Putting our mics on mute and listening isn't just a Zoom strategy. It's a path forward to being the resilient and responsive institution that students, families, faculty, staff, and external stakeholders are all calling for.
"California's universities are playing national leadership roles in weakening the SAT/ACT in college admissions," said Ray Rosner, executive director of the Princeton Review Foundation, a nonprofit advocate for fair testing.
The Regents passed a controversial measure that would temporarily grant universities the option to implement policies bypassing regular policies on faculty and employee suspensions, terminations, and dismissals to address financial shortfalls.
Universities public and private are offering substantial new scholarship programs to diversify their campuses in the wake of nationwide anti-racist protests and the financial impacts of coronavirus.
Colleges and universities dropping SAT and ACT scores in admissions may be the most positive development for equity in education during coronavirus, one higher ed advocate says.
Universities that have refunded less than 100 percent due to COVID-19 closures face the prospect of class actions, say UB guest columnists Hyongsoon Kim, Molly Whitman, Robert Pees and Anthony Pierce of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. Some have been filed; more are a certainty. Here's why.
The University of Missouri, the University of Arizona and many other schools face layoffs, furloughs and instructional cuts as leaders contend with the coronavirus economic crisis.
