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9 octobre 2017

Disparaging Interpretive Dance (and More)?

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. Kentucky governor sets off debate -- and nettles some professors -- by suggesting eliminating programs that don't prepare students for good-paying jobs. More...

9 octobre 2017

A Look in the Mirror

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. Racism hurts students throughout the college admissions process, leading scholar tells meeting of admissions counselors. More...

9 octobre 2017

Prior-Prior’s Payoff

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. Changes made last year to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid led to new behaviors both intended and unintended by students and colleges and universities, according to survey results and other data presented at a Friday session during the National Association for College Admission Counseling's national conference. More...

9 octobre 2017

More Than Cotton

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. President who apologized for cotton centerpieces at event for black students now is sorry for a menu that many see as insensitive for being stereotypically black cuisine. More...

9 octobre 2017

Can Dartmouth Grow and Stay Small?

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. College considers increasing undergraduate levels by 10 percent to 25 percent -- but still identifying as a small college. Despite a $112 million 2016 operating deficit, administrators say the move wouldn’t be about bringing in more money. More...

9 octobre 2017

Liberty's Disclosure Headache

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. University says it did not need to break out home sale to Trey Falwell, a top administrator who is son of the president, after allegations in an article that also detailed his ownership of a Miami hostel. More...

9 octobre 2017

High-Deductible Plans Rise in Higher Ed

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. Colleges and universities increasingly offered high-deductible health plans, health-care benefits for part-time employees and stand-alone vision plans in 2017, according to a new survey. They continued to offer health-care benefits to domestic partners at high rates. More...

9 octobre 2017

Narrowing the Partisan Divide

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. New survey shows a partisan divide over higher ed aspirations for children -- that narrows when Republicans and Democrats are given more information. And study finds skepticism of affirmative action. More...

9 octobre 2017

Purdue Tackles Job Training

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. University touts new deal to train for IT outsourcing firm’s U.S. hiring push, but faculty balk at lack of control over curriculum. More...

9 octobre 2017

So Much for a Honeymoon

HomeBy Rick Seltzer. In those 49 days, he’d gone from being vaguely aware of the statue’s existence to learning that it was vandalized as Confederate monuments across the country came under a wave of new scrutiny in the days following a violent white supremacist rally around a statue of Lee in Charlottesville, Va. He’d reached out to students, faculty members, alumni, Duke senior leaders and trustees. And he’d decided that Duke’s Lee statue needed to be removed. More...

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