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27 mai 2018

Predatory colleges, freed to fleece students

Try as they might, the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress cannot disguise that they continue to do the bidding of the for-profit college industry, which has saddled working-class students — including veterans — with crushing debt while providing useless degrees, or no degrees at all. More...

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27 mai 2018

A new era of protest is energizing HBCUs. But there are challenges

It was a chilly Friday afternoon in early February, and a group of young activists huddled around a table inside a modern, earthy café in Atlanta’s West End neighborhood, planning their next moves. More...

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27 mai 2018

Here's how much you'll pay to go to Va. colleges next year

The average tuition and mandatory fees increase for Virginia undergraduate students at state schools was 5.4 percent last year, up from the 2016-17 average increase of 4.6 percent. More...

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27 mai 2018

Colleges bend the rules for more students, give them extra help

As many as one in four students at some elite U.S. colleges are now classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety, entitling them to a widening array of special accommodations like longer time to take exams. More...

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27 mai 2018

Keeping Hope alive and well

When we first learned of Hope International University’s (HIU) strategic partnership with Nebraska Christian College (NCC), we were skeptical to say the least. Indeed, we can well imagine that some folks within and beyond the HIU and NCC communities thought that the proposed transaction was misguided. More...

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26 mai 2018

Why I'm Stubbornly Optimistic About the Future of Small Colleges

By Joshua Kim. Last week we learned that yet another small college, Oregon's Marylhurst University, is closing. More...

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26 mai 2018

A Review of 'What School Could Be'

By John Warner. Where Bill Gates puts his faith (and his money) behind top-down initiatives like the Common Core State Standards and is now on to algorithmic instruction via “personalized learning,”[1] Dintersmith, author of What School Could Be: Insights and Inspiration From Teachers Across America is focused at the community, school, and classroom level. More...

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26 mai 2018

The Evolution of the Student Body Continues

By Georgia Nugent. Throughout their history, America’s colleges and universities have changed, in response to changes in the nation’s demographics, social mores, economic conditions, and workforce needs. Today, small, independent institutions are changing rapidly, not only in the curricula they offer but in the student populations they serve. Yet the perception that small, private colleges and universities enroll only an elite population remains a stereotype, even though it is demonstrably false. More...

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26 mai 2018

Enrollment Declines Steepest in Midwest and Northeast

By Paul Fain. Overall college enrollments continue to slide, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit that tracks 97 percent of students who attend degree-granting institutions that are eligible to receive federal financial aid. More...

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26 mai 2018

New Policy Group Adds Advocacy Panel

By Paul Fain. Higher Learning Advocates is a bipartisan group focused on federal policy that formed last year. This week it added a "network" of higher education leaders who it says will contribute to federal policy discussions, with a focus on student success. More...

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