Congressional Democrats want legal review of OPMs
The lawmakers want the Education Department to go beyond what a federal watchdog recommended in reviewing 2011 guidance for online program managers. Read more
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FBI director defends investigations of Chinese academics in front of university audience
Speaking at one of America’s leading public universities, FBI Director Christopher Wray offered a full-throated defense Friday of the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute academic fraud linked to China, saying that there is no “more serious, more persistent threat to our innovation, our ideas and our economic security than the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.” Read more
What Will Happen to ‘U.S. News’ Rankings?
Some think (and many hope) that the move of law schools away from the publication will prompt undergraduate colleges to do the same. But no new challenges have emerged on undergraduate rankings … thus far. Read more
Professor under fire for teaching gender is a spectrum
A professor is under review for teaching her students that gender is a spectrum and that sex is not a dichotomy. Read more
UChicago announces ‘The Problem with Whiteness’ course
The University of Chicago (UChicago) is offering a course to students titled “The Problem Of Whiteness” during the Spring 2023 semester, according to the school’s course catalog. Read more
Giving Tuesday: Despite economic distress, colleges raise millions
Even at the height of the pandemic Giving Tuesday proved to be an overwhelming success for colleges and universities, with more than $10.5 million being raised in 2020 on the annual day of giving. Predictably, that trend hasn’t changed. Read more
Academia is adrift in a sea of low standards
“Something indeed is seriously amiss in U.S. higher education,” says Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, authors of the book Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Read more
NIH looks to slim down peer review in bid for equity
Top provider of basic research funding to US higher education hopes that a narrower set of evaluation criteria will aid black scientists and better retain expert reviewers Read more
100+ colleges got an “A” for scholarship transparency. Is yours among them?
The colleges that rank highest for the most transparent merit scholarships provide clear, easily accessible information on the awards and the criteria they use, according to a new analysis. These leading schools also figure merit scholarships into their Net Price Calculator projections. Read more
Court blocks Biden’s student loan plan
Texas judge Mark Pittman, who, on November 10, paused the forgiveness program, charging the executive with 'unconstitutionally exercise[ing] ‘legislative powers’ vested in Congress.' Read more
