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The report released today also recommended the salary schedule be reduced from 30 steps to 25, which would give faculty at least a 2 percent ongoing increase. If the recommendations are accepted, faculty would receive retroactive increases of 2 percent to July 1, 2017, 2 percent to July 1, 2018 and a 4 percent increase beginning Tuesday.
In 2011, then-Texas Governor Rick Perry called on the Lone Star State’s public four-year universities to craft affordable bachelor’s degrees, what the Governor labeled at the time, “$10,000 degrees.”
The numbers are staggeringly low: Only one college in Texas graduated more than 100 African-American men in 2016.
The Education and Culture ministry plans to include lessons on basic life skills, such as disaster mitigation and countering radicalism, in a new curriculum.
The U.S. Olympic Committee fired its chief of sport performance Monday, immediately after publishing an investigation that found major issues with how the organization responded to specific sexual assault allegations made against disgraced doctor Larry Nassar and the environment that its governance structure created for reporting sexual abuse in general.
It seems as though we now get a steady stream of reports, statements, musings and other expressions of the sentiment that college isn’t worth the money.
More than 2,500 South Carolina students who attended classes at the for-profit Career Education Corp. won’t have to repay them, according to a settlement between the company and 48 attorneys general throughout the country.
Four U.S. Senate Democrats — including expected presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) — are seeking feedback from more than 100 stakeholders on how to improve federal policies for student borrowers of color and make access to higher education more equitable.
High school seniors across the country have just wrapped up their college applications, and are undoubtedly anxious for decision time this spring. This year, some students worked hard to present themselves a little differently, amid an ongoing suit against Harvard University, which claims Harvard’s admissions policies unfairly discriminate against Asian American applicants.
A mistake in Republicans’ tax overhaul is allowing many state universities to escape a crackdown on highly paid executives.
