[ad_1] Thousands of students who attended a now-defunct for-profit college in Colorado will see their federal student loan balances zeroed out after the U.S. Education Department found their college misled them about the salaries they could earn and their job prospects. Department officials said Tuesday that they will discharge $130 million in student loans for 7,400 …
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[ad_1] Federal financial aid continues to be a key source of funding for students going to college, though a lower percentage of students are taking out loans to foot the bill, according to federal data released today as part of a comprehensive national study of student borrowing. The National Center for Education Statistics found in …
[ad_1] Fifty years ago, one of higher education’s foremost researchers, the late Alexander (Sandy) Astin, left his professional home at the American Council on Education for the University of California, Los Angeles—taking his prized creation, the Freshman Survey, with him. The longitudinal survey, an annual look at the experiences, attitudes and behaviors of incoming college …
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[ad_1] Almost every Sunday morning, as part of my routine, I try to go to an 8 a.m. yoga class. I enjoy this class because of its flows. We start off slowly, transitioning from the chaos of the everyday lives we have left behind, into the intention and message of the day, and then into …
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[ad_1] As the tremors of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action continue to reverberate across higher education, legacy admits are poised to become the next domino to fall. Yesterday the Education Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policy of preferential admissions treatment for the children of alumni. The …
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[ad_1] The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters by Juliette Kayyem Published in March 2022 The book that has had the most significant impact on how I think about my higher ed job is Bryan Alexander’s Universities on Fire. In that book, Bryan connects the macro trends related to climate …
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[ad_1] The word happenstance has appeared in 47 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on June 19 in the Opinion essay “Cormac McCarthy Had a Remarkable Literary Career. It Could Never Happen Now” by Dan Sinykin: Then something remarkable happened. In 1992, after a career spent eking out a living, Mr. McCarthy had …
[ad_1] Colleges can support student parents’ education by accommodating their unique needs with space and facilities. Student parents make up around 22 percent of all learners in higher education, and over half of them are single parents. As single parents, students often require additional support and resources to juggle both their academics and their responsibilities to …
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[ad_1] The recent politicizing of–well, almost everything–has put education on the frontline of issues ranging from COVID to widely misunderstood issues like critical race theory. Among the most visible effects has been the banning of books. Or ‘book banning’ or ‘book policing.’ What is book banning? Book banning and book policing are related but distinct …
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[ad_1] What Social Media Challenges Do Online Learners Face? With the outstanding technological advancements of the last decades, the presence of social media has grown stronger in many areas of our lives, from entertainment to making a living. More recently, it has entered the world of learning and education, changing our habits and giving us …
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