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Gov. Doug Ducey described Senate Bill 1453 as a "timely shift to reskill and upskill Arizona's workforce to meet the needs of the growing economy and provide a pathway to economic prosperity."
During this year’s legislative session, lawmakers eliminated grants that help students at some private colleges pay tuition and got rid of an annual textbook stipend for Bright Futures scholarship recipients.
“With vaccines now widely available, our institutions are eager to adjust as we look forward to the fall semester. Administrators will continue to monitor conditions, making the best decisions possible with information available to them.”
Kansas needs to boost funding for public higher education or else risk jeopardizing federal COVID-19 aid to public schools and universities, officials warned in a memo to legislators.
"Acts of anti-Asian hate and anti-Semitism such as these are unacceptable and violate what we stand for as a community," Tufts University President Tony Monaco said in a written statement.
The act would require university leaders to submit an annual certification to the U.S. Secretary of Education acknowledging that the school's president and at least one member of the school's governing board have reviewed all sexual abuse investigations that were reported to the Title IX coordinator that year involving an employee.
Linfield University President Miles K. Davis rebuffed calls to resign and defended the abrupt firing of an English professor who criticized him.
The first-year student at Rutgers Law School in Newark, who is white, repeated a line from a 1993 legal opinion, including the epithet, when discussing a case.
Colleges and universities are adding new courses about cannabis to the syllabus to prepare students for jobs in the budding industry. And they’re not just offering tokin’ lessons on the history of weed, either.
The two Ivy League universities at the center of a billowing storm over the use in anthropology teaching of the bones of an African American child killed by Philadelphia police in 1985 have apologized for the “serious error”, promising to return the human remains to relatives who never consented to the practice.
The tech industry is filled with people who have the same type of education and advantages. As the sector expands, economists say this reinforces inequality.
One university student was charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter.
Members of the Boston College community sent complaints beginning in the 1997-98 academic year to University President Rev. William P. Leahy, S.J., accusing Rev. Ted Dziak, S.J., a Jesuit at BC from 1990 to 1998, of inappropriate conduct with students.
The vote, a historic one, sets in motion a 60-day public comment process in advance of a final vote in July.
Connecticut College President Katherine Bergeron announced the largest gift in the college’s history: $30 million to boost financial aid, athletics and the campus.
The bill offers in-state tuition to out-of-state students whose grandparents live in Florida and creates a “buy one, get one free” waiver for students who enroll in programs aligned to the state’s economic and workforce needs.
“Students seeking to commence studies in the fall [from] countries affected by a geographic COVID-19 restriction may now qualify for a National Interest Exception. This includes qualified applicants who have been present in Brazil, China, Iran, or South Africa,” the State Department said in a statement.
The bill sought to shield the release of “personal identifying information” about candidates applying to be college or university presidents.
State colleges currently are permitted to work with school districts to develop charter schools that offer secondary education and an option for students to receive associate degrees upon graduation.
It is the third bill related to NIL compensation in college sports to be introduced during this Congress, but the first with support from Democrats and Republicans. Six other lawmakers have signed onto the bill, three from each party.
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