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03/05/2018
Duke University blocks students from picking their roommates freshman year Duke University takes away from first-year students the ability to pick their roommates. This move goes against recent trends -- and raises questions about diversity, tolerance and the college experience.
02/19/2018
Proposed Education Department reorganization would merge higher ed-related offices, positions Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, and combine postsecondary and career and technical education into a single office.
02/18/2018
Proactive advising leads to retention and graduation gains for colleges Retention and graduation rates increase for community colleges that beef up or get creative with their student advising services.
11/17/2017
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/11/17/allegations-dartmouth-harassment-case
Trump Administration Taps New Leader for Black-College Initiative – The Ticker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education September 18, 2017 by Adam Harris Trump Administration Taps New Leader for Black-College Initiative Johnathan Holifield, a consultant and former NFL player, has been appointed executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges, the White House announced at the opening ce...
08/16/2017
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/students-at-most-colleges-dont-pick-useless-majors/
Students At Most Colleges Don’t Pick ‘Useless’ Majors Growing up in a low-income household in Clifton, New Jersey, Vini Mehta saw one path to a better future: a college degree. Knowing that she would have to pay tu…
08/03/2017
https://www.yahoo.com/news/princeton-university-encouraging-students-choose-062914264.html
Princeton University Encouraging Students To Choose Gender Identity An increasing number of institutions, including schools, colleges and universities are encouraging students to embrace and be proud of the gender they identify with.
07/12/2017
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/betsy-devos-lawsuit-for-profit-colleges
Eighteen states sue Betsy DeVos for suspending rules on for-profit colleges Democratic attorneys general target Donald Trump’s education secretary over her plan to rewrite Obama-era measures to protect students
07/05/2017
DeVos Is Discarding College Policies That New Evidence Shows Are Effective A close analysis of more than 500 failing programs suggests current rules have been successful at reining in predatory for-profit colleges.
06/29/2017
Enrollment rates continue to decline. "This year is the worst so far in a long slump in the number of high school grads, with 81,000 fewer nationwide."
http://hechingerreport.org/universities-colleges-struggle-stem-big-drops-enrollment/
Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment - The Hechinger Report DELAWARE, Ohio — Behind the deceptive quiet of a small college campus in the summer, things are buzzing at Ohio Wesleyan University. Faculty at the 175-year-old liberal-arts school, which has about 1,700 undergraduates, are preparing new majors in high-demand fields including data analytics and comp...
06/23/2017
http://deansreport.cal.msu.edu/2017/yomaira-figueroa/
Yomaira Figueroa: Inspiring First-Generation Students Through Literature Assistant Professor of Global African Diaspora Studies, Figueroa is inspiring new generations of students and exposing them to new worlds of literature.
06/21/2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/whos-afraid-of-free-speech/530094/
Who's Afraid of Free Speech? What critics of campus protest get wrong about the state of public discourse.