Lifelong loans: traditional degrees ‘elephant in the room’ in debate
Costly residential degrees will eat up LLE funding, leaving ‘difficult choices about how to divide up the cake’, warns OU v-c in Hepi paper Read more
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Federal student aid funding woes complicate resuming student loan payments
Experts and advocates worry that the Education Department lacks adequate funds and won’t be able to prevent high rates of default and delinquency when student loan payments eventually turn back on. Read more
Minnesota’s “bold action to make college affordable” results in free tuition
Beginning in the 2024-25 academic year, legislative negotiators have reached a deal to make college tuition free for residents whose families make less than $80,000 a year. Read more
REPORT: BDS movement is the ‘brainchild of the progressive left…and academia’
Ian Oxnevad from the National Association of Scholars told Campus Reform that the “biggest source” of anti-Semitism in American culture is the progressive left, and in particular leftist academia. Read more
SUNY adds mandatory DEI social justice course to graduation requirements
The State University of New York will institute a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice course into its core curriculum across its 64 campuses beginning next fall for every incoming student. Read more
Slimming Down to Stay Afloat
Projecting an enrollment nosedive, West Virginia University is preparing for a lean future. Some call it an act of surrender, while others say it’s a prudent choice to be replicated elsewhere. Read more
Hong Kong schools in crisis as teachers and students flee ‘toxic’ political climate
In a few weeks’ time, eight-year-old Peter* will say goodbye to his school friends as he moves to Britain with his parents. In the past few years, Hong Kong children have got used to seeing more and more of their friends leaving the city. Read more
Online students: Who are they and how can you win more of them?
Thirty percent of all students enrolled in higher education in 2021 were enrolled online, according to the National Center of Higher Education Statistics. That’s nearly six million students. With the pandemic normalizing online education, this cohort may grow. Read more
Penn State funds ‘decolonial graphic novel’ and other CRT art projects
Pennsylvania State University’s College of Arts and Architecture created a “racial-justice grants” program for projects that “[seek] to understand racial and social inequities and structural injustice in the United States and beyond.” Read more
Academics Win Pulitzers in Arts and Letters
A number of the Pulitzer Prize winners in arts and letters announced Monday have strong ties to academe. Read more
