Much of the band's complaints were with its leadership and a rule forbidding them to publicly criticize it.
By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014 -
UNC-Greensboro chancellor says retirement unrelated to employee arrests
Controversy in the university's public relations office under leadership she appointed reportedly has nothing to do with Linda Brady's exit.
By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014 -
Ebola forces tough travel choices for campus administrators
Administrators are balancing campus health and safety with allowing faculty and students access to medical and humanitarian opportunities in affected West African countries.
By Keith Button • Oct. 22, 2014 -
Burlington College selling lakefront property to pay down debt
To help pay down $11.4 million in debt, the Vermont college is proposing a sale of 25 of the 32 acres it bought in 2010.
By Keith Button • Oct. 21, 2014 -
Higher ed hits the campaign trail
Democratic Congressional candidates are putting higher education issues in the spotlight against their 2014 mid-term opponents.
By Keith Button • Oct. 21, 2014 -
Pumpkin festival riot at NH's Keene State injures 26
Photos and videos are under review, and the college's president says students involved may be expelled.
By Keith Button • Oct. 20, 2014
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