Higher education powerhouses abroad are slowly increasing their reputation as over two-thirds of American universities slipped, according to this year's international university ranking by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global education strategy group.
Wealthy Republican- and Libertarian-backed megadonors are funding think tanks, influencing political thought and are largely behind recent attacks against university governance structures, declares a whitepaper by the American Association of University Professors.
Students being denied conferment—some of whom have faced arrests, expulsions, suspensions and other disciplinary action—say they're in limbo and are being made into examples. In the worst-case scenario, they'll be saddled with debt and will have no degree to show for it.
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.
The majority also think it’s unfair for colleges to consider an applicant’s athletic ability, family alumni ties, ability to pay full tuition or parents’ educational levels in determining who should get acceptance letters, the survey found.
It would benefit institutions to understand how educational therapy would benefit them and the students they serve and consider how to integrate it into their existing infrastructures.
The challenge lies not in the medium but in how it's structured. Institutions can do more to foster the essential communal aspects of traditional learning to combat the loneliness of remote learning.
As the diversity of the U.S. population increased, more Hispanic and Latino, Black and African American students have enrolled in undergraduate programs over the last 20 years, according to data outlined in the report. However, completion rates have not risen accordingly—the number of Hispanic or Latino students earning bachelor’s degrees rose about 10 percent from […]
The Council on Islamic-American Relations filed a lawsuit in federal court Thursday challenging the legality of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order on campus free speech. The order directs the state’s public universities to update their free speech policies to combat activities the governor describes as antisemitic, and names Students for Justice in Palestine as […]
