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Bloomberg Gives Hopkins $300 Million for Public Health

BALTIMORE — Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving $300 million to Johns Hopkins University to deal with public health challenges. The university announced the gift Thursday. Officials say the money will create the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. The initiative will study ways to fight air pollution, gun violence and obesity. Hopkins says […]

September 19, 2016

Experts: Billing of Foreign Students a Gray Area

A group of Alabama State University students from Nigeria are suing over how the university used funds their government paid, but they may face a rocky legal road.

September 18, 2016

College Credit Program Costing Ohio School Districts

COLUMBUS, Ohio ― A statewide program in Ohio that offers free college credit to middle- and high-schoolers may save parents and students money, but taxpayers in school districts will be left with the tab. The College Credit Plus program cost schools in the South-Western City School District in Columbus about $250,000 for the 2015-16 school […]

September 18, 2016

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Union for Faculty Remains at Odds with Pa. State Universities

A union representing faculty at 14 state universities remains at odds with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education over a new contract. The two sides have been unable to reach an agreement on salaries, health insurance and faculty workloads. The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties represents about 5,500 faculty and coaches […]

September 18, 2016

Mike Lonergan Out as George Washington University Coach after Investigation

WASHINGTON ― George Washington University has fired basketball coach Mike Lonergan. University provost Forrest Maltzman announced the move in a statement Saturday, which said Lonergan was no longer coach following an internal investigation. “The university has created and is committed to maintaining a community where all students, faculty and staff feel welcome and comfortable,” Maltzman […]

September 18, 2016

Diverse Docket: Judge Rules Title IX Suit Against University of Kentucky can go Forward

A former University of Kentucky student who claims she was raped in her dorm can pursue a Title IX suit because there was enough evidence that the school repeatedly botched its disciplining of her alleged attacker, a federal judge has ruled.

September 18, 2016

Arizona State Aggressively Opening Doors for First-generation Students

American Dream Academy, an Arizona State University program, works directly with high schools and parents to ensure that first-generation students are admitted to college.

September 18, 2016

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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