By Scott Jaschik. The Education Department has released a new list of colleges and universities under heightened cash monitoring, which means that they are subject to far greater oversight than other colleges in federal student aid programs. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Pepperdine University has told the U.S. Department of Education that it no longer wishes to be exempt from Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and will abide by the antibias policy. Many Christian colleges, as Pepperdine is, asked for and received exemptions in the last two years, saying that the Education Department's view that Title IX bars discrimination against transgender and gay students violates the colleges' Christian faith. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Carthage College, in Wisconsin, has dropped its requirement that applicants submit SAT or ACT scores. The college explained the shift this way: "Why test optional? This policy aligns with our admissions philosophy of holistic review and aligns with the college’s strategic plan on access. The best indication of whether a student will be successful at Carthage College is their performance in high school -- the grades they earn and the rigor of their course work." Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. More than 30 presidents of historically black colleges on Wednesday issued a joint letter calling for "peace and unity" after the shootings of black men and of police officers in several cities. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. EverFi, a company that provides colleges with online training programs on issues such as financial literacy and sexual assault prevention, on Wednesday announced the purchase of LawRoom. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. The College of the Ozarks has banned Pokémon Go from parts of its campus, OzarksFirst.com reported. The college campus has memorials to veterans and to those who died on Sept. 11 and does not want those playing the game to distract from the experience of visiting those memorials, officials said. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that one of their citizens, who matches the description of a student at MacEwan University, in Canada, is among those killed in the terrorist attack in Nice, CBC News reported. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Malcolm Gladwell says trade-off exists between high-quality campus dining and admitting low-income students. Bowdoin questions his logic and ethics. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning
Marguerite McNeal, EdSurge, 2016/08/15
Here's George Siemens, from a recent and very positive interview in EdSurge: "If we do things right, we could fix many of the things that are really very wrong with the university system, in that it treats people like objects, not human beings. It pushes us through like an assembly-line model rather than encouraging us to be self-motivated, self-regulated, self-monitoring human beings." More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
Sabine Hossenfelder, Aeon, 2016/08/15
I've described this in talks more often than I can count, so it's nice to have an actual physicist make the point for me: "During a decade of education, we physicists learn more than the tools of the trade; we also learn the walk and talk of the community, shared through countless seminars and conferences, meetings, lectures and papers. After exchanging a few sentences, we can tell if you’re one of us. You can’t fake our community slang any more than you can fake a local accent in a foreign country." Physicists recognize each other. More...
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