DeVos: Black Colleges Are ‘Pioneers’ of ‘School Choice’
Education secretary's remarks astound many advocates for colleges that were created because black students were denied choices.
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College endowments suffer ‘lost decade’
Officials overseeing endowments at some of Indiana’s smaller colleges and universities have cut back on spending, or are considering doing so, after struggling to grow the size of their funds over the past decade.
Sweet Briar ‘town hall’ updates community on reset
Resurrected from the brink of closure in 2015, Sweet Briar College officials are working to keep the private all-women’s school alive, despite ongoing challenges.
Scholars ‘more reluctant’ to travel to US under Trump
“Some of our friends couldn’t make it.”
UK’s ‘lower-ranked’ universities take non-EU students hit
About half of UK universities have lost international student numbers since the Conservatives entered power in 2010, with the losses across those institutions totalling 43,000 students and focused in “middle and lower-ranked universities”.
Palomar College offers free tuition
Palomar College wants incoming students to go to school for free. The north San Diego County community college announced its Palomar Promise program Wednesday.
DeVos vs. the Faculty
Professors tell students "what to say, and more ominously, what to think," new education secretary says in her first sustained criticism of higher education.
Lone hacker Rasputin breaches 60 universities
A hacker has compromised at least 60 universities and US government organizations, utilzing SQL injections as his weapon of choice.
University hit 21 times in one year by ransomware
Universities and NHS trusts in England have been hit hard by ransomware in the last year ...
Young academics’ research ‘elegant but not interesting’
Young researchers at Western universities are increasingly writing “safe” and “conservative” papers due to the pressure to get published...
