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Times Change, But Need to Look Beyond Campus Persists

Campus climate cannot be divorced from national events, whether it be police involved killings of Black people, the murders at an Orlando gay nightclub, international politics such as in the Middle East, or the 2016 Election campaign’s violent and incendiary rhetoric.

September 18, 2016

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Closing For-Profits Could Hurt More than Help

NEVER MIND that the higher education plans of tens of thousands of students will be disrupted. Or that 8,000 people will lose their jobs. Or that American taxpayers could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars in forgiven student loans. What is apparently of most importance to the Obama administration is its […]

September 16, 2016

Army Veteran Attends College with His Children

A retired Army master sergeant is beginning a new chapter in his life as a college student with his children by his side. Master Sgt. Arin Gibson Sr. retired from the Army after 25 years of service, according to an ESCC press release. This semester, he is taking classes in social work at Enterprise State […]

September 16, 2016

Center for Student-Veterans Opens at Kansas State University

MANHATTAN, Kan. — A new, private center on the Kansas State University campus aiming to help veterans transition into student life has opened. The Military Affairs Innovation Center opened September 12, The Manhattan Mercury reports. Art DeGroat, director of the university’s Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, says the center will work with other agencies […]

September 16, 2016

Senate Democrats Call for Action on Student Debt

Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) held a conference call Wed., Sept. 14 with The Racquet and other college newspapers in order to spread the word on the #InTheRed Act. The proposed legislation was created in January and would work to address the student debt crisis. The Senate […]

September 16, 2016

Norwich Joins Plan to Help Families Save Tuition Costs

NORTHFIELD, Vt., Sept. 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military college and birthplace of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), has joined Private College 529 Plan, a consortium of 284 colleges that guarantees a locked-in tuition rate for prospective students. College savings and pre-paid tuition plans, called 529 plans, are offered […]

September 16, 2016

Minnesota Finds 2 Schools Defrauded Students

More than 100 Rochester students may be affected by a state of Minnesota ruling that Minnesota School of Business and Globe University fraudulently marketed and recruited students. The Minnesota Office of Higher Education is moving to revoke the schools’ authorization to operate at its six locations throughout the state after a Hennepin County District Judge […]

September 16, 2016

Virginia Launches Online Portal for ITT Tech Students

RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia has created a new online portal to help students impacted by the closure of the for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute. The website includes information about where students can seek loan forgiveness or continue their education at another institution. ITT shuttered all 130 of its U.S. campuses earlier this month, saying […]

September 16, 2016

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Sources: ITT Educational Services Plans Bankruptcy

For-profit U.S. college operator ITT Educational Services Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy after the U.S. government restricted financial aid to new students, according to people familiar with the matter. ITT’s move comes after it said last week it would shut its 137 technical college campuses in 39 states, where roughly 35,000 students are […]

September 16, 2016

What Comes After the For-Profits’ “Lehman Brothers” Moment?

Just as the fall of Lehman Brothers in 2008 heralded a much larger economic crash, the September shuttering of the ITT Technical Institute chain of for-profit colleges signals a broad crisis in higher education. ITT, which taught electronics, computer-based design, criminal justice and other careers to 45,000 Americans last year, had collected $5 billion in […]

September 16, 2016

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Education Department Releases College Scorecard Data

The Obama Administration has released new data and metrics for its college scorecard system, designed to help families understand the value of higher ed spending based upon graduation rates, job attainment and other areas of institutional merit. Like many ranking systems, the federal college scorecard ranks elite colleges and universities high for upper-tier scores in […]

September 16, 2016

Ex-Berkeley Law School Dean Sues Over Sex Harassment Probe

SAN FRANCISCO ― The former dean of the University of California, Berkeley law school filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing school officials of singling him out because of his race for a second investigation of sexual harassment allegations. The University of California treated White faculty members and administrators found to have committed sexual misconduct more leniently […]

September 15, 2016

Faculty & Staff

University Teacher Lockout Ends; Contract Talks Continue

NEW YORK ― About 400 university faculty members who were locked out for 12 days over a bitterly contested contract went back to teaching on Thursday. The lockout action by Long Island University in Brooklyn that suddenly left professors without health insurance or access to email also deprived about 8,000 students of their teachers. The […]

September 15, 2016

2 Black Athletic Conferences Rethinking Holding Tournaments in North Carolina

Two Black athletic conferences have not moved scheduled championship events out of North Carolina in the wake of the state’s passage of a controversial law restricting transgender bathroom use but have not ruled it out.

September 15, 2016

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Mangum Out as Florida A&M University President

Florida A&M University on Thursday announced the departure of Dr. Elmira Mangum, its embattled president of two years, and the immediate appointment of scientist Larry Robinson as interim president.

September 15, 2016

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College Requires Cultural Competency on Military Issues

When Daniel Rendon walked onto campus for the first time and saw all the other students lounging around laughing, listening to music, playing Hacky Sack, he felt completely out of place. After five years in the military, and some time trying to make ends meet with construction jobs that ended with a literal crash when […]

September 15, 2016

Help Available for Displaced ITT Students

In the aftermath of ITT Technical Institute’s abrupt shutdown in early September, more than 40,000 students were summarily bereft of their school and left with potentially unusable credits. The closure of all 136 ITT Tech campuses occurred practically overnight, one week into the new semester. While the school’s closure is certainly disruptive to students’ lives […]

September 15, 2016

California Puts High School Ethnic Studies Officially on the Books

California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will now mandate the teaching of ethnic studies in every public high school across the state.

September 15, 2016

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