By Barbara Fister. How U.S. newspapers are responding (or not) to the new European privacy regulations. More...
Only Education Can Save Brazil
The current political moment contextualizes the fight against corruption that exists throughout basic and higher education. More...
Ed Department Says It Didn’t Botch State Authorization Delay
By Lindsay McKenzie. Assertions that the U.S. Department of Education missed a deadline to delay state authorization rules are incorrect, a department spokeswoman said Thursday. More...
State Authorization Delay Delayed?
By Lindsay McKenzie. State authorization rules that were supposed to be delayed for two years may have accidentally gone into effect due to an apparent error by the U.S. Department of Education. More...
DeVos Delays State Authorization Rules
By Lindsay McKenzie. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos confirmed last week that an expected two-year delay of state authorization rules will go ahead. More...
California Boot Camp Shuts Down
By Lindsay McKenzie. Learners Guild, a California-based coding boot camp, has ceased operations. More...
Official: USC Knew Med Dean Led Double Life
By Greg Toppo. A former vice dean of USC’s medical school told state authorities Tuesday that he feared the school’s then dean, Carmen A. Puliafito, “could be doing drugs” while in charge of the school, and that Puliafito could one day be “found dead in a hotel room,” the Los Angeles Times reported. More...
Backlash and Boycott Over Exclusionary Conference
By Marjorie Valbrun. Anger grows over major scholarly meeting in Asian studies, organized by group based in U.S., that will hold conference in India even though Pakistanis will be banned from attending. More...
Is There a Right to Know a College Might Close?
By Rick Seltzer. After Mount Ida College closure, Massachusetts proposals grapple with whether colleges should disclose shutdown possibilities and when regulators should step in. More...
Sacred Heart Closes Deal for Nursing College in Connecticut
By Rick Seltzer. Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., has taken over operations of St. Vincent’s College, it said Monday, closing an acquisition deemed likely last year when the university entered a management agreement with St. Vincent’s, which largely awarded two-year nursing degrees. More...