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Trump’s Budget Could Eliminate Public-Service Loan Forgiveness. Here’s What to Know. – The Ticker

Budget documents obtained by The Washington Post paint a bleak picture for many federal education programs: The newspaper reported on Wednesday that President Trump’s administration plans to cut them by a total of $10.6 billion. The proposed education budget would cut spending on programs in secondary education in order to funnel some of that money into school-choice programs, which have long… → Read More

Citing Security Fears, IRS Suspends Key Tool in Financial-Aid Process – The Ticker

The U.S. Department of Education and the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday announced that the IRS had suspended the agency’s data-retrieval tool, a key online resource that, among other things, makes it easier for students and families to fill out the financial-aid form known as the Fafsa. This week, reports circulated online that the data-retrieval tool had suddenly become unavailable,… → Read More

U.S. Gives Colleges More Time for Appeals Under Gainful-Employment Rule – The Ticker

The U.S. Department of Education on Monday announced that it was giving colleges more time to submit appeals regarding data that is connected to the enforcement of the Obama administration’s hotly contested gainful-employment rule. Lynn Mahaffie, the acting assistant secretary for postsecondary education, said that the action was being taken “to allow the department to further review the GE… → Read More

Trump’s Surprise Victory Sends Shock Through Higher Ed

Donald Trump’s abrasive presidential campaign angered many people in academe. His upset win raises questions about higher education’s place amid a tide of anti-intellectualism. → Read More

Simon Newman Resigns as President of Mount St. Mary’s

The controversial leader's resignation caps a weeks-long furor that drew national attention to the Roman Catholic university in rural Maryland. → Read More

Supreme Court Will Hear Religious Colleges’ Objections to Contraceptive Rule – The Ticker

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear the arguments of religious colleges and other faith-based nonprofit organizations against the contraceptive mandate of President Obama’s signature health-care law, the Associated Press reported. The Obama administration’s requirement that employers provide access to contraceptives has been deeply controversial among faith-based organizations. They… → Read More

Head of California’s Community-College System Says He’ll Retire – The Ticker

Brice W. Harris will retire in April as chancellor of California’s community-college system, Mr. Harris said on Tuesday in an announcement on Twitter: > With mixed emotion I will retire in April. So lucky to have served this great system with outstanding faculty and staff in CA #comm_colleges — Dr. Brice W. Harris (@DrBriceWHarris) October 13, 2015 Mr. Harris has overseen the mammoth 113-campus… → Read More

Higher-Ed Groups Criticize Obama’s Overtime-Pay Proposal – The Ticker

Universiity of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign The School of the Art Institute of Chicago California State Polytechnic University, P... Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Iowa State University Loyola Marymount University Indiana Institute on Disability and Commun... The University of Illinois College of Medi... School of Engineering, Rutgers The State U... Kishwaukee College USC Gould School of Law… → Read More

New President at Iowa Won’t Seek Tenured Post That Contract Allows – The Ticker

Universiity of Ilinois at Urbana-Champaign The School of the Art Institute of Chicago California State Polytechnic University, P... Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Iowa State University Loyola Marymount University Indiana Institute on Disability and Commun... The University of Illinois College of Medi... School of Engineering, Rutgers The State U... Kishwaukee College USC Gould School of Law… → Read More

U. of Texas to Move Jefferson Davis Statue to Campus History Center – The Ticker

The University of Texas at Austin will move a statue of the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, from its prominent position on the campus to a history center there, but will leave statues of other Confederate leaders in place, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The university is one of many that have recently been grappling with the question of what to do about Confederate symbols on… → Read More

Student Says He Lost Facebook Internship After Shedding Light on Privacy Flaws – The Ticker

Bryan College of Health Sciences Georgian Court University The University of California, Irvine University of Colorado Boulder Miami Dade College University of South Carolina School of Law University of South Carolina School of Law University of Kentucky College of Social W... University of Kentucky College of Social W... UCLA (University of California, Los Angele... Cuyahoga Community College… → Read More

U. of Illinois Trustees Reject Resignation Deal for Chancellor Phyllis Wise – The Ticker

The executive committee of the University of Illinois’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously rejected a resignation deal for Phyllis M. Wise, who quit last week as chancellor of the Urbana-Champaign campus, the Chicago Tribune reported. Ms. Wise’s sudden resignation capped a tumultuous year of controversies at the state’s flagship campus, including a long-lasting uproar over the decision… → Read More

Judge Rejects Florida State’s Bid to Dismiss Suit by Ex-Quarterback’s Accuser – The Ticker

Bryan College of Health Sciences California State Polytechnic University, P... California State Polytechnic University, P... Georgian Court University The University of California, Irvine SUNY Delhi University of Colorado Boulder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil... The University of the South Miami Dade College University of South Carolina School of Law University of South Carolina… → Read More

Wheaton College (Ill.) Ends Student Health Insurance Over Contraceptive Rule – The Ticker

Montana State University University of Louisiana at Lafayette William James College University of California, Irvine Georgetown University School of Continuing... Stanford University, Religious Studies Dep... Flashnotes.com Franciscan University of Steubenville Franciscan University of Steubenville Halifax Community College Anglia Ruskin University California State University, Sacramento… → Read More

Investigation Finds High Dropout Rates at Unaccredited Law Schools – The Ticker

Montana State University University of Louisiana at Lafayette New York University Onondaga Community College William James College Stanford University, Religious Studies Dep... California State University, East Bay University of California, Irvine University of South Carolina Georgetown University School of Continuing... D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeas... Stanford University,… → Read More

UC-San Diego Wins Suit Against USC Over Control of Alzheimer’s Project – The Ticker

Montana State University University of Louisiana at Lafayette New York University Onondaga Community College William James College Stanford University, Religious Studies Dep... California State University, East Bay University of California, Irvine University of South Carolina Georgetown University School of Continuing... D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeas... Stanford University,… → Read More

U. of Cincinnati Overhauls Police Patrols After Fatal Shooting by Officer – The Ticker

The University of Cincinnati’s president on Thursday announced changes in how the institution’s police force operates, following an officer’s fatal shooting of a black man during a traffic stop on Sunday, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The officer, Ray Tensing, shot and killed Samuel Dubose, 43, during a traffic stop over a missing front license plate that took place about half a mile from… → Read More

Study Challenges Idea That Many Campus Rapists Are Serial Offenders – The Ticker

A study published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, a journal of the American Medical Association, has challenged the perception that most college men who commit rape are serial offenders. A previous study, published in 2002, found that about 6 percent of men surveyed at the University of Massachusetts at Boston had acknowledged committing acts that met criteria for rape or attempted rape. That… → Read More

Small For-Profit College Closes in California – The Ticker

California State University, Sacramento American International College University of Arkansas System Montgomery County Community College Purdue University Coleman University Kentucky Community & Technical College Sys... The University of Texas Health Science Cen... Department of Mexican American & Latina/o ... California State University Channel Island... West Virginia State University Research… → Read More

NCAA Proposal Would Refine Definition of Academic Misconduct – The Ticker

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Southeast Missouri State University Halifax Community College Botswana International University of Scien... Mount Saint Mary College University of Kansas Georg Eckert Institute for International T... Botswana International University of Scien... American Accounting Association Palo Alto University Texas Tech University Health Sciences Cent... Rutgers… → Read More