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5 avril 2014

Back in Business

By Paul Fain. Arizona covers less than 1 percent of the budget for the Maricopa Community College District. The 10-college system, which enrolls 265,000 students, now receives an annual state contribution of $8 million. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Higher Ed Cuts in GOP Budget

By Michael Stratford. House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their 2015 fiscal year budget, which proposes steep cuts to many domestic social programs, including reductions to Pell Grants, student loans, and research funding. The proposal, by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the House Budget Committee chairman, seeks to bring the federal budget into balance by 2024 and would cut spending by $5 trillion over the next decade. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Questioned for Being Transgender?

By Scott Jaschik. When the U.S. Education and Justice Departments last year found that a California school district violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by barring a transgender student from sex-specific facilities and activities, experts said that colleges needed to take note. Even though the case involved elementary and secondary education, the precedent apparently applied to higher education as well. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Dropping the Ball on Disabilities

By Allie Grasgreen. New college students with disabilities are often insecure. Navigating a complicated bureaucracy for the first time with far less institutional support than they had in high school, these students often must overcome stigma and ignorance surrounding their disabilities and advocate for themselves, which they're often not used to doing. The alternative: risk not getting the tools they need to succeed academically. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Collateral Damage

By Paul Fain. Students at a community college in rural Texas may lose access to federal aid because of a student-loan default measure Congress expanded mostly to keep an eye on for-profit institutions. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

The MBA for Billionaires

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Academics in Britain may be fighting a fifth year of below-inflation pay rises, but some business schools seem to inhabit a different financial universe. Last month, Times Higher Education attended a champagne reception held at the top of the landmark Gherkin building in London's financial district to celebrate the launch of a new executive M.B.A. The price tag? Nearly £77,000 (about $130,000) for 20 months' tuition. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Default Data on Parent PLUS Loans

By Michael Stratford. The national default rate for Parent PLUS loans has nearly tripled in recent years, but it remains well below the default rates for other federal student loans, according to data released for the first time last week by the U.S. Department of Education. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

2U Ends Semester Online

By Carl Straumsheim. The online education provider 2U will this summer eliminate its online course pool initiative in favor of developing fully online undergraduate degree programs, ending a high-profile effort to offer scalable, credit-granting online courses at residential colleges. The consortium, known as Semester Online, was initially marketed as a platform for top-tier universities to offer online courses to paying students at participating universities. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Prisoners Dilemma

By Ry Rivard. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has dropped a plan to provide public money for inmate higher education. Instead, his administration is looking to find donors to fund his plan. The proposal, which the Democratic governor announced in February, withered in the face of opposition, particularly among Republicans in the state Senate. Read more...

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5 avril 2014

Grants vs. Loans

By Scott Jaschik. Much of the debate about encouraging college completion has focused on academic requirements, advising or the curriculum. Many experts commonly say that completion rates are about much more than money. But a study released here Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association suggests that money, and different kinds of money, matter a lot in the graduation of low-income students. Read more...

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