By Colleen Flaherty. When one scholar's “lame” joke in a crowded elevator was another’s offensive comment, a disciplinary society was asked to adjudicate. Now, a political scientist won't apologize. More...
21 mai 2018
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Oregon's Marylhurst University to Close
By Doug Lederman. Marylhurst University, a Roman Catholic institution located on the outskirts of Portland, Ore., announced Thursday that it would close by the end of the year, after nearly 125 years of operation. More...
Champion for Low-Income Students Gets a Boost Itself
By Doug Lederman. By embedding college advisers in schools with many underrepresented students, College Advising Corps has helped 300,000 enter postsecondary education. It aims to hit 1 million by 2025. More...
Missouri-Columbia Plans to Close 12 Graduate Programs
By Doug Lederman. The University of Missouri's flagship Columbia campus will "inactivate" 12 graduate programs and create a new College of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies as part of a reorganization that follows a yearlong review. More...
Georgia Tech Envisions Research University Education of the Future
By Doug Lederman. The study by the Commission on Creating the Next in Education offers a look at what the research university should be doing in 2040, and it envisions a scenario in which learners and institutions have a lifelong, symbiotic relationship made possible by new credentials, a different approach to advising, and artificial intelligence, among other things. More...
Columbia College (Mo.) Chooses Ed Map for Etextbooks
By Doug Lederman. Columbia College, in Missouri, has selected Ed Map as its provider of digital textbooks for its adult and online education programs. More...
Pioneering College for Adults Struggles in Middle Age
By Doug Lederman. Excelsior College, founded to help adults complete degrees online, staggers after curtailing its biggest program over quality concerns. Administrators say "repositioning" is working, but a more competitive market awaits. More...
Trump Administration Shuts Consumer Agency's Student Loan Arm
By Doug Lederman. The interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a reorganization Wednesday that will eliminate the separate arm that focused on the interests of students and other young Americans. The Office of Students and Young Consumers had actively and aggressively policed the student loan industry and monitored credit card companies and other financial institutions that serve -- or target -- college students and other young people. More...
ABA Panel Moves to End LSAT Requirement
By Scott Jaschik. Law schools would no longer be required to use the Law School Admission Test to be accredited by the American Bar Association under a proposal adopted Friday by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. More...
Michigan State Settles Nassar Claims for $500 Million
By Doug Lederman. University will pay $425 million to current plaintiffs, set aside $75 million for future. More...
