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[ad_1] MIT Exonerates Professor—After 3.5-Year Wait Featured Image at Top of Article GettyImages-698740028(1).jpg Ryan Quinn Tue, 06/20/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Florida governor Ron DeSantis will cut $120 million of higher education funding from the state budget—nearly a quarter of the half-billion dollars in funding requests he rejected through line-item vetoes last week.  Many of the projects and programs cut centered on workforce development in crucial areas of the state economy. That includes $20 million for a …

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[ad_1] Colleges are still waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on affirmative action in their admissions programs. A final decision is expected in the next two weeks. As they wait, college and university officials are continuing to explore what they will do to enroll diverse classes in the likely event that Harvard University …

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[ad_1] Seattle Pacific University has announced plans to cut its academic budget by 40 percent in the next year, The Seattle Times reported. The cuts will mostly be achieved through faculty layoffs. The university blamed falling enrollment for the cuts. “My heart is breaking,” said Jeffrey Overstreet, an assistant professor of English and a former student …

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[ad_1] Colleges and universities and those representing them in Washington, D.C., are concerned about a set of proposals from the Education Department that could potentially usher in a new era of accountability for all types of programs. Under the plan, the department would report more data about all programs on students’ debt loads and earnings …

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[ad_1] For Father’s Day, my daughter took me on a walking tour of Princeton and offered to pay for any book I wanted at Labyrinth Books. I picked Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, by Henry Grabar.  My wife thought that was the most preposterous thing she had seen in years.   It’s worth reading. …

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[ad_1] Seton Hall University is expanding its Africana studies program after students took over the president’s office for several days last month to demand change, NorthJersey.com reported. The director of the program and its only full-time faculty member left in December, leaving adjuncts to teach. Seton Hall has started a search for a new director …

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[ad_1] The Council on American-Islamic Relations is criticizing El Camino College for the way it responded to a speech at commencement this year. “The administration’s attempt to conflate Jana Abulaban’s  legitimate criticism of Israeli human rights violations with antisemitism is both dishonest and misleading,” said a statement from Hussam Ayloush, executive director of CAIR–Los Angeles. …

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[ad_1] Controversial consolidations of multiple public institutions in Vermont and Connecticut have earned the key step of initial accreditation from the New England Commission of Higher Education. In statements published Monday, the accrediting agency said it had granted approval for Connecticut’s 12 community colleges to operate as one institution and for three formerly separate public …

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[ad_1] Today on the Academic Minute: Ryayo Terao, associate professor in the department of entertainment technology at New York City College of Technology, part of the City University of New York, explores how simple things can have big stories to tell. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. And if you missed Monday’s episode on …

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