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Video conference platforms have inherent flaws that exhaust mind and body, but there are ways to mitigate the effects.
Waiving standardized test requirements has helped boost Ivy League and large state schools while hurting smaller ones.
At Southeast Community College, a loss in academic transfer students was offset by growth in technical programs, said President Paul Illich.
After voicing their outrage in legislative meetings and local television news segments over the players’ act of peaceful protest, Senate Republicans sent a letter to all presidents and chancellors of public Tennessee colleges and universities.
This gift is the largest private donation from an alumnus in the university’s 154-year history, and is believed to be the largest alumni contribution to any Historically Black College or University.
UO will be holding “Week of Wellness” activities in town to encourage students to stay put.
With all the talk about student loan cancellation and free college, some colleges and universities are taking proactive steps to reduce the cost of higher education.
Students living on campus are allowed to go outside “to get fresh air only in the area immediately surrounding their residence hall and to pick-up food from dining halls.”
Trustees of the Vermont State Colleges are poised to endorse a plan in which all three of the system’s four-year schools would eventually merge into one “Vermont State University.”
Students and faculty say the program had value, but described disorganization, shifting priorities, and culture clashes and microagressions from Google employees toward Black students on campus.
Early application trends suggest the higher education wealth divide may get wider still.
The sticking points between the $10,000 and $50,000 proposals revolve around which borrowers would benefit most, and the legality of forgiving student debt through legislation versus through executive action.
An education program is immersing underprivileged students in Ivy League classes, and the students’ success has raised questions about how elite university gatekeepers determine college prospects.
Students are demanding a stronger response from Boston College after two recent cases in which white students were accused of harassing Black and Hispanic students.
“This is an acknowledgement of our obligation, not only as the largest employer and safety-net provider in the region, but also as a mission-driven institution committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion,” said Sarah Mangelsdorf, University of Rochester President.
The university pioneered a fresh financing concept: an income share agreement program, dubbed Back a Boiler, that provides an alternative to traditional student debt.
Rutgers University, Rider University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology told CNN they are investigating racist incidents in which individuals interrupted virtual Black History Month meetings with racist remarks and imagery.
“Trustees can use their influence with university leaders and community members to not only convene around solutions, but to identify national best practices that may be applicable in the Colorado context.”
The HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative seeks to preserve HBCUs as educational institutions as well as physical spaces of historic and cultural significance.
Canada’s slow vaccine campaign – it currently lags well behind global peers on inoculations – and the emergence of new variants, could extend the slump in enrollment and campus revenues into the next year school, experts warn.
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