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As Median Income Drops, Dependence on Pell Grants Rises
Inside Higher Education details the increase in the number of families and students dependent upon Pell Grant funding for education, which has grown from 6.1 million to 8.2 million between 2008 and 2014, according to U.S. Department of Education statistics. The increase in qualifying recipients parallels the decline of the average household income for recipients, […]
September 27, 2016
Policy
Accreditors Will Take Hard Line on Graduation Rates
A new initiative from the Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions will examine four-year colleges and universities with graduation rates of 25% or lower, and two-year schools with 15% or lower graduation rates, more closely. The plan, which follows the collapse of ITT Tech for its alleged fraudulent recruitment and degree-granting practices, seeks to aid the […]
September 27, 2016
Veterans
San Antonio Cyber Warrior Program Receives Federal Funding
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has received federal funding in the amount of $471,549 to support its top-tier Army Reserve Cyber Private Public Partnership Program (Cyber P3i). UTSA, tapped by the United States Army Reserve as a founding member of the program in 2015, will produce highly qualified cyber warriors with advanced […]
September 27, 2016
Academics
Arkansas Will Give Online Programs More Scrutiny
Colleges and universities in the University of Arkansas System will face more scrutiny when proposing new degree programs that are fully online. Now, chancellors who want to add an online-degree program that already exists within the UA System must explain why another distance-education offering is needed. The justification is just for degree programs — not […]
September 27, 2016
Other News
Digital Textbook Codes Offer Little Savings
The New York Times reports on the growing costs associated with digital textbooks and learning materials, specifically access codes for tests and homework assignments. A new survey of 10 colleges and universities shows the average access code, which sometimes are only found in purchased textbooks, costs $100 alone, increasing by only $26 when offered with […]
September 27, 2016
Other News
Is Ashford the Next ITT Tech?
For the past month, fallout from the federal government’s decision to cut off for-profit giant ITT Tech from access to future federal financial aid has rocked the education world. The decision elicited cheers from consumer advocates and concern from for-profit educators who worry whether their industry can survive increased scrutiny from government regulators. Read More
September 27, 2016
Other News
U.S. Severs Ties With Accreditor of For-Profits
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of for-profit colleges could close, leaving up to 600,000 students scrambling to find other schools, after the Education Department withdrew recognition of the nation’s largest accreditor of for-profit schools. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools said it would appeal the decision to Education Secretary John B. King Jr. In a […]
September 27, 2016
Other News
Enrollment Falls at For-Profit Colleges
Some of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges are suffering steep declines in enrollment amid growing competition, new regulation and government pressure that led to the collapse this month of one of the industry’s biggest players, ITT Technical Institute. The industry has been losing students for the past six years, but the crisis appears to be […]
September 27, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Iowa State President Says He Will Stop Flying School Plane
AMES, Iowa ― The president of Iowa State University said Monday he will no longer pilot a university airplane he has used for trips that have mixed business and personal affairs. President Steven Leath also said he and his wife will make a donation to the university’s scholarship fund in the amount of costs associated […]
September 26, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Former Portland State University President Daniel Bernstine Dies at 69
PORTLAND, Ore. ― Former Portland State University president Daniel Bernstine has died at 69. Bernstine led PSU from 1997 until 2007. After leaving, he headed the Law School Admission Council in Pennsylvania. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the Law School Admission Council issued a news release Sunday saying Bernstine died suddenly at his home. Portland State President […]
September 26, 2016
Students
Parents Channel Grief of Son’s Suicide into Foundation
HARTFORD, Conn. ― On the outside, Jordan Porco was a typical 18-year-old college freshman. He loved the outdoors. He snowboarded. He sought out new music, creating CDs and playlists and sharing them with his friends. So when Marisa Giarnella-Porco and her then-husband Ernie Porco received a call in February 2011 that their son had died […]
September 26, 2016
Students
Algebra Project to Pave Way for Minority Students to Pursue STEM
The Algebra Project, a unique approach to teaching mathematics that was developed by civil rights activist Bob Moses, will make its entry into new school districts across the country
September 26, 2016
Students
In Essence, Racism on Trial in Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Suit
The Arce v Douglas ethnic studies trial, in Tucson’s Federal Court, is expected to commence in early 2017. The suit was filed against the state of Arizona, as a result of the state passing an anti-Ethnic Studies HB 2281 legislation in 2010. Yet for all intents and purposes, it is the discipline itself and, specifically, […]
September 26, 2016
Students
Scholars Unsure Potential Young Latino Voters Engaged
Even though young Latino voters have much at stake in the 2016 presidential election — from immigration reform to free college — it remains unclear as to whether they will turn out to the polls in large numbers this November.
September 26, 2016
Policies
NIH Awards $150 Million for Research on Environment and Child Health
The National Institutes of Health today announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). The ECHO program will investigate how exposure to a range of environmental factors in early development — from conception through early childhood — influences the health of […]
September 26, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
Doctors Asked to Pledge to Fight Opiod Epidemic
Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A. (United States Surgeon General) sent a letter to US physicians about the impact that the opioid epidemic has had on communities and asks for their help: I am asking for your help to solve an urgent health crisis facing America: the opioid epidemic. Everywhere I travel, I see communities devastated […]
September 26, 2016
Nursing
Plans for Nebraska Nursing College Move Forward
In 2008, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents made a new medical center College of Nursing building in Lincoln its legislative priority. Then a deep recession took hold, and NU shelved the plans for a modern nursing training facility. Nearly a decade later, the program statement has been dusted off and the $20 million […]
September 26, 2016
Policies
IHS Chooses Provider for Telemedicine Services
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The Indian Health Service has chosen a South Dakota-based health care system to provide telemedicine services to a network of 19 hospitals and clinics across the Great Plains in an effort to bolster the specialty care available to tribal members, some of whom currently have to travel long distances to receive […]
September 26, 2016
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