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5 juillet 2019

House Lawmakers Introduce Short-Term Pell Bill

By Andrew Kreighbaum. A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would expand Pell Grant eligibility to higher ed programs as short as eight weeks. More...

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5 juillet 2019

DeVos Calls for Making 'Second Chance Pell' Permanent

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called for making the Second Chance Pell experiment permanent Tuesday in remarks at a commencement ceremony for Tulsa Community College's prison education program. More...

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5 juillet 2019

States Wade Into Title IX Debate

By Andrew Kreighbaum. In departure from Trump administration's approach, Texas Legislature votes to require college officials to report campus sexual misconduct or face criminal penalties. But civil libertarians and some survivor advocates criticize the legislation. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Klobuchar Releases Plan for First 100 Days

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat seeking her party's presidential nomination, promised Tuesday to restore Obama-era higher education rules and beef up staffing at the Education Department as part of a list of policies she would pursue in her first 100 days as president. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Few Students of Defunct For-Profit Chains Have Transferred

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Just 1 percent of students enrolled at Dream Center-operated institutions at the time of their closure earlier this year have successfully transferred elsewhere, according to data shared with Democratic lawmakers by the Department of Education. More...

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5 juillet 2019

California Legislation Targeting For-Profits Progresses

By Greg Toppo. California moves toward creating the strictest regulatory landscape for for-profit colleges in the U.S., but proposed legislation has already been weakened. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Mandatory Financial Literacy Courses?

By Colleen Flaherty. A new report from the federal Financial Literacy and Education Commission says that students lack financial literacy. The fix? More...

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5 juillet 2019

Guilford's Gamble

By Colleen Flaherty. Guilford College is changing the way it does most everything in an effort to stem its enrollment decline. But officials say it is also leaning in to its mission. More...

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5 juillet 2019

Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands

By Colleen Flaherty. Roosevelt U students take to social media to complain about a professor of theater they say has long been "abusive." More...

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5 juillet 2019

Indiana University Forms a Synthetic World Initiative

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Brett Bixler[Edit][Delete]: Indiana University Forms a Synthetic World Initiative, Penn State Virtual Worlds [Edit][Delete] August 2, 2006

Edward Castronova writes in an email "to announce the formation of a Synthetic Worlds Initiative within the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University." What's ineresting is that they are mounting what is essentially an in-game expedition (don't forget that quinine!) to investigate virtual worlds. Follow their blog at the Synthetic World News. More...

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