A $5.8 billion win for student loan borrowers with disabilities
ED's discharge of debt also includes reduction in red tape. Read more
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Mask bans? Why 3 laws may protect students, faculty with disabilities
Immunocompromised individuals could ask for and get relief, according to Syracuse University professor. Read more
How higher ed can help us cope with the ‘great resignation’
Universities are rethinking their “customer base,” expanding beyond four-year undergraduates and graduate students Read more
Initial estimates show fall enrollments up at several public universities
Just as the recent Covid-19 outbreak continues to surge in many parts of the country – typically in the form of the highly contagious Delta variant – hundreds of colleges and universities are welcoming students back to campus. Read more
Why this university now gives students a chance to bring pets to campus
'Pets can help students make friends by acting as an icebreaker,' Shenandoah University's new animal policy says Read more
Feds expand Pell Grant program for prisoners working on college degrees
Prison inmates around the U.S. are getting the chance to do something that was almost unheard of a generation ago: pursue a college degree while behind bars and with financial support from the federal government. Read more
Changes to come should be ‘music to your ears,’ higher education innovators say
Digital alternatives at residential colleges and other new ways of delivering education have exploded since the pandemic forced schools to shut down in March 2020, forcing a reckoning in a sector already reeling from enrollment declines, rising tuition and unmanageable, often hidden student debt. Read more
Virginia Tech, Xavier latest universities to disenroll students who don’t get COVID vaccine
Virginia Tech and Xavier University in New Orleans are the latest colleges to disenroll students for not following their Covid-19 vaccine mandates. Read more
Equity inspires 66 colleges to expand the reach of open educational resources
Newly launched Institute on Open Educational Resources will support institutions and faculty in adopting OER Read more
Curtains separate male and female Afghan students as new term begins under Taliban rule
A flimsy gray curtain divides a university classroom in Kabul in two — on one side sit the male students, on the other the female students, wearing hijabs. Read more
