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More Than a Name
By Marjorie Valbrun. The newly renamed University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is the latest institution to be rebranded with the Carey name since receiving a multimillion-dollar donation from the W. P. Carey Foundation. Some students and alumni aren't happy about it. More...
No More 'At-Risk' Students in California
By Lindsay McKenzie. California education law will now refer to those with economic or social challenges as "at-promise" students. Advocates hope the impact will be more than just a semantic shift. More...
Organized Crime Scholar Accused of Laundering Millions
By Colleen Flaherty. A professor of international studies at the University of Miami who studies drug trafficking and organized crime in the Americas is charged with laundering money from Venezuela, according to Bloomberg. More...
Call for University of Texas San Antonio to Embrace Hispanic-Serving Mission
By Colleen Flaherty. A group of Hispanic faculty members and administrators at the University of Texas at San Antonio says that the institution does not live up to and has not embraced its identity as a Hispanic-serving institution. A petition by La Raza Faculty and Administrator Association urges the university to become a “Hispanic-thriving institution” by making various changes. More...
Slimmed-Down Gen Ed
By Colleen Flaherty. Facing internal and external pressures to streamline the general education curriculum, Wichita State University’s Faculty Senate approved an amended proposal to trim the institution’s program from 42 to 36 credits. The original proposal was 33 credits -- just shy of the Higher Learning Commission’s 30-credit minimum (with some qualifications) for gen ed programs. More...
Purdue AAUP Objects to New IP Standard
By Colleen Flaherty. Purdue University’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors this week released a statement against the institution’s recently updated intellectual property policy. More...
Students Leave BYU Idaho Over Medicaid
By Elin Johnson. Brigham Young University in Idaho is seeing its students leave after it decided to not allow students to enroll in classes if their only form of health insurance is Medicaid, reported Fox 13. More...