‘Far-Reaching Consequences’
U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling extending protections against employment discrimination to LGBTQ people has implications for how colleges define sex and enforce gender equality on campus.
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Renewed sense of urgency for ‘adulting’ courses
Meeting the need for life skills lessons for young adults in the age of COVID-19, with financial management and other topics being more important than ever.
More US universities end use of standardised tests in admissions
Caltech suspends requirement for two years while University of Washington commits to long-term shift in entry criteria
Cheating allegations prompt South Korean online exam rethink
Some of the country’s most prestigious universities may return to in-person exams following newspaper report
Half of Ivy League schools lower their admissions standards
Cornell, Dartmouth,Columbia, and UPenn suspended their standardized testing requirements for students applying in the 2020-21 school year.
Emergency Grant Limit Blocked in Washington State
A federal judge in Washington State has blocked the Education Department's rule limiting which college students are eligible for emergency grants but left in place a ban on undocumented students getting the aid.
Pressure rises for universities to anticipate in-demand jobs
As record numbers of Americans lose their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, Kathleen Perlmutter has been desperately trying to turn out enough graduates to fill a critical shortage of workers.
Harvard professor’s research: ‘Defunding the police could cost thousands of black lives’
Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives.
Universities everywhere are concerned about a ‘virus,’ but not the one you think
Colleges all over the country are adopting similar language, comparing the “racism” virus to the virus that causes COVID-19.
Is Zoom Safe for Chinese Students?
Scholars raise concerns about teaching on Zoom after it acceded to Chinese government demands to shut down activists' accounts. Zoom says it will develop technology to block users by geography.
