By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. After fatal shooting of a student, experts question why Georgia Tech doesn’t arm its officers with stun guns. More...
10 octobre 2017
10 octobre 2017
Campus Roiled After Fatal Shooting
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. After a Georgia Tech officer fatally shot a student Saturday, the campus has erupted over law enforcement’s handling of the situation, with at least three arrested and a police cruiser set ablaze. More...
10 octobre 2017
Rutgers Escapes Relatively Unscathed
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. University receives relatively mild punishment from NCAA, even though the former head football coach pressured faculty member to raise a player's grade and didn't act when players tested positive for drugs. More...
10 octobre 2017
Wheaton Gives Community Service to Players Facing Felony Charges
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Wheaton College, in Illinois, punished five football players by assigning them to write essays and complete community service for their role in a 2016 hazing episode. They also now face felony charges. More...
10 octobre 2017
The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting wider, fast
The rich-poor divide on America’s college campuses is getting wider, fast
Jon Marcus, Holly K. Hacker, The Hechinger Report, 2015/12/25
This same trend is reflected, albeit to a lesser degree, in other countries. And in the United States, as this article shows, the higher education system is set up to benefit the wealthy and give them multiple advantages over the poor. More...
10 octobre 2017
OUSA Releases Broader Learning Environment Policy Paper
OUSA Releases Broader Learning Environment Policy Paper
Alex Hobbs, Antonio Sergi, Chris Fernlund, Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA), 2015/12/25
The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance (OUSA) has it exactly right with this policy paper (3 page PDF, 29 page PDF) addressing learning environments. More...
9 octobre 2017
Travel Ban 3.0
By Elizabeth Redden. Higher education groups on Monday began to grapple with what new restrictions on travel to the U.S. from eight countries imposed Sunday night by the Trump administration will mean for international student and scholar exchange. More...
9 octobre 2017
Trump Issues New Travel Restrictions
By Elizabeth Redden. The new restrictions limit travel for nationals of five of the six countries included in the expired ban -- Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen -- as well as three new ones: Chad, North Korea and Venezuela. Restrictions on Sudan have been limited. More...
9 octobre 2017
Trump Ends DACA
By Elizabeth Redden. Colleges look to support students after administration announces end of program that granted hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants protection from deportation and the right to work. More...
9 octobre 2017
Democratic Attorneys General Sue to Keep DACA
By Elizabeth Redden. Attorney generals from 15 states and the District of Columbia – all Democrats -- filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop the Trump administration’s plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. On Tuesday, the Trump administration announced plans to end DACA, through which about 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children have obtained the right to legally work and protection against deportation. More...
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