By Scott Jaschik. Many studies have found a positive impact on black students from having black teachers in elementary and secondary schools. A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that the positive impact may extend far beyond school, to whether black students enroll in college. More...
By Scott Jaschik. New federal study may alarm those concerned about encouraging more low-income students to enroll in college. More...
By Scott Jaschik. A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from adding a question on U.S. citizenship to the 2020 Census, ruling that the plan was based on Republican political goals, not the laws governing the process of collecting data on people who live in the United States. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The University of Denton may sound like a bargain, but the online "university" is attracting attention for its lack of real accreditation, lack of real facilities (its address is of a Denton, Tex., travel center not related to the institution) and its too-good-to-be-true offers. More...
By Scott Jaschik. Lawsuit against ACT says students are subject to a catch-22 in which they must give up their rights to demonstrate that they haven't cheated. Litigation comes amid similar challenge to the SAT. More...
By Scott Jaschik. St. John Fisher College, in upstate New York, has suspended its cheerleading squad after video surfaced of white cheerleaders singing along to a rap video and shouting out the N-word and a crude term for part of the female anatomy, The Democrat and Chronicle reported. More...
By Scott Jaschik. University agrees to review whether any programs or scholarships discriminate illegally against men, but legal experts say programs reserved for women are legal. More...
By Scott Jaschik. The University of California System has warned students studying in China not to use certain social media apps such as WeChat and WhatsApp, CNN reported. More...
La plateforme Parcoursup a ouvert ses portes ce 22 janvier, avec quelques modifications par rapport à l’année dernière. Plus...
In November, the faculty of Pitzer College voted overwhelmingly in support of suspending the college’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa, setting two conditions for the resumption of the program. The first condition is that entry to Israel, and thus to the Haifa program, must be free of discrimination based on ancestry and legitimate political speech. The second is that Israel allow foreign exchanges with Palestinian universities on the same basis that it does for Israeli universities. Currently, the Israeli state does not issue visas that allow foreign students and faculty members to join Palestinian universities for a full semester, much less any longer. More...
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