Pushing Public Higher Ed Boundaries
Purdue’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries -- especially among faculty groups -- about blurred lines between public and private higher ed.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters extends mentoring into the college years
Miguel Vasquez is a busy man — a commercial real estate consultant and father of a 3-year-old — but has managed to devote time to mentor a teenage boy through Big Brothers Big Sisters of Orange County and the Inland Empire.
How this college for inmates is going outside the prison wall
Nationally, nearly half of all inmates released from prison return there after committing another crime.
J-Schools Dump Accreditor
Northwestern’s journalism school drops its accreditor, shortly after Berkeley did the same, echoing broader questions about the value of the process and whether it impedes innovation.
UK university donations surpass £1 billion for first time
The value of donations pledged to UK universities has increased by 23 per cent in the space of a year, exceeding £1 billion for the first time, according to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education Europe.
Congressional budget deal wards off Trump’s wish list of higher ed cuts
A bipartisan bill to fund the government through the end of September protects higher-education programs that are under threat from the 2018 White House budget proposal
Who Defines Expertise?
Accreditor’s new rules are forcing a professor who has taught philosophy for 50 years to stop doing so, because her Ph.D. is in English. Many object.
US Congress rejects Trump’s proposed research funding cuts
US congressional leaders have announced a 6 per cent budget increase for the National Institutes of Health, just weeks after Donald Trump proposed for its funding allocation to decline by 18 per cent.
First Amendment advocates give campus speech bill mixed reviews
First Amendment watchdogs say a Republican bill that would require University of Wisconsin System officials to punish students and employees who interrupt speeches could help address what they see as growing hostility to opposing ideas among some on college campuses.
Majority of qualified poor students in US ‘not at elite colleges’
The majority of low-income students in the US who are qualified to attend selective universities go to open-access colleges instead, according to a report that shows that most elite institutions could increase enrolment of poor students without significantly hurting their academic standards, graduation rates or budgets.
