By Scott Jaschik. A roundup of student protests, college vigils, controversies and academic groups' responses to a week of shooting deaths. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
17 juillet 2016
Admissions Group Warns of Test Cheating
By Scott Jaschik. The board of the National Association for College Admission Counseling on Monday announced its endorsement of a statement on promoting integrity in standardized testing, proposed by NACAC's advisory committee of people concerned with international issues. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
More Intellectual Than You Thought
By Scott Jaschik. Conventional wisdom holds that American society is and has long been pervasively anti-intellectual, with only elite academics embracing the life of the mind. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
Poll: Public Opposes Affirmative Action
By Scott Jaschik. When the U.S. Supreme Court last month affirmed the right of colleges to consider race and ethnicity in admissions, college leaders rushed to praise the decision and expressed confidence in the future of affirmative action. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
Wharton Alumni, Students Seek Distance From Trump
By Scott Jaschik. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has repeatedly cited his education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania as evidence of his intelligence. On Friday, hundreds of students and alumni issued an open letter to state that they do not want Wharton associated with Trump. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
Mixed Impact of Florida Reform of Remedial Education
By Scott Jaschik. Since Florida took away the ability of community colleges to require remedial education, enrollment in entry college-level courses has gone up and the enrollment in remedial courses has dropped, according to a new report from Florida State University researchers. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
The Pro-Gun Group Behind Campus Shooting Clubs
By Scott Jaschik. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which promotes gun use and lobbies against gun restrictions, has given more than $1 million to campus groups at about 100 colleges to start or run shooting clubs, The Boston Globe reported. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
Critical Investigation of New Jersey's Loan Program
By Scott Jaschik. New Jersey's state student loan program lacks protections that federal and many state programs have, according to an investigation by ProPublica, co-published with The New York Times. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
Anxiety, Depression, Waiting Lists
By Scott Jaschik. Survey of counseling center directors finds continued high demand from students for various conditions. Data show centers are diversifying clinical staffs, a demand of many minority student protests. Read more...
17 juillet 2016
Science Groups: Congress Must Accept Climate Change
By Scott Jaschik. Thirty-one scientific societies last week wrote to members of Congress, urging them to accept that climate change is real. The letter comes at a time when many Republicans in Congress, including members of committees with responsibility for science spending and science policy, dispute the scientific consensus that climate change is happening. Read more...
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