By Andy Thomason. A sizable minority of colleges manage their investments according to “socially responsible” principles, according to the results of a new survey by the Commonfund Institute. More...
3 mai 2015
3 mai 2015
Reviewer Suggests Female Researchers Recruit Male Co-Authors to Raise Paper’s Credibility
By Andy Thomason. Reviewer Suggests Female Researchers Recruit Male Co-Authors to Raise Paper’s Credibility. More...
3 mai 2015
U.S. Census Bureau Won’t Drop Survey Question About College Majors
By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Census Bureau will continue asking about college graduates’ areas of study in a major survey after it considered dropping the question, Science magazine reports. More...
3 mai 2015
Yale Eases Leave-of-Absence Policy in Response to Mental-Health Concerns
By Andy Thomason. Yale University has made it easier for students to take a leave of absence for personal reasons, The Wall Street Journal reports. The change was prompted by concerns that students with mental-health problems were being burdened by strict rules for temporarily leaving the college. More...
3 mai 2015
Bill in Congress Would Bar Colleges From Compelling Students Not to Sue
By Andy Thomason. A bill introduced in Congress on Tuesday would forbid colleges that receive federal financial aid to require students to agree to mandatory arbitration clauses, which have been used by for-profit colleges to prevent students from suing them. More...
3 mai 2015
College in Louisiana Must Pay $35,000 for Rejecting HIV-Positive Applicant
By Andy Thomason. A vocational college in Louisiana must pay out $35,000 for denying admission to an HIV-positive applicant, according to an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, The Times-Picayune reports. Compass Career College, a proprietary institution, must change its policies to avoid discriminating against people with HIV, pay $30,000 to the applicant denied admission to its practical-nursing program, and pay a $5,000 fine to the federal government. More...
3 mai 2015
Lawmakers Investigate Education Dept.’s Role in Forgiving Student-Loan Debt
By Andy Thomason. A group of Democratic lawmakers is pushing the U.S. Department of Education to more frequently forgive the loan debt of students who attended colleges that engaged in “fraudulent activities.”
Five U.S. senators and a member of the House of Representatives wrote a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Monday, stating that the department should “take immediate action” to inform students eligible for debt relief — including those who attended the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges — of their options. More...
3 mai 2015
Wearable Teaching? College to Experiment With Apple Watch as Learning Tool
By Jeffrey R. Young. Even before the Apple Watch was released, professors and pundits began speculating on whether it and other wearable devices might play a role in college classrooms. On Monday researchers at Pennsylvania State University’s main campus announced that they would be among the first to test the device’s usefulness in the classroom. More...
3 mai 2015
How Corinthian’s Student Body Measured Up Against Other For-Profits: 4 Takeaways
By Lance Lambert. Corinthian Colleges Inc. made waves in higher education this week when it announced it would abruptly close its remaining campuses, displacing 16,000 students. The campuses — operated by the Corinthian subsidiaries Everest College, Everest Institute, Heald College, and WyoTech — were located mostly in California and other western states. More...
3 mai 2015
Revisions Make a Key Loan-Repayment Plan More Inclusive, Yet More Targeted
By Kelly Field. Negotiators on a federal rule-making panel have agreed on a plan to expand and remake Pay as You Earn, the most generous of the student-loan income-based repayment plans.The revised program — dubbed REPAYE, short for Revised PAYE — would be at once more inclusive and more targeted than the current plan. More...
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