[ad_1] A visiting history professor at New College of Florida who criticized NCF’s Board of Trustees and interim president—as well as Governor Ron DeSantis’s efforts to reshape higher education in the state—is out after the administration decided not to renew his contract, Miami New Times reported. The decision reportedly leaves NCF without a faculty member …
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[ad_1] A proposed ban to limit when colleges and universities can withhold a student’s transcript could help thousands of students, if not more than a million, access their credits and resume their college education, experts and advocates say. “It’s a modest but important step,” said Martin Kurzweil, vice president of educational transformation at Ithaka S+R, …
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[ad_1] A jury has awarded $240,000 in damages to two blind students who sued the Los Angeles Community College District. The jury concluded that the district violated the Americans With Disabilities Act in 14 different ways, according to a press release from Brown, Goldstein & Levy, the law firm representing the students. The students, Portia …
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[ad_1] North Idaho College president Nick Swayne has won a lawsuit allowing him to be permanently reinstated to his position after a majority of the Board of Trustees removed him earlier this year for unclear reasons. A judge found last week that trustees had violated the terms of Swayne’s employment contract when they placed him …
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[ad_1] To the editor: I have been following conversations surrounding AI generation of writing with a wait-and-see attitude since the beginning of the year but recently had cause to reconsider the urgency of the subject following an incident in one of my own classes. I agree with Ali Lincoln’s recent piece “ChatGPT: A Different Kind …
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[ad_1] To the editor: Ryan Craig’s opinion piece on student swapping by flagship publics (June 2) omits an important fact: if all public colleges limited out-of-state enrollment, it wouldn’t provide any extra spaces for poor kids in their home states. Instead, the elite rich kids banned from swapping would simply attend the flagships in their …
[ad_1] Some new trustees at the University of Virginia are pushing for the university to collect information about the political views of the faculty and students, The Daily Progress reported. At a Board of Visitors meeting Friday, Douglas Wetmore, who was appointed to the board by Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, last year, questioned why …
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[ad_1] What would you say are the biggest challenges facing the U.S. today? Possible answers might be rising inequality, persistent poverty, inflation or crime. Perhaps you might answer political polarization. Anyone who reads Bryan Alexander’s extraordinary book Universities on Fire might nominate climate change. While most of us would undoubtedly include those issues on any …
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[ad_1] At the University of Utah campus store, traditional sports team merchandise is interspersed with hoodies, key chains and hats emblazoned with rainbow letter U’s, celebrating LGBTQ+ pride. To acknowledge Pride Month, the store’s website is promoting these items on the homepage, calling on shoppers to “celebrate equality” by shopping the pride collection. Ien Zielinski, …
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[ad_1] Admissions News in Recent Weeks Scott Jaschik Mon, 06/05/2023 – 12:00 AM [ad_2] Source link
