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14 juin 2015

Poor Grades From the Public

By Jacqueline Thomsen. A national poll released by the Robert Morris University Polling Institute Monday found that only a little more than half of respondents viewed the college selection process favorably and less than half thought colleges were doing enough to help graduates find jobs. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Change in Tone

By Colleen Flaherty. Like many university leaders, Chancellor Rebecca Blank of the University of Wisconsin at Madison has had her ups and downs with the faculty. She butted heads with some professors in her support for a now-dead plan to make the university system into a more autonomous public authority, for example, but earned faculty praise when she defended professors against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s suggestion that faculty members might be shirking their teaching responsibilities. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Debt Relief Unveiled

By Michael Stratford. The federal government will forgive the debt of thousands of former students of Corinthian Colleges, the Obama administration said Monday as it announced a new debt relief plan that will extend to all federal borrowers who can prove they were defrauded by their college. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Changes Planned for Foreign Student Work Program

By Elizabeth Redden. As part of President Obama’s executive actions on immigration announced last fall, the White House said that the Department of Homeland Security would propose changes to “expand and extend the use” of the optional practical training (OPT) program, which currently provides temporary work authorization to international students for 12 months postgraduation with an additional 17-month extension for students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

2 + 2 Shouldn't = 5

By Ashley A. Smith. One of the largest barriers to completing a bachelor's degree is losing credits when transferring from a community college. Even with articulation agreements between two-year and four-year institutions, a significant number of credits may end up lost in the shuffle. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Overseeing the Outsourced

By Michael Stratford. Colleges in recent years have increasingly turned to outside companies to manage parts of the financial aid process and provide other services to students. And the boom in outsourcing now has federal regulators racing to keep up. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Rebooting the Career College

By Doug Lederman. As a guarantor of student loans that specialized in collecting from students on the precipice of bankruptcy, the Educational Credit Management Corporation saw up close the “impact of students taking on debt, dropping out of school and being no better off than when they started college in terms of being able to find well-paying jobs,” says David Hawn, the nonprofit guaranty agency's chief executive officer. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Arts and Sciences Deficits

By Kellie Woodhouse. Larry Singell saw the writing on the wall well before his college was hit with a possible $8 million deficit.
Though the College of Arts and Sciences is by far the largest college at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus, more and more students were enrolling with credits earned through high school programs and community colleges. Students, worrying about employability after college, were leaving majors like English and anthropology behind and picking professional colleges instead. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

Does Harvard Need Your Money?

By Kellie Woodhouse. It didn’t take long for the criticisms to begin rolling in after Harvard University announced a $400 million donation to its engineering college. Read more...

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14 juin 2015

'The Censor's Hand'

By Scott Jaschik. Many scholars complain that institutional review boards unreasonably delay or block studies involving human research subjects. A new book, The Censor's Hand: The Misregulation of Human-Subject Research (MIT Press), doesn't see IRBs as fixable, but as an inherently flawed system. The author -- Carl E. Schneider is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Law and Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan -- responded via email to questions about his book's themes. Read more...

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