[ad_1] Paul Smith’s College no longer plans to be purchased by the Fedcap Group, which works to provide job training to low-income students, among other things, The Adirondack Explorer reported. Daniel Kelting, the interim president, told the campus that the college had withdrawn its application for regulators to approve the purchase. That decision came shortly after …
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[ad_1] Connecticut attorney general William Tong filed suit Friday against the Stone Academy, a failed for-profit college; the Paier College of Art, another for-profit; and their owner, Joseph Bierbaum. Tong is simultaneously asking a state court to attach multiple millions of dollars of Stone’s and Bierbaum’s assets during the pendency of this litigation, including Bierbaum’s …
[ad_1] Other people’s horror stories of flying are notoriously tedious, so I’ll try to focus on the part of the story that seems both new and revealing. I had occasion to visit Des Moines last week. It’s over 1,000 miles from New Jersey, so I had to fly. The trip went well, and I liked …
[ad_1] A federal suit filed by 11 former faculty members at Emporia State University charges that they lost their jobs because they had tenure, The Kansas Reflector reported. The suit is against top administrators and members of the Kansas Board of Regents. “These defendants saw tenure as an impediment to terminating tenured faculty who were ‘problematic’ concerning …
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[ad_1] Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona announced the administration’s plan to forgive $39 billion in loans for more than 800,000 borrowers in income-driven repayment plans. Win McNamee/Getty Images More than 804,000 borrowers will have their student loans forgiven in the next month following moves by the Biden administration to count more payments toward forgiveness. The …
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[ad_1] Public domain image via RawPixel Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action policy in the Grutter case. I served as dean of the law school when we applied and defended that policy. The decision in the Students for Fair Admission case did not overrule Grutter. Instead, …
[ad_1] The latest budget proposal from House Republicans would eliminate funding for 60 programs including Federal Work-Study—cuts that have left higher education groups concerned. “We are very concerned and we are appalled by the elimination of programs that we’ve seen,” said Emmanual Guillory, senior director of government relations at the American Council on Education. “Cutting …
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[ad_1] A federal suit filed by 11 former faculty members at Emporia State University charges that they lost their jobs because they had tenure, The Kansas Reflector reported. The suit is against top administrators and members of the Kansas Board of Regents. “These defendants saw tenure as an impediment to terminating tenured faculty who were …
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[ad_1] The University of Idaho will not demolish the house where four of its students were killed in November until this October. Scott Green, president of the university, announced the delay Wednesday. “We know that every action and decision around this horrific incident is painful and invokes emotions. That is why every decision we have made this …
