‘How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education’
New book outlines how rich donors have become more assertive about how their money should be used and explores the costs to higher ed.
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New book outlines how rich donors have become more assertive about how their money should be used and explores the costs to higher ed.
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Number and proportion of college and university students taking classes online grew solidly in 2017, as overall postsecondary enrollments fell. A third of all students now take at least one online course.
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Mary Baldwin shut down an art exhibit after two days when some students said images were racist. But artists say their work was about -- but decidedly not supporting -- the glorification of the Confederacy.
The number of new international students fell by 6.6 percent at U.S. universities in fall 2017, and the decline appears to be continuing this fall, according to new data.
A professor at UT San Antonio was recorded calling the police on an African American student who had propped her feet up on the seat in front of her.
An investigation into a Texas community college found that administrators improperly changed nursing students' grades from failing to passing.