avril 2017

By Scott Jaschik. Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has signed into law a bill that permits religious groups at public colleges and universities to discriminate against people whose views or identities differ with their beliefs. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. President Trump will deliver the commencement address at Liberty University this year. Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty's president, was a key backer of Trump during last year's campaign. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Robert S. Eitel is working as a special assistant for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos while he is on unpaid leave as vice president for regulatory legal services at Bridgepoint Education Inc., The New York Times reported. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. A new report on students' college searches and social media notes the importance of search-and-review sites, where colleges are included (sometimes based on fees they pay) with information that may or may not reflect what colleges would put in front of prospective students. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. When college admissions officers have more information about the high schools attended by low-income applicants, those applicants are more likely to be admitted, according to a study published in the new issue of Educational Researcher (abstract available here). Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Just a week after California legislators unveiled a plan to provide debt-free public higher education, a legislator has proposed a new way to do so. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The next decade will see a shortage of between 40,800 and 104,900 doctors, according to data released Tuesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Proposals would keep Pell level, but cut work-study and TRIO and eliminate SEOG. In science, president would make massive cuts to NIH and research at Energy Department. And budget formally seeks to kill NEH and AmeriCorps. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. A majority of the most talented young scientists -- measured as finalists in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, a competition for high school students called the "Junior Nobel" -- are the children of immigrants, according to an analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Professors have come to know that football and basketball coaches' salaries at big-time athletic institutions will be stratospheric compared to what faculty members earn. But The Washington Post reported on growth in pay for those who coach nonrevenue sports -- growth that takes them beyond what professors and most administrators earn. Read more...