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2 juillet 2015

After Controversy, UMass Rolls Out New Measures for Iranian Students

By Nick DeSantis. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has unveiled new measures concerning its treatment of Iranian students, four months after a short-lived controversy in which the institution banned some such students from certain graduate programs, The Boston Globe reports. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Students in Washington State Will See Their Tuition Drop

By Andy Thomason. Students at public colleges in Washington State will get a rare tuition decrease over the next two years — and a relatively sizable one. The Seattle Times reports that the two-year budget passed by the state’s Legislature on Monday will cut tuition at the University of Washington and Washington State University by 15 percent over two years; at Western, Central, and Eastern Washington Universities by 20 percent; and at community and technical colleges by 5 percent. More...

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2 juillet 2015

NYU’s Controversial Expansion Plan Gets Final Court Approval

By Andy Thomason. New York State’s highest court has rejected a challenge to New York University’s planned expansion in Greenwich Village, clearing the way for the controversial project to go forward. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Student-Debt-Relief Firm Will Shut Its Doors After New York Investigation

By Andy Thomason. A business offering student-loan “debt relief” will close its doors as part of an agreement with New York’s governor, Andrew M. Cuomo. The Times Union, a newspaper in Albany, reports that an investigation by Mr. Cuomo’s office found that Interactiv Education LLC advertised it could lower student-loan payments when, in fact, it just filled out a loan-consolidation form that is available free to anyone through the U.S. Education Department. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Education Dept. Names ‘Special Master’ to Oversee Corinthian Loan Discharge

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education has appointed a “special master” charged with overseeing the discharge of student-loan debt racked up on campuses of the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges Inc. The official, Joseph A. Smith, has overseen several large financial settlements the federal government has had a hand in, including the National Mortgage Settlement, which was undertaken as a response to the 2007 subprime-mortgage crisis. More...

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2 juillet 2015

After High-Profile Retraction, ‘Science’ Releases New Transparency Guidelines

By Andy Thomason. The journal Science has released a new set of comprehensive guidelines for publishing research studies in an effort to make them more transparent, The New York Times reports. The release comes after the high-profile retraction of a study that purported to measure the ease with which individuals changed their opinions on the issue of gay marriage. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Federal Government’s Student-Loan Watchdog Will Step Down

By Andy Thomason. Rohit Chopra, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s first student-loan ombudsman, will step down next week, he wrote in a letter on Wednesday. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Reactions to the Education Dept.’s Retreat on College Ratings

By Andy Thomason. People who watch higher education professionally (or, perhaps more disturbingly, for fun) were not exactly surprised to learn on Thursday morning that the Obama administration had stripped the ratings component out of its college-ratings plan. But the definitive end to what was once a pronounced platform point in President Obama’s higher-education agenda was not going to go unremarked upon. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Researchers Complain About Changes in Amazon Tool Used for Surveys

By Mary Ellen McIntire. This week Amazon changed the terms for a service that has become a standard tool in social-science research, and many scholars are complaining that it will mean higher costs to conduct surveys. More...

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2 juillet 2015

Universities Ban Smart Watches During Finals

By Mary Ellen McIntire. Some Australian universities warned students this month not to wear wristwatches during final exams, amid concerns that increasingly popular wearable technology, like the Apple Watch, could foster cheating. More...

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