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Why Walmart is paying for its employees to go to college
On Wednesday, Walmart announced that it would offer to pay, at least in part, for its 1.4 million employees in the United States—part-time, full-time, and salaried—to go to college, with some restrictions.
Trump’s crackdown on students who overstay visas rattles higher ed
The Trump administration plans to crack down on international students and visitors who overstay their visas, stoking fears in the higher education community that President Trump’s aggressive immigration policies will hinder university efforts to attract the brightest minds from overseas.
Dynamic sustainability teams do these three things
Lately, I have been reflecting on the summer of 2015, the season in which I embarked on a purposeful career in corporate sustainability, fresh after graduating from the environmental science program at North Carolina State University.
Scholarly societies ‘more diverse than universities’
Scientific societies offer an underappreciated avenue for female academics to burst through the glass ceiling, a study suggests.
Fact check: Trump repeats a heap of false, misleading claims at Nashville rally
At a campaign rally in Nashville, President Trump repeated a bushelful of false and misleading claims, and added a few new ones:
DFW Fail
Savannah State professors object to a new, unwritten policy judging their teaching effectiveness by how many D or F grades they give.
After Obama-era crackdown, for-profit colleges seek nonprofit status
Ashford University is one of more than a dozen for-profit colleges across the country looking to become nonprofit institutions, a change that would make them subject to less federal oversight and shed the often-maligned “for-profit” designation.
New Jersey Institute of Technology partners with Woz U
Technology-based education start-up Woz U, announced today a partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), one of only 32 polytechnic universities in the United States.
Synthetic biology hacks the code for sustainability
Biology, the scientific study of life at every level, shows how organisms — from single cells to human bodies — stay diverse and productive over time.
