[ad_1] The popular app TikTok is being restricted from being used on state-owned devices and Wi-Fi networks at many public universities across the nation. A Columbia University free speech group sued Texas governor Greg Abbott and other officials Thursday, contending that the ban on using TikTok on state devices and networks is an attack on …
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[ad_1] Columbia University Press Writing in The New York Times last month, Sara J. Winston, the coordinator of the photography program at Bard College, described the upheaval of having various unpleasant bodily sensations diagnosed as symptoms of multiple sclerosis. She soon began a course of treatment that sounds effective and encouraging, but the condition itself …
[ad_1] A Connecticut Supreme Court decision allowing a former Yale University student who was accused of rape to sue for defamation could have implications that go beyond the scope of cases like it, legal experts say. Some even believe it could influence the legal challenges brought against the Biden administration’s new Title IX rules, set to …
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[ad_1] House Republicans are planning to slash the Education Department’s budget by at least 15 percent, though Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee say the cuts are closer to 30 percent. The Republican proposal would prevent the department from moving forward with its debt-relief plan, which was blocked by the Supreme Court, and carrying out new regulations …
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[ad_1] Sometimes articles crash into each other. This week Josh Kim’s review of Size and Jessica Blake’s piece on mergers within higher ed landed on the same day. They’re worth reading together. It’s hard enough to gain economies of scale in a service industry that relies on relationships. It’s that much harder when enrollments decline. …
[ad_1] House Republicans are pledging to hold to account colleges and universities that don’t report foreign gifts and contracts totaling $250,000 or more, lawmakers on the higher education subcommittee said Thursday. The subcommittee held a hearing to discuss the role of the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign governments on college campuses as well as …
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[ad_1] The University of Minnesota is considering restricting public access to its Twin Cities campus, citing security concerns, Axios Twin Cities reported. If implemented, about 70 buildings currently accessible to the public would require a university ID card to enter. Axios reports that conversations about the proposed change are continuing. Certain buildings that draw high …
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[ad_1] Deborah Casey, vice president of student affairs at Green River College, in Washington State, has been chosen as president of Wor-Wic Community College, in Maryland. Jose E. Coll, dean of the School of Social Work and interim dean of the College of Education at Portland State University, in Oregon, has been selected as provost …
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[ad_1] Debunking the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Academic Minute Doug Lederman Fri, 07/14/2023 – 03:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] I imagine that readers of Inside Higher Ed heard the news that the Gallup survey on public confidence in institutions registered the lowest level of confidence in higher education in the survey’s history. Only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education, “down about 20 percentage points …
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