Bounty of Promise Programs in California
With nearly 50 different local tuition-free initiatives, California colleges contemplate how they may merge existing programs with a new statewide plan.
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‘Macho’ men skew pain sensitivity studies, research suggests
“Macho” men who exhibit alpha-male competitiveness and aggression may be skewing pain research by being more likely to volunteer to be tested on their pain responses, a study suggests.
House Passes GOP Tax Plan
Plan targets large endowments of private colleges and eliminates many deductions benefiting student loan borrowers and graduate students.
College roommate not wanted
Colleges and universities face growing pressure to offer students single rooms.
Fear of Accented English
Students outside the U.S. doubt reliability of instruction in English that is not from native speakers, study finds.
UK research grant success rates rise for first time in five years
The success rate for grant proposals at UK research councils has increased for the first time in five years, ending a steady downward trend that saw high numbers of applications rejected.
St. Gregory’s University: Area colleges offer hand to displaced SGU students
In the coming weeks, St. Gregory’s University (SGU) students will be scrambling to get back on track after receiving news Wednesday that the school is suspending operations after the fall semester ends.
Talks underway on college student fraud-protection rules
Education Department officials opened formal negotiations on Monday to rewrite federal rules meant to protect students from fraud by colleges and universities.
An all-online Calif. community college may be coming
A proposal that advocates hope will use online courses to help the job prospects of about 2 million working class Californians got its first hearing in Sacramento on Monday.
Students ‘don’t trust lecturers who aren’t native speakers’
Academic warns universities need to take impact of accent on credibility seriously as it has ‘demotivated’ overseas lecturers
