By Courtney Kueppers. For the past 18 months, Grand Canyon Education Inc. has been working to convert from for-profit to nonprofit status. That process came to a halt on Friday, when Grand Canyon announced that its accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission, would not support the change. More...
By Rio Fernandes. A committee charged with considering a change in the Harvard Law School’s seal because of its connection to a slave-owning family, the Royalls, has recommended its removal, reports The Harvard Crimson. More...
By Rio Fernandes. When the University of Texas at Austin’s longtime architecture dean announced last week that he planned to take a job at his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, and cited Texas’ controversial campus-carry gun law as a reason for the move. More...
By Courtney Kueppers. The Ivy League’s eight head football coaches unanimously approved a measure last week that would eliminate full-contact tackling during practices in the regular season, The New York Times reports. More...
By Charles Huckabee. Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas on Tuesday ordered a $17-million cut in spending on the state’s public colleges over the next four months to help close a gap in expected revenue for the fiscal year that ends June 30, the Associated Press reported. More...
By Andy Thomason. His political rise, the conventional wisdom goes, has been based on the support of poorly educated Americans. “Donald Trump’s surge is all about less-educated Americans,” read a headline in The Washington Post last July. “I love the poorly educated,” Mr. Trump proclaimed after he won the Nevada primary last month. More...
By Karin Fischer. Foreign students in science and technology will be able to extend their stay in the United States, under a new rule to be published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week. The regulation will be welcome relief to some 34,000 students — as well as to colleges and employers — who could have been forced to leave the country this spring because of a legal challenge to a program, Optional Practical Training, that allows them to work in the United States after graduation. More...
By Anastasia Salter. I’ve been fortunate to have opportunities to virtually give several classroom talks using Skype or Google Hangout. I love these types of conversations because they give me a chance to engage with students in other disciplines and institutions, but I’ve been hesitant to invite people to my own classroom. Read more...
By Anastasia Salter. With my semester hitting crunch time, I’ve been using a number of digital distractions for quick breaks in between grading and editing. The internet is, of course, great at providing cat pictures for those who turn to Facebook or Twitter for diversion — but there’s also a number of recent awesome cat-centric interactive works that can provide both cool models of interactivity and cuteness. Read more...
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