State Rep. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Cloud, was selected Wednesday by South Florida State College trustees to succeed retiring school President Thomas Leitzel. Hawkins served from 2008 to 2020 on the Osceola County Commission. But Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended him in July 2020 after Hawkins was charged with impersonating a law enforcement officer. Hawkins went on to get […]
More than 10% of 2023's high school graduating class contemplated whether to go to college this year, according to a new report. To no surprise, COVID is largely to blame.
Climate change is here, now, lapping at the walls of higher education — quite literally. Higher ed is a massive, diverse sector with roughly 20 million students in the U.S. alone and a major physical and carbon footprint in all 50 states. Universities, for decades, have expanded society's knowledge of climate impacts and climate solutions. […]
Columbia University announced Tuesday that it will no longer submit data to U.S. News and World Report for its rankings of undergraduate schools. "We remain concerned with the role that rankings have assumed in the undergraduate application process, both in the outsized influence they may play with prospective students, and in how they distill a […]
The Alabama Legislature approved a bill Tuesday to create a loan program for universities in financial distress after Gov. Kay Ivey returned the original bill with an executive amendment. Senate Bill 278 (SB278), sponsored by State Sen. Jabo Waggoner (R-Vestavia Hills), also called the Distressed Institutions of Higher Education Revolving Loan Program, would create the […]
Has DeSantis met the college students of the year 2023? If he has, he has somehow missed entirely their makeup and conviction. This generation of young people — Gen Z as they are commonly known, but whom I call the Solidarity Generation — requires no prodding by college professors to stand up for social justice […]
Bred out of a popular undergraduate course, Code In Place invites learners from far and wide to learn the fundamentals of programming while gaining a community and confidence.
An adjunct assistant professor of art at New York's Hunter College, which is part of the City University of New York, reacted angrily to two pro-life students tabling on campus by berating them and vandalizing their display. After the video went viral, a New York Post reporter knocked on the professor's Bronx apartment door on May 23 […]
