[ad_1] Thousands of students who attended a now-defunct for-profit college in Colorado will see their federal student loan balances zeroed out after the U.S. Education Department found their college misled them about the salaries they could earn and their job prospects. Department officials said Tuesday that they will discharge $130 million in student loans for 7,400 …
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[ad_1] Federal financial aid continues to be a key source of funding for students going to college, though a lower percentage of students are taking out loans to foot the bill, according to federal data released today as part of a comprehensive national study of student borrowing. The National Center for Education Statistics found in …
[ad_1] Fifty years ago, one of higher education’s foremost researchers, the late Alexander (Sandy) Astin, left his professional home at the American Council on Education for the University of California, Los Angeles—taking his prized creation, the Freshman Survey, with him. The longitudinal survey, an annual look at the experiences, attitudes and behaviors of incoming college …
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[ad_1] As the tremors of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action continue to reverberate across higher education, legacy admits are poised to become the next domino to fall. Yesterday the Education Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policy of preferential admissions treatment for the children of alumni. The …
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[ad_1] Colleges can support student parents’ education by accommodating their unique needs with space and facilities. Student parents make up around 22 percent of all learners in higher education, and over half of them are single parents. As single parents, students often require additional support and resources to juggle both their academics and their responsibilities to …
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[ad_1] Two former athletes sued Northwestern University for its role in reported hazing incidents, CNN reported. The suits are the first to come out of a hazing scandal facing the university’s athletics department. According to one suit, a person who was listed as Jane Doe experienced “hazing, harassment, bullying and retaliation” as a member of …
[ad_1] Governance structures at Catholic colleges and universities are rapidly changing as their sponsoring orders of nuns and priests shrink in size and relinquish some of their historic leadership responsibilities. A new report by the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges details the varied strategies …
[ad_1] For years at Colgate University in New York, students getting an email address “for life” was a given. Then, in February, an email portent arrived—by email, of course: alumni learned that their lifetime email addresses might be phased out next year. “Even with the lead time, people were caught off guard,” said Carl Klauss, …
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[ad_1] As Congress gears up to update the sprawling and expensive farm bill, land-grant institutions want lawmakers to boost research funding and make other investments while advocates representing students are hoping to make food assistance easier to access for students. “If nothing changes in the farm bill, we will continue to have a massive federal …
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[ad_1] Students’ nearly three-month-long University of California, Berkeley, anthropology library occupation ended in some concessions from the university, despite dwindling protester numbers and a lack of faculty support. In February, citing shrinking budgets, the university announced it would close the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library by the end of this year, merging its collections …
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