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14 juillet 2017

Ethics, Money and Academic Meetings

HomeBy Nick RollCalifornia’s ban on using state funds to travel to Texas highlights the dilemma facing national groups with meetings scheduled to take place there. More...

14 juillet 2017

Summer Reading, Not Light Reading

HomeBy Nick Roll. Books on social and racial issues get spotlight among freshman reading assignments. This year, one showing up on campus lists focuses on low-income and rural white people, J. D. Vance’s 2016 sociopolitical breakout, Hillbilly Elegy. More...

14 juillet 2017

College vs. the Great Recession

HomeBy Nick Roll. Millennials who graduated college just as the 2008 recession was unfolding fared better economically than their peers did, despite facing increased prospects of underemployment and carrying student loans. More...

14 juillet 2017

Princeton Professor Dies While Teaching in India

HomeBy Nick Roll. A Princeton University professor died after a fall last week while leading a course abroad in India. 
Isabella Clark-Decès (right) was leading a seminar for the Princeton Institute of International and Regional Studies, titled At Home (and Abroad) in the Indian Himalayas, according to the university. More...

14 juillet 2017

Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Denied Entry to U.S.

HomeBy Nick Roll. Visas for a group of Afghan high school girls were denied recently, meaning the team can’t enter the U.S. to compete in an international robotics competition. More...

14 juillet 2017

California State to Guarantee Admission for Qualified Applicants

HomeBy Nick Roll. Under a recently announced state budget deal, CSU will develop a model to guarantee admission at one of its campuses or programs for the estimated 31,000 in-state students it turns away each year solely based on overflow issues, The Sacramento Bee reported. More...

14 juillet 2017

Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box

HomeBy Nick Roll. The movement to “ban the box” is often touted as a way to help ex-convicts find employment after incarceration. If employers, or states, get rid of the box on a job application where they ask about previous criminal history, that history won’t prevent people who have served their time from reintegrating into society, the argument goes. More...

14 juillet 2017

Colleges employ tech and partners to recruit stopped-out students

HomeBy Nick Roll. Employing a variety of technologies and company partners, colleges are broadening strategies to woo back former students who never got degrees. More...

14 juillet 2017

Go Big or Go Home

HomeBy Nick Roll. Decision by the American Society for Microbiology to scale back number of small conferences highlights pressures on the economics of scholarly gatherings. More...

14 juillet 2017

Professor Praised for Offer of Help in Child Care

HomeBy Nick Roll. When Morgan King emailed her professor about missing class, it wasn’t a typical request for an excused absence. King, a single mother and University of Tennessee student, couldn’t find child care June 14 and emailed her professor, Sally Hunter, the next day to explain why she missed class, The Knoxville News Sentinel reported. More...

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