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24 février 2018

Controversial Event at Chicago (Yes, Chicago) Called Off

By Scott Jaschik. Description of conservative group's gathering said immigration has turned U.S. into "porcelain receptacle for other nations’ wretched refuse." Group said rhetoric was intentionally hyperbolic, and that students canceled the event. More...

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24 février 2018

Shocker: Humanities Grads Gainfully Employed and Happy

By Scott Jaschik. What's the worst college major for your career, according to Forbes? Anthropology and archaeology. Kiplinger's says to stay away from religious studies, music, anthropology and art history. More...

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24 février 2018

‘The Tyranny of Metrics’

By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses new book on what he views as the dangers of an obsession with numbers in analyzing admissions, academic success, faculty productivity and more in higher education. More...

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24 février 2018

Professor Criticized for Comment on Trump

By Scott Jaschik. Northeastern University has criticized a comment by one of its professors and removed a video showing the comment, The Boston Globe reported. More...

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24 février 2018

Updates on White Nationalists on Campus

By Scott Jaschik. Many students at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln are upset that the university has said it will not kick out a white nationalist student, The Lincoln Journal Star reported. Officials have said, consistent with the decisions at other public institutions, that the student has a First Amendment right to his opinions, however offensive they may be. More...

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24 février 2018

The Cost of Attending For-Profits

By Scott Jaschik. A new analysis finds that students enrolling in certificate programs are more likely to experience economic gains from enrolling in programs at public institutions, generally community colleges, than at for-profit institutions. Further, the analysis finds that people may be better off economically by not pursuing any postsecondary education than by enrolling in a certificate program at a for-profit. More...

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24 février 2018

Instructor Out After Denying Australia Is Country

By Scott Jaschik. Southern New Hampshire University announced on Twitter that an online sociology instructor who denied that Australia is a country has been replaced. The university is also reimbursing the student who had her work rejected for insisting that Australia is, in fact, a country. More...

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24 février 2018

Budget Law Forgives Debt of Louisiana Black Colleges

By Scott Jaschik. The budget bill enacted last week included a provision clearing more than $330 million owed by four historically black colleges for loans they took out from the U.S. Education Department to help with recovery from Hurricane Katrina, The New Orleans Advocate reported. More...

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24 février 2018

Why a College Ended Admissions by Test Score

By Scott Jaschik. A few dozen students a year who were meeting the SAT requirement were in the bottom half of their high school classes and didn't perform well in college. More...

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24 février 2018

Historians Blast Polish Law on Nazi-Era Scholarship

By Scott Jaschik. The American Historical Association has condemned a new law in Poland that makes it a crime to write or speak "publicly and contrary to the facts, that the Polish Nation or the Republic of Poland is responsible or co-responsible for Nazi crimes committed by the Third Reich." Many prominent scholars have written over the years that while some Polish citizens and leaders fought the Nazis, others helped them. More...

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