Low-income students at these colleges tend to earn more in the long run
40-year earnings can exceed $1 million for low-income students who earn associate’s degrees and certificates. Read more
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UCSB student newspaper editors pledge to reject opinion pieces that cause discomfort
Opinion editors at the Daily Nexus, the student-run newspaper at the University of California Santa Barbara, recently pledged to not publish opinion pieces that make people feel uncomfortable or unsafe. Read more
University writing instructors are no longer grading students’ writing
Two writing program lecturers at Boston University recently wrote about the 'ungrading' practices they and their colleagues are following. Read more
Georgetown suspends scholar for tweet against Biden’s ‘affirmative action’ Supreme Court nomination process
Georgetown Law has suspended an incoming administrator for a tweet that criticized President Joe Biden’s public pledge to only nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court to replace Justice Stephen Breyer. Read more
State Higher Ed Funding Tops $100B in Fiscal 2022
Without accounting for inflation, state funding levels increased by 6.5 percent year over year in fiscal 2022. This jump is due in part to ongoing federal support, recovering state revenues and reversals of state funding cuts from earlier in the pandemic. Read more
Course Hero, Ed-Tech Company, Hires Ed-Tech Critic
The platform for sharing course materials is hiring critical digital pedagogy scholar Sean Michael Morris to help it reinvent how it approaches teaching and learning. Read more
‘A vortex of thinking’ – inside the LSE’s brawny, brainy new building
A game of squash, a quick Rachmaninov concert, a brew with a view and then back to studying … the £145m Marshall Building has got the lot, says our writer, even its own Old Curiosity Shop Read more
Dozens of students were mistakenly told they got a full ride scholarship. The university plans ‘to make it right’
Parker Christensen, a high school senior from Newaygo, Michigan, received a notification from Central Michigan University (CMU) on January 21 informing him that he had been awarded a prestigious full-ride scholarship to the university. Read more
University put helmet-clad professor on leave. He is now suing the school.
Barry Mehler is suing Ferris State for, allegedly, violating his first amendment rights following a viral video in which he called students 'vectors of disease' and made profane statements concerning COVID-19 response. Read more
Math professor adopts ‘ungrading’ method: only feedback, no grades on any assignment
An award-winning math professor at Grand Valley State University adopted a method of “ungrading” in his upper-level geometry class last fall, allowing students to “convincingly argue” that they deserve a particular final grade for the course, according to the final grade criteria. Read more
