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McDonald’s, Ivy Tech strike education pact
McDonald’s restaurants and Ivy Tech Community College across Indiana have launched an alliance to make college more affordable and offer training for the workforce that will be shared at more than 300 McDonald’s locations and 18 Ivy Tech campuses with 40 sites.
Cookies crumbling as Google phases them out
Google is to restrict the number of advertising cookies on websites accessed via its Chrome browser, in response to calls for greater privacy controls.
Competition drives researchers to counselling – and exit door
Poll of 4,000 researchers reveals half have sought or wanted help for mental health problems, and four in 10 are victims of bullying or harassment
Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer flashes Trump, McConnell profanity-laced sign
When President Trump held a rally in Battle Creek, MI, last month, Kellogg Community College’s Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer Jorge Zeballos protested outside the arena holding a sign saying, “F**K TRUMP, F**K McConnell, F**K GRAHAM.”
Professor defends call to institute grading curve to shrink gender gap in STEM
An economics professor at Duke University is defending his and his colleagues’ calls to institute grading curves in science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses in order to recruit more women into those fields, claiming that the “large differences in grading practices [between types of courses] should be evened out.”
New York State Wants to Double Its Beer Tax and Give It to Colleges
Beer and college often go together. But doubling New York’s beer tax to benefit higher education is up for debate.
Australian academics debate long-term impact of bushfire crisis
As universities help to shoulder the disaster response, experts say the ultimate outcomes from a tragic summer are hard to predict
Windows 10: NSA reveals major flaw in Microsoft’s code
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has discovered a major flaw in Windows 10 that could have been used by hackers to create malicious software that looked legitimate.
Eyeing future profits
New businesses focused on the marketing rights to the name, image and likeness of college athletes are emerging in anticipation of an NCAA rule change, which has yet to be adopted.
