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1 avril 2016

Consultation citoyenne

Le gouvernement a lancé une consultation des citoyens sur internet pour nourrir les réflexions et les propositions qui émergeront à l’issue du Comité interministériel pour l’égalité des territoires qui se tiendra le 13 avril.
Parmi les 8 thématiques pour lesquelles des contributions sont attendues : Comment faciliter l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes diplômés des territoires en difficulté ? Comment simplifier les dispositifs pour permettre aux jeunes d’accéder pleinement à leurs droits ? Comment favoriser l’apprentissage de la langue française à tout âge ?
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1 avril 2016

Should professors be fired for damaging a college's reputation?

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. This January, two students at Mount St. Mary’s University reported in the campus newspaper, The Mountain Echo, that their college president planned to dismiss about two dozen students in September in an effort to improve the school’s retention rate. More...

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1 avril 2016

Imagine if conservatives in academia could safely 'come out'

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A few days after the 2004 election, Gabriel Rossman went for a job interview with the UCLA sociology department. Rossman was finishing a doctorate at Princeton, and his research on how ownership affects mass-media content was a good fit for a school in the entertainment capital. More...

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1 avril 2016

Colleges hoping to launch terrorism studies struggle to find profs

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Security expert Mia Bloom estimates that before the 9/11 attacks, there were about 25 self-identified terrorism experts in academia. But that changed quickly. More...

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1 avril 2016

How can I teach when my students are packing guns?

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. It is difficult and painful to imagine how the learning environment in my course will change in the fall, when students at the University of Texas–Austin will have the right to attend class with a concealed gun. More...

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1 avril 2016

Are students demanding a limit to free speech on campuses today?

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. More of this year’s freshman class expects to participate in at least one protest while they’re in college than at any other time in the last 50 years. The portion of all students who claim to be these prospective protesters? 10%. Among black students, the proportion rises to 16%. More...

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1 avril 2016

Hidden gold in college applications

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. If the gatekeepers at Davidson College had judged the teenager by her ACT score, she probably wouldn’t have gotten in. More...

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1 avril 2016

Wage gains are measure of success

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A student who takes a technical course at a community college often gets a salary boost or promotion, but that sort of positive outcome doesn’t show up on colleges’ traditional measures of success. More...

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1 avril 2016

The difference between being eligible, ready for college

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. For Kimberly Wilborn, a lesson about Nelson Mandela made it all click.
“Ms. Plante was talking about Nelson Mandela and how he forgave his jailers,” remembers the eighth grader, who is being raised by her aunt on Chicago’s South Side. More...

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1 avril 2016

Can our colleges be saved?

Submitted by Tim Goral. The public is steadily losing confidence in undergraduate education, given that we hear constantly about how poorly educated today’s graduates are and how few well-paying jobs await them. More...

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