By Paul Fain. The Trump administration has called on the U.S. Congress to cut $3 billion from the U.S. Department of Education's budget as part of $18 billion in new proposed cuts to social programs for the current fiscal year, according to news reports. The White House previously called for a $9.2 billion (or 13.5 percent) cut to the department for next year. Read more...
By Matthew Reisz for Times Higher Education. The country has some strong universities, but many institutions struggle to serve impoverished students. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. An Arizona appeals court ruling last week overturned a state law that barred medical marijuana on college or university campuses, Capitol Media Services reported. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. A new study in The Journal of Higher Education finds that 61 percent of the variance on college graduation rates by race can be explained by factors in students' pre-college experiences. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. The U.S. Education Department on Friday announced the resolution of complaints filed against Wittenberg University in 2011 and 2013 regarding its obligations under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to investigate reports of sexual assaults. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. President Trump will deliver the commencement address at Liberty University this year. Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty's president, was a key backer of Trump during last year's campaign. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Robert S. Eitel is working as a special assistant for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos while he is on unpaid leave as vice president for regulatory legal services at Bridgepoint Education Inc., The New York Times reported. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Proposals would keep Pell level, but cut work-study and TRIO and eliminate SEOG. In science, president would make massive cuts to NIH and research at Energy Department. And budget formally seeks to kill NEH and AmeriCorps. Read more...
By Scott Jaschik. Editors of The Crusader, the student newspaper at the College of the Holy Cross, are considering changing the name of the publication. The editors announced the reconsideration based on their concerns and those of faculty members that a publication of the Ku Klux Klan shares the name. Read more...
A scholarly framework and documentary format coincide in The Activists, writes Scott McLemee, which depicts the antiwar movement in this century’s first decade as an assemblage of collaborating but distinct groups. Read more...
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