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International graduate applications rose in 2022

[ad_1] Council of Graduate Schools International graduate applications and new enrollments grew in 2022, according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools. U.S. colleges and universities saw 468,336 applications from outside the U.S. for master’s programs or graduate certificates in 2022, up from 369,829 the year before. The colleges received 221,659 international …

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Oklahoma State receives $120 million gift

[ad_1] Oklahoma State University has announced a $120 million gift from the T. Boone Pickens Foundation. A majority of the funds, $63.7 million, will go to scholarships. Pickens, a longtime donor to Oklahoma State, died in 2019. Most Popular Stories Most Popular [ad_2] Source link

George Mason U professor loses “anti-male bias” suit

[ad_1] A George Mason University professor last week lost his court argument that the institution disciplined him for sexual harassment based on anti-male bias. “The university officials’ statements on which [Todd] Kashdan relies do not plausibly show anti-male bias or demonstrate that anti-male bias was a but-for motivating factor in GMU’s disciplinary actions against him,” …

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New reports assess pandemic’s impact on tuition policies and financial aid for undocumented students

[ad_1] Most states were able to keep financial aid programs at public colleges intact during the pandemic, but they were not able to provide financial aid to undocumented students or make them eligible for in-state tuition. These are among the findings of two new reports released Thursday by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. …

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DeSantis sues Biden administration over accreditation

[ad_1] Higher education’s accreditation system violates the Constitution, Florida governor Ron DeSantis alleges in a new federal lawsuit against the Biden administration that’s aiming to strip accreditors of their authority. “I will not allow Joe Biden’s Department of Education to defund America’s #1 higher education system all because we refuse to bow to unaccountable accreditors …

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Cantonese certificate program stalled at City College of San Francisco

[ad_1] City College of San Francisco was expected to start two new Cantonese certificate programs this fall, a first for a community college and a presumed win for the city’s robust Cantonese-speaking population. But one of the programs was recently delayed by the college’s curriculum committee after faculty members in the world languages and cultures …

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Trustee provided private flights, golf simulator to DeSantis

[ad_1] Florida governor Ron DeSantis has accepted at least a dozen private flights and a costly golf simulator from University of Florida trustee Mori Hosseini, according to The Washington Post. Hosseini has loaned DeSantis a private plane for political events, and in 2019 he took the governor on a golf outing at the famous Augusta …

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