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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 -
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As AI continues its forward march in education and the workplace, colleges are grapplling with how best to incorporate the emerging technology into admissions, courrsework and elsewhere
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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