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