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28 juin 2014

Education Department Again Delays ‘State Authorization’ Rule

The U.S. Department of Education is again delaying the deadline for when colleges must comply with a requirement that they obtain authorization from regulators in each state in which they are physically located. The rule was set to take effect next month, but the department announced Monday that it is pushing the deadline back to July 1, 2015. This is the second time the department has provided such an extension for a rule that many colleges have said is confusing. Some have also said the rule is being enforced unfairly. The regulation is aimed at setting some minimum standards for how a state approves colleges operating within its borders. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

Nearly 70 Colleges Team Up to Assess Student Learning

Nearly 70 institutions are collaborating to better assess learning outcomes as part of a new initiative called the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment. The colleges and universities are a mix of two- and four-year institutions. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

Education Department Will ‘Pause’ on State Authorization Rule

The Obama administration is delaying its plan to develop a controversial rule that would require online programs to obtain approval from each and every state in which they enroll students, a top Education Department official said Wednesday. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

House Republicans Announce Three Higher Ed Act Bills

House Republicans on Thursday released a package of three bills that kick off their step-by-step approach to rewriting the Higher Education Act.

The first bill aims to boost financial counseling for students who take out federal loans or grants. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

California Auditor Criticizes CCSF's Accreditor

The California State Auditor on Thursday issued a scathing report on the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), the regional accreditor that has come under fire for its handling of the City College of San Francisco crisis. The auditor's office said the commission acted in an inconsistent manner with its decision to terminate City College's accreditation. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

Proof via Straw Man

By Wade Dyke. There is a pattern of dishonesty taking place in some of the criticism of for-profit colleges. Too frequently, opponents of the sector take advantage of students and use an individual as a “straw man” to try to prove a point about student debt and tuition. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

Fighting for Survival

By Ry Rivard. Elizabeth City State University faced a brief existential crisis last month when North Carolina lawmakers toyed with the idea of closing the historically black institution. The lawmakers backed off, but the episode was just one in a series of challenges facing the country’s 40 public historically black four-year colleges and universities. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

A Slew of Studies, Summarized

By Doug Lederman. Hardly a day goes that doesn't bring the release of some analysis or another about higher education. But an unusually large number of reports and studies about college financial aid and finances were released Tuesday (or are being made public today). The following are brief summaries of them, with links for those who want to dig deeper. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

When Digital Projects End

By Carl Straumsheim. The efforts to preserve digital humanities research are as numerous as the definitions of the catchall term, according to a report that urges institutions to develop their own strategies to preserve resources that can’t simply be bound and stored in a library. The report, “Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support Beyond the Start-Up Phase,” represents an effort by co-authors Nancy L. Maron and Sarah Pickle, a program director and analyst at the consulting firm Ithaka S+R, respectively, to study how institutions support digital resources created on their campuses. The work builds on an earlier report that looked at similar efforts in the United Kingdom. Read more...

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28 juin 2014

Fighting Plagiarism in Spain

By Isabel López Ruiz for Times Higher Education. Over the past few years, there have been growing attempts in Spain to increase discussion in academe about plagiarism, and establish official policies and remedies to combat the problem. A trail has been blazed by academics at the University of Granada; in 2008 they launched a teacher-led initiative named Plataforma contra el Plagio (Platform Against Plagiarism). Read more...

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