[ad_1] When Bard College president Leon Botstein first met financier Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein was a convicted and registered sex offender. That didn’t stop Botstein from accepting a personal gift of $150,000 from Epstein, which the president then directed to the college as part of his own $1 million gift, The New York Times reported. Epstein’s gift—which …
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[ad_1] California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, has apologized for a student’s death 27 years after it occurred, The San Luis Obispo Tribune reported. In an exclusive interview with the paper, Cal Poly’s current president, Jeffrey Armstrong, said he was sorry for the way the institution responded to the disappearance of Kristin Smart, who …
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[ad_1] Most Americans support affirmative action in college admissions and do not want the Supreme Court to ban it, according a new poll from the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. However, they do not believe applicants’ race should play a major role in whether they are admitted. Of those polled, …
[ad_1] Most Americans support affirmative action in college admissions and do not want the Supreme Court to ban it, according a new poll from the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. However, they do not believe applicants’ race should play a major role in whether they are admitted. Of those polled, …
[ad_1] a small provision on student loans made it into the agreement to raise the federal debt limit. President Biden rejected proposals to eliminate his plan to excuse up to $20,000 of the debt for many student loan borrowers, with income-eligibility requirements and a pending ruling from the Supreme Court. But he agreed to an …
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[ad_1] I’ve always been a fan of “big idea” books. In my preferred style, they take a single idea and spin out its implications across a variety of contexts. Jennifer Silva’s We’re Still Here, Stephanie Kelton’s The Deficit Myth and Susan Cain’s Bittersweet all do that in their respective ways. Tess Wilkinson-Ryan’s Fool Proof is …
[ad_1] The Biden administration officially pushed back to October the release of new regulations regarding Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The final regulations were expected this month based on the Education Department’s regulatory agenda. A coalition of gender justice and survivor advocacy organizations has called on the administration to stick to that timeline, …
[ad_1] Texas legislators approved changes in tenure practices at the state’s public colleges and universities that enshrine the process in state law. While many faculty leaders view the changes as troublesome, they are still relieved, because the Senate had earlier voted to eliminate tenure going forward. Now both the House and Senate have approved the …
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[ad_1] The Common Application, which has more than 1,000 members, will give them the right not to see applicants’ races. At the same time, the Common App will continue to collect the information. The Common App hopes that its new policy will allow colleges, if the Supreme Court bars them from considering race in admissions, …
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[ad_1] South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, a Republican, has proposed that drag shows be banned on public college and university campuses. “Gender theories can and should be debated in college classrooms, but these divisive theories shouldn’t be celebrated through public performances on taxpayer-owned property at taxpayer-funded schools,” she said in a statement. Noem also said, …
