Also in this week's TGIF Time-saver news roundup, female leaders are making progress in higher business offices and a newcomer enters the edtech arena.
Title IX, student loan forgiveness and federal oversight over institutions are in the crosshairs of two Republican-led initiatives with the power to overhaul public higher education.
Eight current and former staffers at the U.S. Education Department expressed dismay over a recent Supreme Court decision they fear will blunt major regulations affecting K-12 schools and colleges.
Schools will be allowed to pay future players with something more than scholarships. They can give them cash but that’s about all we know. The rest is uncharted territory and there are many more questions than answers.
His campaign later walked back the former president’s comments, saying that there would be an “aggressive vetting process” that would “exclude all communists, radical Islamists, Hamas supporters, America haters and public charges” and that the policy would apply only to the “most skilled graduates who can make significant contributions to America.”
While University of Utah President Taylor Randall and other leaders stressed the value of a college degree, they also emphasized the institution needs to fit the student. Individualization, Randall said, is the key to success.
Date & Time: Thursday, July 11th at 2 pm ET <br><br> In this 20-minute UB Ed Talk, a former professor of educational psychology at the University of Southern California will offer practical science-backed strategies for using digital channels to engage with, enroll, and retain more students for dual enrollment, workforce upskilling, and degree programs.
Maurie McInnis, current president at Stony Brook University in New York, takes the reins at a tumultuous time following continued protests over the Israel-Hamas war.
Following seven years of negotiation, design and production that survived the pandemic, Grinnell College's 18-acre, 9,000-solar panel array is live, replacing one-third of the campus' total energy needs. Another two-megawatt project is speedily underway.
