[ad_1] Unlike when Dogecoin’s Shiba Inu briefly replaced it, it seems Twitter’s longstanding bird logo is genuinely having its last curtain call. Elon Musk and Twitter (or should we say X?) CEO Linda Yaccarino announced that the company was rebranding as “X” and projected the new emblem onto the company’s San Francisco headquarters. So far, …
[ad_1] A new working paper suggests that highly selective private colleges could change the makeup of their student bodies (and the future leaders of the country) by changing their admissions practices. The paper is by Raj Chetty, director of the Public Economics Program at Harvard University; David J. Deming, a research associate at Harvard; and …
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[ad_1] The sharp growth in dual enrollment has raised a lot of questions about course content and whether students are really producing college-level work. John Fink, an expert in dual enrollment at the Community College Research Center, acknowledged that quality is uneven. That’s not surprising when 80% of high schools are now offering these courses …
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[ad_1] New Programs: Special Education, Finance, Cannabis, Management Scott Jaschik Mon, 07/24/2023 – 03:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Rice College president Reginald DesRoches launched his career as a civil engineer–turned–higher ed administrator back in the early 1980s, when he joined a summer bridge program for students from underrepresented backgrounds before his freshman year at the University of California, Berkeley. The program was made up of about 90 percent students of color, he said, …
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[ad_1] A state appeals court has unanimously ruled that the University of Michigan is within its rights to ban weapons on campus, The Detroit Free Press reported. In the judges’ opinion, it “is constitutionally permissible because laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places are consistent with the Second Amendment.” The case dates to …
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[ad_1] Mark Tykocinski has resigned as president of Thomas Jefferson University and as dean of the university’s medical school, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Tykocinski has only been president for a year. He will stay on as a full professor. In May, he apologized after coming under fire for liking tweets critical of coronavirus vaccines, gender-affirmation …
[ad_1] Rutgers University’s University Senate voted no confidence in President Jonathan Holloway over plans to merge the university’s two medical schools, at New Brunswick and at Newark, NorthJersey.com reported. The faculty of the two medical schools appears opposed to the merger, and they say their concerns have been ignored. The resolution also called for Holloway …
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[ad_1] iStockPhoto/Inside Higher Ed The members of the American Anthropological Association have endorsed a resolution to boycott Israeli academic institutions. An all-member referendum took place from June 15 to July 14, and the results were announced today. Thirty-seven percent of eligible members voted. Of them, 2,016 voted for the resolution (71 percent) and 835 people voted against …
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[ad_1] I read with interest the report on a new study from North Dakota State University on students’ hypothetical willingness to report professors who say “offensive” things. As a longtime administrator, I can count the number of student complaints about professorial speech on one hand and have fingers left over. It hasn’t happened with anything …
