Canalblog
Suivre ce blog Administration + Créer mon blog
Formation Continue du Supérieur
27 novembre 2019

Bipartisan Movement in Washington

HomeBy Paul Fain. The powerful Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate’s education committee is backing a bipartisan bill aimed at for-profit colleges and their recruiting of students who are veterans of the U.S. military. More...

27 novembre 2019

Moody's on Mass. College Closure Law

HomeBy Paul Fain. A new Massachusetts law requires increased financial disclosures for the state's colleges. It also boosts state regulators' authority to monitor colleges' financial strength and requires those that are deemed at risk to file contingency plans for their students. More...

27 novembre 2019

Study on Campus Carry Legislation

HomeBy Paul Fain. A new study analyzes the conditions that can contribute to the passage of campus carry legislation. For example, it found that "open shooter incidents" anywhere within a state positively influence the introduction of these bills. More...

27 novembre 2019

IBM Looks Beyond the College Degree

HomeBy Paul Fain. The tech company is looking for different ways to fill “new-collar” jobs in its 360,000-employee workforce by adding digital badges and apprenticeships and deepening partnerships with community colleges. More...

27 novembre 2019

College Reopens After Closing Over Threats

HomeBy Paul Fain. Elmhurst College, a private institution located near Chicago, reopened Wednesday after being shut down for two days over concerns about several campus episodes of vandalism "involving hate messaging and non-specific threats," the college announced. More...

27 novembre 2019

University of Michigan Drops Bias Response Team

HomeBy Paul Fain. The University of Michigan will not reinstate its bias response team as part of a settlement with a nonprofit group that had argued that the team threatened free speech on campus, MLive reported. The settlement comes a month after a federal appeals court backed the lawsuit from Speech First, a civil liberties-focused organization based in Washington. More...

27 novembre 2019

University of La Verne Mulls Closure of Law School

HomeBy Paul FainThe University of La Verne may close its law school, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reported. The governing board for the private university, which is located in Southern California, will consider the matter next month. In the meantime, a group of nine university faculty members and administrators is investigating the law school's viability and looking at its finances, according to the newspaper. More...

27 novembre 2019

Wayne State Trustees Push Back on Free College

HomeBy Paul Fain. Three members of Wayne State University's governing board are criticizing the university's president over a free tuition plan Wayne State rolled out last week. They said M. Roy Wilson didn't brief the board about the plan until the last minute and overstepped his authority, according the Detroit Free Press. More...

27 novembre 2019

Some College, No Degree

HomeBy Paul Fain. Report features broad new data on 36 million Americans who left college without a credential, including 3.8 million who returned to college in the last five years, nearly one million of whom completed. More...

27 novembre 2019

New Rules on Accreditation and State Authorization

HomeBy Paul Fain. Trump administration calls its final rules on accreditation and state approval of online providers a rightsizing of bureaucracy that protects students. Consumer advocates and Democrats see an unraveling of federal oversight. More...

Newsletter
49 abonnés
Visiteurs
Depuis la création 2 784 310
Formation Continue du Supérieur
Archives