[ad_1] Duke University announced last week that it would offer full tuition grants starting this fall to students from North and South Carolina whose family income is less than $150,000. The new financial aid policy is notable not just for its high income cap and geographic specificity, but also for its timing. It comes in …
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[ad_1] Belmont University, a Christian institution in Tennessee, has withdrawn an invitation to the Promise Keepers to hold an event on campus, The Baptist Press reported. The university said a blog post by the Promise Keepers about Pride Month justified its decision. The blog post said that “marriage is designed by God to be for …
[ad_1] Former University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann, speaking at commencement in 2015, received almost $23 million upon leaving her job in 2021. Gilbert Carrasquillo/WireImage/Getty Images In 2006, University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann was photographed at a Halloween party standing next to a student dressed as a suicide bomber. The photo went viral, and Gutmann—who …
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[ad_1] For 58 years, the accreditation system of higher education has stood, enshrined in federal law and reaffirmed with each reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Now, a federal lawsuit from the state of Florida is looking to upend that entire system, which is a key part of the federal accountability system that …
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[ad_1] A custodian working at a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute lab destroyed over two decades’ worth of research when he switched off a super-cold freezer while trying to silence an “annoying” alarm, according to a lawsuit filed by RPI against the third-party firm that employed the cleaner. The public university in Troy, N.Y., contends that the …
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[ad_1] The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday that a former Yale student acquitted of raping a fellow student could sue his accuser for defamation, the Associated Press reported. The justices ruled 7 to 0 that Jane Doe, as the accuser is called, is not immune from a defamation lawsuit because the accused had fewer rights …
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[ad_1] Chasing Dreams or Running From Fears? Academic Minute Doug Lederman Tue, 06/27/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Community college administrators say their students want better support when it comes to institutional customer service—and that they’re right for having high expectations, according to a report released Monday. Published by EAB, an education consulting group, the survey results show that 85 percent of leaders agree student expectations have risen since the pandemic. Nearly 100 percent …
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[ad_1] College students are far more willing to talk to their friends about unwanted sexual experiences than they are to campus police, a crisis center or a university employee, according to a new, large-scale survey by Vector Solutions, the nation’s largest provider of sexual violence risk-management training materials for universities. Of the 14 percent of respondents …
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[ad_1] A long-awaited merger of Connecticut’s 12 community colleges is happening July 1. The singular statewide college will be called Connecticut State Community College, NBC Connecticut reported. Students will be able to take classes on all 12 campuses. “Now it’s simply one statewide college with multiple campuses across the state and we’re given the freedom of …
