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The protests were organized by the University Survivors Movement, an international coalition of student activists working to address the problem of sexual assault on college campuses.
Many universities instituted new testing protocols, hoping to avoid the problems of the fall. But coronavirus variants and uncooperative students have already driven outbreaks.
The professors were told their positions were eliminated “in order to prevent a financial exigency in the short term and to enable the university to reach its long-term goals,” according to the complaint filed in Sussex County.
According to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, total R&D expenditures have risen in both current and constant dollars for four consecutive years.
“Our students are older, and many of them are working. Some of them are essential workers but not yet vaccinated. There’s a lot of exposure that happens outside of my classroom.”
“Instead of asking the question why we need to divest from programs, we should be asking why we need to continue to invest in those programs if they are not central to our mission?”
In Georgia, a state Republican lawmaker asked the University system of Georgia to catalog which of its professors were teaching courses about white privilege.
This is the latest effort the system has employed to align its workforce with its enrollment that in the fall had declined for the 10th consecutive year to 93,708 students.
A lawsuit against the University of Tennessee questions when schools can discipline students because of their online speech.
A Vermont college president moved into a dormitory among the students to share their experience coping with the COVID-19 quarantine for a few days.
“We do not want any of our students to have an experience that leaves them feeling unsupported or fearful. … And, to be honest with the committee, we have heard from other students, faculty and staff in our college that we’ve failed them as well.”
The U.S. Department of Justice is dropping its controversial lawsuit brought by the Trump administration against Yale University, in which it accused the school of illegally discriminating against white and Asian American applicants in its undergraduate admissions process.
Michigan Reconnect is a $30 million program that will provide scholarships to millions of eligible Michigan adults without college degrees, enabling them to earn a tuition-free associate degree or skills certificate at their in-district community college.
Researchers forecast that the development of 5G networks will remove most of the technological barriers and open access to online education for new users.
Liberty University President, Jerry Prevo organized the snowball scuffle through a Twitter post, encouraging students to join him at the center of the campus after a storm left 4 inches (10 centimeters) of fresh powder.
A Collin College education professor for nearly 20 years says she is being let go after forming a local chapter of a faculty advocacy group and criticizing the college’s COVID-19 reopening plans.
Gov. JB Pritzker, D-Illinois, has already announced $711 million in cuts. He’s expected to propose a budget for the coming fiscal year this February.
For several weeks — rain, shine, or even snow — a rebellion has been underway in one of the most hallowed establishments of Turkish academia: the campus of Bogazici University in Istanbul.
At least three major institutions offer rebates to people unable to travel due to COVID-19 rules.
“There was a time when [those tests] offered opportunity to a lot of students who didn’t have them, but with the growth and breadth of advanced placement, that argument no longer holds,” said College Board CEO, David Coleman.
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