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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.
“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.
At least three major institutions offer rebates to people unable to travel due to COVID-19 rules.
The Ivy League universities, including Harvard, Princeton, and Penn, have said they will delay announcing admissions decisions until April 6, about a week later than normal, to allow more time.
“The intent with Mansfield, Bloomsburg and Lock Haven in the northeast as well as the western integration is to maintain the full complement of athletic programs at each campus,” said Ryan McNamara, a spokesman for Mansfield. “We are currently pursuing a path with the NCAA that would allow for that.”
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign announced that it will discontinue its use of remote-proctoring software Proctorio after its summer 2021 term.
“I am tired of feeling like this school just consumes me continually. I can not wait to retire,” wrote one anonymous faculty member.
The donation is the largest donation ever made to a social work program in the United States.
Since the beginning of the winter semester, UM has identified 175 COVID-19 cases in students – 14 of which have been determined to be the B.1.1.7. variant, the release states.
They want the cost of an education at the Ivy League school lowered as financial burdens grow.
The names of everyone applying to be a university or state college president in Florida will no longer be public under legislation making its way through the Legislature.
James Morton, the board’s vice chair and the president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston, encouraged the department to work with community-based youth organizations on the issue.
Wayfinding Academy began the free tuition program last August, as an extension of the institution’s mission to focus on equity and centering students.
"Canceling competitions is never something we want to do, but with so many unknowns about this variant of COVID-19, we must do everything we can to minimize the spread among student-athletes, coaches, staff, and to the student-athletes at other schools."
The school expects to graduate around 550 nursing students this year.
To ensure instructors show up to class regardless of their concerns or pending ADA requests, the school has updated its safety app, GatorSAFE, to include an option that lets students report an instructor for missing class.
"The agency failed to demonstrate that it has competent and knowledgeable individuals," the report read, "qualified by education and experience in their own right and trained by the agency on their responsibilities, as appropriate for their roles, regarding the agency's standards, policies, and procedures."
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