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After students call it racist, Mary Baldwin University removes Richmond artists’ Confederate-themed exhibit
A private liberal arts university in Virginia says an exhibit that included depictions of Confederate statues has been removed after some students called the installation racist.
Law professor seeks data on admissions at UC System
A law professor and an Asian-American politician are suing the University of California for data they believe would reveal that the state university system is illegally using race in its admissions process.
Betsy DeVos sued again over delays in student debt relief
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was hit with another lawsuit Tuesday claiming she failed to cancel student debt owed by people whose for-profit colleges have been shut down.
Swastika defaces Duke mural
A mural at Duke University — created to honor the victims of last month's Pittsburgh synagogue shooting — was vandalized with a Nazi symbol over the weekend.
Japan finally opens new doors for international students
While Japan can no longer claim the lowest birth rate in the world, its rate of 1.44 births per woman is a full point below the global average.
Student loan servicer steered some borrowers to higher-cost plans, government says
One of the companies that handles federal student loans has been steering some borrowers toward repayment plans that cost them more money over time.
Scammers target UK students with fake tax refund emails
Thousands of university students have been targeted with fake tax refund emails in an attempt to steal their banking and personal details, HM Revenue and Customs has said.
DeVos paints doomsday student debt landscape
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sounded the alarm on the state of higher education in a doomsday speech on the student debt crisis and vowed to use the tools at her disposal to make changes.
New MacBook Air and Mac mini show the Apple Tax on storage lives on
When Apple announced the first new versions of its MacBook Air laptop and Mac mini desktop in years, it left the bad news behind its site’s “Buy” buttons: a scant storage allocation that’s expensive to upgrade.
