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15 mars 2015

In Promoting Campus Diversity, Don't Dismiss Religion

By Eboo Patel. A few weeks back, I was on a campus visit to the University of California at Los Angeles, where I first heard the story of Rachel Beyda. A pre-law sophomore, she applied for a seat on UCLA’s student Judicial Board and found her various identities an area of focus in the interview process. More...

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15 mars 2015

Can Robert Putnam Save the American Dream?

By Marc Parry. The event is billed as a lecture on a new book of social science. But the speaker visiting Cambridge’s Lesley University this Monday night sounds like a political candidate on the hustings. Robert D. Putnam — Harvard political scientist, trumpeter of community revival, consultant to the last four presidents — is on campus to sound an alarm. "What I want to talk to you about," he tells some 40 students and academics, is "the most important domestic challenge facing our country today. I want to talk about a growing gap between rich kids and poor kids." More...

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15 mars 2015

What Obama’s ‘Student Aid Bill of Rights’ Will — and Won’t — Do

By Kelly Field. President Obama’s latest effort to improve student lending has a catchy-sounding name — the Student Aid Bill of Rights — and it’s garnering praise from consumer advocates and Congressional Democrats.
But does it actually alter the student-lending landscape? Yes and no. More...

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15 mars 2015

Obama to Expand Protections for Student-Loan Borrowers

By Kelly Field. In a speech he’s scheduled to give on Tuesday at the Georgia Institute of Technology, President Obama will announce a Student Aid Bill of Rights and sign a presidential memorandum directing federal agencies to take steps to help borrowers repay their debt. More...

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15 mars 2015

Graduate-Student Union Organizers Hail NYU Deal as a Breakthrough

By Peter Schmidt. A new tentative labor agreement between New York University and its graduate employees’ union is being hailed by the organizers of such workers at other private universities as both a landmark victory for their labor movement and, in at least one case, a potential template for their own future demands. More...

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15 mars 2015

‘Eye-watering’ salary rises for university chiefs cannot be justified, says report

By Julie Henry. A pay increase for university vice-chancellors of nearly 60% in the last two decades cannot be justified by their performance in the job, research suggests. University heads have seen their salaries soar during recent years to an average of £260,000, with some receiving packages worth more than £400,000 a year. Read more...

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15 mars 2015

University fees: research rather than teaching could soak up extra funds

By Daniel Hurst. Australian universities’ use of student funding for projects that boost their global rankings raises questions over how they would spend deregulation windfall. Read more...

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15 mars 2015

Students afraid to disclose disabilities to potential employers

By Abby Young-Powell. More than three quarters of students and graduates with a disability feel they will be discriminated against by employers, a survey shows. Read more...

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15 mars 2015

Let’s get this straight: bipolar is not a useful tool for productivity

By anonymous academic. My PhD was spent in a blur of bipolar mania, which left me bald from stress, overweight and completely exhausted. Read more...

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15 mars 2015

Social scientists shouldn't shy away from political debates

By John Holmwood. Social scientists are pandering to politicians rather than engaging in proper debate – and it’s the public who lose out. Read more...

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