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11 novembre 2016

Life as They Know It Now

HomeBy Colleen Flaherty. Michael Bérubé publishes follow-up to his 1996 book about his son with Down syndrome. Jamie’s now a working adult who’s offered his dad, who has become a leading figure in disability studies, a whole new education. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

The Choice to Study in Canada

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The majority of American students who study in Canada, particularly those at the undergraduate level, do so primarily because of the relatively lower tuition fees of Canadian universities, according to a new report from Universities Canada based on eight focus groups of Americans studying over the northern border. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

A Passport in the Sock Drawer

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. At Generation Study Abroad summit, panelists discuss how to get a more diverse group of students abroad, including students enrolled at minority-serving institutions. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

U.S. Issues Final Guidance on Pathway Programs

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. The Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program published new final policy guidance Friday on pathway programs, defined as programs that include a mix of remedial English language course work and credit-bearing classes for international students who are unable to meet English proficiency requirements for regular admission. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

Indian University's Bumpy Entry Into the U.S.

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Under scrutiny from regulators in Massachusetts, where it hoped to acquire a campus, Amity University focuses its plans for U.S. expansion on just-purchased campus on Long Island. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

Poland Probes Princeton Professor's Holocaust Claims

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Poland’s right-wing government has extended an investigation into a Princeton University-based Holocaust scholar who made the controversial claim that Poles killed more Jews than Germans during World War II, the Associated Press reported. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

ACT Moves Testing in South Korea to Single Site

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. ACT is closing all of its 32 existing test centers in South Korea for the remainder of the academic year and shifting all testing in the country to a single site to be monitored directly by ACT staff from the U.S. in response to what the nonprofit college entrance test provider described as “repeated test material breaches” in the country. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

'Ideas Are Not Crimes'

HomeBy Elizabeth Redden. Report from Scholars at Risk analyzes more than 150 instances of attacks on higher education, including campus attacks, targeted killings, prosecutions and violence against student protestors. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

Trump Win Opens Questions for Colleges’ Books

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. Worries about stock market turmoil subsided in the two days since Donald Trump unexpectedly won the presidential election, but many questions still remain about what Tuesday’s results mean for college and university finances. Read more...

11 novembre 2016

New Report on Remediation in Community Colleges

HomeBy Ashley A. Smith. A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that the majority of students entering the state's community colleges are placed in remedial courses and most of them never move on to earn a degree, certificate or transfer. Read more...

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