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1 juillet 2016

Prevalent launches higher ed vendor network

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Prevalent, Inc., the leader in Third-Party Risk and Vendor Threat Intelligence, today announced the launch of the Higher Education Vendor Network (HEVN), the next in a series of vendor networks initiated by Prevalent that reduce costs, risk, and overhead for both vendors and their customers. More...

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1 juillet 2016

House Committee approves five bills toward reauthorizing the Higher Ed Act

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The House Education and the Workforce Committee this morning voted to approve five higher education measures focused on improving the financial aid process, enhancing consumer information and strengthening federal programs that support the work of minority-serving institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Supreme Court upholds University of Texas' affirmative action program

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of the United States has upheld the University of Texas' affirmative action program. More...

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1 juillet 2016

The outlook for state higher education spending

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The University of Virginia Miller Center created the National Commission on Financing 21st Century Higher Education in 2014 to recommend policy and funding changes to help the nation attain the goal of 60 percent of the labor force with a postsecondary degree or certificate by 2025. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Colleges, universities navigate new concealed handgun law, policies

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The controversial law that will allow concealed license holders to carry their handguns on college campuses will take effect Aug. 1 for four-year, public institutions in the state of Texas. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Overtime rule affects colleges

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With about five months to go before new federal overtime regulations set in, colleges and universities around the Quad-Cities are busily trying to figure out the impact they will have on their budgets — and how they might affect student costs. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Community college students are filling the rolls at four-year institutions

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Public colleges and universities are drawing a large percentage of their students from community colleges, where nearly two-thirds of students transfer to a four-year institution, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Are new financial aid policies at major public universities working?

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In an era of significant disinvestment in public higher education by state governments, many public universities are moving toward a “progressive tuition model” that attempts to invest approximately one-third of tuition income into institutional financial aid for lower-income and middle-class students. More...

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1 juillet 2016

New coding boot camps to start at Seattle Central College

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Everyone’s heard how Seattle’s hottest companies are constantly scrambling to fill high-tech job openings. A new federal grant aims to ease the shortage — with free coding boot camps for people without college degrees. More...

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1 juillet 2016

Bid to buy for-profit college by former Obama insiders raises questions

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. As the Obama administration cracks down on for-profit colleges, three former officials working on behalf of an investment firm run by President Barack Obama’s best friend have staged a behind-the-scenes campaign to get the Education Department to green-light a purchase of the biggest for-profit of them all — the University of Phoenix. More...

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