79 percent of students say quality of education worse with online courses amid COVID: poll
The results are in — most students are not impressed with distance learning.
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Universities report $1 billion in previously hidden foreign funding after feds threaten investigations
Since the Department of Education began cracking down on the failure to report riches from abroad, colleges across the country have become much more meticulous in their disclosure of assets from foreign funding, with some digging up records dating back to 2013.
Harvard forbids ‘racial stereotypes,’ but won’t say what that means
School has received ‘red light’ speech rating from campus watchdog group
Momentum grows to cut red tape and allow academic labs to conduct COVID testing
Two prominent Michigan medical professors are helping lead the charge to seek a suspension of regulations that prevent campus research labs from conducting diagnostic checks to help with testing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ohio U. cuts gender, African-American studies instructors to handle COVID shortfall
Facing an estimated $30 million shortfall due to the coronavirus epidemic, Ohio University this week laid off 140 unionized staff members, plus three faculty members in the African American Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies departments.
Citing theft, spying and propaganda, GOP lawmakers probe China’s ‘infiltration’ of U.S. colleges
'We cannot allow a dangerous communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education’
University of Michigan law students devise legal challenge to governor’s stay-at-home order
They unearthed a state and federal ‘fundamental right to intrastate travel’
Require administration layoffs before colleges get any more higher ed bailouts: scholars
Colleges and universities should be required to cut administrative bloat by 50 percent or more before they are entitled to receive any more bailout money from the feds, argues a right-leaning group of scholars.
Professors argue that police arrest blacks for social distancing violations but let whites do whatever
A couple law and government professors are criticizing police over a racial disparity among social distancing arrest statistics during the COVID-19 pandemic after recent statistics showed 35 of 40 people arrested in Brooklyn were black, four were Latino, and only one was white.
University of South Carolina tests First Amendment obligations with threats to punish Zoombombers
The University of South Carolina is refusing to say how a so-called Zoombombing incident violated school policy, or how its threats to punish the perpetrators are compliant with the public institution’s First Amendment obligations.
