Education

[ad_1] Many people with disabilities see entrepreneurship as the most feasible pathway toward a successful career. According to recent data, one in five enrolled undergraduate students (and 12 percent of enrolled graduate students) in the United States reports having a disability. However, that number is likely higher, as a 2022 report from the National Center for …

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[ad_1] Institutions’ contributions to full-time faculty members’ health and retirement benefits significantly declined in real dollars over the pandemic and still haven’t returned to their pre-2020 levels, the American Association of University Professors says in a new report. “There were big differences between public and private institutions dealing with, say, medical insurance,” said Glenn Colby, …

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[ad_1] Months after announcing plans to explore an affiliation, Drexel University and Salus University will move forward with a merger, scheduled to be completed by next summer, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Governing boards for both universities have already signed off on the proposal, and now the two institutions are awaiting regulatory approvals that will allow …

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[ad_1] An associate professor of math at Morgan State University is being investigated by the historically Black university after he asked Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender and financier, for $5 million to endow a chair for women in mathematics at the university, The Baltimore Sun reported. Jonathan Farley, the professor, reached out to Epstein in …

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[ad_1] Two of those who were shot and survived the February shootings at Michigan State University have sued the university, WILX News reported. “The university’s decision to ignore complaints-regarding the lack of restrictions, the general and public access to campus buildings, and the failure to correct known defective conditions and security measures resulted in an …

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[ad_1] Shah Ardalan, president of Lone Star College–University Park, in Texas, has been chosen as president of Randolph Community College, in North Carolina. Jenifer Cushman, chancellor of Pennsylvania State University’s Beaver campus, has been appointed president of the University of Maine at Augusta. Erika Endrijonas, superintendent/president of Pasadena City College, in California, has been selected …

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[ad_1] A Mayo Clinic medical school department chair, in a letter a free speech group shared online, threatened to fire a professor after a CNN interview in which he criticized the National Institutes of Health for not backing a COVID-19 treatment and after a New York Times interview where he suggested testosterone improves athletic performance. …

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[ad_1] Connecticut College last week named trustee Les Wong interim president to replace Katherine Bergeron, who is stepping down at the end of June in the wake of a fundraising fiasco that prompted campus protests earlier this year. Faculty are not happy with the choice. They don’t question Wong’s credentials; he previously led San Francisco …

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[ad_1] Internship participation declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research from the Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions. While 26.4 percent of undergraduates completed an internship in the 2019–20 academic year, only 22 percent did so in 2021–22, according to the College Internship Study, a longitudinal study that surveyed 554 students across three predominantly white …

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[ad_1] Student workers at Western Washington University have voted to unionize by a margin of 98 percent, according to a press release by the union, known as Western Academic Workers United–UAW. The union will be composed of 1,100 tutors, teaching assistants, research assistants and other students who do research and instructional work for the university. The …

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