Education

[ad_1] Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a non-profit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix, KTVB7 News reported. “We see that this transaction has potential, but we also see that it has risk. And as elected representatives, we on this committee specifically have …

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[ad_1] After a career in higher education spanning more than 50 years, University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ announced last week that she is retiring from her post in June 2024. Christ joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1970, working her way up from a professor in the English department to various administrative positions …

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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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