Free speech bill VETOED in Montana, but not all hope is lost..
Montana's Democrat governor recently vetoed a campus free speech bill.
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Universities ‘contribute little to generic skill development’
Schools take credit for majority of literacy and numeracy development
Higher education staff suffer ‘epidemic’ of poor mental health
The number of university workers accessing counselling and occupational health services has shot up, according to research which describes “an epidemic” of poor mental health among higher education staff.
High school and college STEM students build electric cars for kids with disabilities for free
A group of high school and college students from Connecticut have come together to build something extraordinary: Fully-functioning electric carts for families who may not be able to afford adaptive wheelchairs.
Division III school ‘involuntarily removed’ from conference because it won too much
A Division III athletic conference booted one of its founding members Wednesday, apparently because the school had become too dominant across multiple sports.
Whose dissertation is it, anyway?
Balking at a requirement to upload a copy of his doctoral thesis to an online database run by library services company ProQuest, one student pushes back.
STUDY: White liberals’ sympathy for poor whites DECREASES after white privilege lessons, sympathy for blacks stays same
Professors and a scholar out of the University of Kentucky, Colgate University and New York University conducted a study on white privilege.
First the worst? Lead authors ‘should take misconduct blame’
Holding ‘probably innocent’ co-authors responsible for research wrongdoing cannot be justified, say academics
ED to expand Pell for prisoners pilot program
The U.S. Education Department (ED) is launching a new Federal Work-Study (FWS) pilot program that will include apprenticeships, as well as expanding a pilot program that allows eligible inmates to use Pell grants for a college education.
Beefing Up the College Scorecard
Trump administration releases new program-level data on student loans in update to College Scorecard, a first step toward producing outcomes for all college programs.
