[ad_1] Columbia University is dropping out of the undergraduate rankings of U.S. News & World Report. The university’s law and medical schools earlier announced that they would not participate, but the undergraduate rankings get more attention. A statement noted that much of the information conveyed in the rankings may be found in the university’s Common Data …
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[ad_1] Paul Gore, who has served as Bellarmine University’s vice president for academic affairs and provost since 2019, is leaving his post, Bellarmine president Susan Donovan told faculty and staff in a message Thursday, The Louisville Courier Journal reported. Gore and Donovan were both the subject of no-confidence votes last month. Faculty are upset over …
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[ad_1] One in five high school students who say they won’t enroll in college cite their doubts about the value of college, up from 8 percent in 2019. This is a finding in a new report from EAB. The report summarizes the results of a new survey of more than 20,000 high school students—those whose college-going …
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[ad_1] When community colleges are called “comprehensive,” it isn’t because they do (or try to do) everything. It’s because their missions encompass both a transfer function and a workforce function. The national higher ed discourse is dominated by elite institutions, so it tends to focus on the transfer function when it notices community colleges at …
[ad_1] A survey of students by Edelman found that they trust professors more than their presidents or DEI officers “when it comes to responding to systemic racism and racial injustice in this country.” Sixty-three percent said they trusted professors, 52 percent trust their DEI officers and 50 percent trust the president. In addition, among the public, colleges and …
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[ad_1] Mississippi auditor Shad White issued a report Thursday that said the state’s public universities spent $23.4 million on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from July of 2019 to now. “There have also been allegations that DEI staffers are duplicative of other human resources staff and are therefore a waste of money,” said White. “In light …
[ad_1] The University of Connecticut has expelled “several” students who were arrested for vandalism after the university won a men’s basketball championship game in April, Sports Illustrated reported. Those arrested were accused of smashing windows, damaging a police cruiser, flipping over a van and vandalizing light posts, and most of them also were charged with …
