Tell students to read tabloids ‘to help heal educational divide’
Academics should encourage their students to read tabloid newspapers and teach them that they are part of a “specific social milieu” of highly educated people
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Purdue Tackles Job Training
University touts new deal to train for IT outsourcing firm’s U.S. hiring push, but faculty balk at lack of control over curriculum.
Malala Yousafzai ‘so excited’ to go to University of Oxford
Malala Yousafzai says she is "so excited" after being accepted to study at the world famous University of Oxford.
Fla. universities hiring hundreds of faculty in push for smaller classes, more prestige
Ambition defines the University of South Florida, where enrollment has surged so fast that the number of professors has not kept pace.
After Charlottesville and Trump, renewed focus on statues of racists
At some colleges, a debate is revived. In some states, laws will make change difficult.
University fossil fuel divestment total tips £80 billion globally
UK universities have emerged as world leaders on fossil fuel divestment as the total value of funds being withdrawn by higher education institutions globally tips £80 billion.
Acosta calls for national apprenticeship programs
Apprenticeship programs jointly developed by community colleges and businesses – and scaled up on a nationwide basis ...
Cleveland Cannabis College curriculum expanding this fall
A year shy of Ohio’s medical marijuana program becoming operational, Cleveland Cannabis College is expanding it’s curriculum in the hopes of helping to fill the thousands of jobs that could be created with the budding industry.
North Korea’s ‘Western’ university at risk as tensions rise
North Korea’s only Western-run university may be forced to shut down when the US bans its citizens from travelling to the secretive state, one of its senior academics has warned.
How Tenn. plans to use its FAFSA strategy to boost college grad rates
Tennessee notched another win for its approach to financial aid last week, but exemplary performance in that arena has done little to solve a more persistent challenge students face on college campuses.
