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University of Miami shuns links with Cuba under local pressure
The thaw in relations between the US and Cuba under President Barack Obama has led many universities in both countries to seek new academic partnerships, and this has continued despite the more hostile climate created by the Trump administration.
Department Lays Out Options for Charlotte Students
As Charlotte School of Law officially announces it will shut down, the Department of Education sets out potential options for former students. Those who withdrew from the troubled program before the spring will face a tougher path to discharging federal student loans.
UC Irvine to readmit admission offers withdrawn for transcript problems
UC Irvine, under fire for rescinding nearly 500 admission offers, announced Wednesday that it would readmit all students who maintained good senior-year grades but whose acceptances were revoked because of alleged paperwork problems, such as missing deadlines to submit transcripts.
China: University to abolish mixed-gender dorm policy
A university in South China's Guangzhou city recently decided to remove its mixed-gender dorm arrangement, but not all students have welcomed the move.
E.M.B.A.s Under Pressure
Executives, with financial support from their companies, once paid top dollar for special versions of the M.B.A. hosted by business schools at urban locations far from campus. The support is dwindling, and online competition is growing, challenging what had been a source of revenue for some business schools.
Saddleback College to offer helping hand to children, vets
Adhering to the name “community college,” Saddleback College students will soon offer a helping hand to children and, soon after, veterans in need through three-dimensional printing.
Liberty alumni return diplomas in protest of Trump remarks
Dozens of Liberty University alumni plan to return their diplomas in protest after the university’s leader, Jerry Falwell Jr., defended President Trump’s response to the white supremacist rally and deadly car attack in Charlottesville, Va.
India shelves branch campus ‘pipe dream’ for domestic ‘eminence’
A plan by India to create 20 domestic “institutions of eminence”, with potentially significant implications for the country's place in global higher education, has been hailed as a more sustainable development model than shelved plans to invite in foreign universities.
Should Grad Students Publish?
Two vastly different disciplines consider whether there are too many journal articles these days, and whether graduate student publishing is part of the problem. Some see that analysis as shortsighted.
