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COVID-19
How Universities Can Recruit and Retain Diverse Faculty During the Pandemic
As universities across the country consider hiring freezes, how can they continue to recruit and retain diverse faculty amid the coronavirus?
April 22, 2020
News Roundup
Stanford U Will Review Requests to Rename Building With Ties to Eugenics
Stanford University said on Monday it will review requests to rename a building that has ties to eugenics, reported the Stanford Daily. The building in question is Jordan Hall, which was named in 1917 for Dr. David Starr Jordan, Stanford’s founding president and a leader of the eugenics movement. The movement promoted the belief that […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Donald Kennedy, Former Stanford U President, Dies of COVID-19
Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who became the eighth president of Stanford in 1980, died Tuesday of COVID-19, said the university. He was 88. Kennedy was president of Stanford for 12 years, during which time he oversaw its transformation into one of the nation’s top research universities, the institution said. From 2000 to 2008, he was […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
$4 Million Grant For the American Indian College Fund From the Mellon Foundation
The American Indian College Fund will receive $4 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support college students impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The fund, which invests in native students and their college education, said it will distribute the money to its network of tribal colleges so they can provide resources to support new and returning students in […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
California State U at Fullerton Will Start Fall Classes Online
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, California State University at Fullerton says it will begin the fall 2020 semester online and resume in-person instruction when it is safe to do so, reported The Orange County Register. “We are assuming in the fall we will be virtual,” said provost Pamella Oliver at a virtual town hall for […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Franklin U to Permanently Close its Urbana U Branch Campus
Ohio’s Franklin University will permanently close its Urbana University branch campus in May due to stresses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, said the latter in a statement on its website. Urbana will stop enrollments at the end of the 2020 spring semester and academic programming will be moved to Franklin University. Urbana University students will […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Davidson College Offers Deferred Payments For Upcoming Fall Semester
Davidson college said it is offering all students, except seniors, the option to defer paying fall 2020 semester tuitions and other fees until August 2021, saying students may need flexibility due to the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Seniors graduating next spring can defer the fall semester bill until April 1 of next […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Franciscan U to Cover Full Fall Tuition Costs for Incoming, On-Campus Freshmen
Ohio’s Franciscan University said on Monday it will cover the remainder of tuition costs, after scholarships and grants have been applied, for the fall 2020 semester for all incoming full-time undergraduate students enrolled in its on-campus programs, considering the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. This plan is part of the private Catholic university’s  COVID-19 […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
DACA College Students Not Eligible For Coronavirus Aid Funds
U.S. Education Department guidelines released Tuesday disallow undocumented and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) college students from receiving emergency coronavirus federal aid, reported Newsweek. The federal coronavirus stimulus package under the CARES Act allocates some $6 billion in cash grants for college and university students whose educations have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. […]
April 22, 2020
Leadership & Policy
Dr. Virginia Roach Trailblazes Ways for Women in Academia
Dr. Virginia Roach, dean of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education, started her career with a job as a dishwasher in an on-campus daycare center. There, as an aspiring chemical engineer, she was asked to tutor a child with learning difficulties and came to the realization that “this is for me.”
April 22, 2020
Students
Policy Brief Suggests Reforms to Address Student Debt Crisis During the Pandemic
In the first draft of the $2 trillion United States federal government stimulus package, a cancellation of $10,000 for any loan borrower’s student debt was proposed. However, Congress ultimately voted to give each student borrower a six-month interest-free break on making payments on federal loans. Meaning, individuals do not have to make a student loan payment until October 2020 and there will be not an accrual of interest and penalties during this time.
April 22, 2020
Campus Climate
Campus Climate Issues Don’t Disappear When Campuses Close, Scholars Say
Diverse hosted an online discussion titled “Calling Out Xenophobia, Racism and Intolerance During the COVID-19 Crisis,” moderated by Editor-at-Large Dr. Jamal Watson. As campus resources and classes moved online, so did harmful biases, panelists noted, calling for fresh approaches from colleges and universities.
April 21, 2020
Latest News
Seeking Justice: Innocence Project Works to Exonerate the Wrongly Convicted
Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project aims to “free the staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment,” according to their website.
April 21, 2020
COVID-19
Amid Pandemic, For-Profit Colleges Look to Increase Enrollments
As the coronavirus has shut college campuses and forced them to provide online instruction, several of the country’s largest for-profit colleges are looking to boost enrollments and targeting unemployed workers who may be thinking of going back to school, reported the Associated Press. Many of these for-profits have increased advertising and are offering discounts for […]
April 21, 2020
Latinx
Ensure Emergency Grants to Students Aren’t Taxed: Higher Ed Groups
A host of higher education groups, including the American Council on Education, have written to congressional leaders asking them to ensure that the emergency student financial aid grants authorized by the coronavirus stimulus package, or the CARES Act, are not subject to taxation. Under the act, $6.28 billion was awarded to college and universities “to […]
April 21, 2020
Community Colleges
Some Michigan Community Colleges See Big Declines in Summer Enrollments
Michigan’s Washtenaw Community College and Grand Rapids Community College are seeing steep declines in summer enrollments due to the coronavirus pandemic, reported the Detroit Free Press. At the Washtenaw college, registration was down 11% on March 12 for summer classes, compared to the same time in 2019. After the school said it would go online, […]
April 21, 2020
COVID-19
Democratic Senators Say For-Profit Colleges Shouldn’t Get Further Stimulus Aid
Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called on Senate leaders to ensure that for profit-colleges do not receive any more coronavirus stimulus aid in further rounds of relief legislation, reported Politico. Last month, Congress allotted more than $1 billion to for-profit colleges as part of a $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package, reported […]
April 21, 2020
COVID-19
Coronavirus Stimulus Funds Disbursed to Howard and Gallaudet Universities
The Department of Education said Tuesday it has disbursed coronavirus stimulus funds under the CARES Act to two Washington D.C. universities, Howard University and Gallaudet University. Under the Act, $13 million has been made available to Howard University and $7 million to Gallaudet University, as stipulated by the Act passed last month. In a statement […]
April 21, 2020
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