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Walden University Settles in False Advertising and 'Reverse Red-Lining' Lawsuit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A class-action lawsuit against Walden University, a private, for-profit, online institution has concluded with the school settling and agreeing to pay the plaintiffs $28.5 She started the program in September 2017 and finished in October 2020. "It million, pending court approval.

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Burwell Announces She’ll Step Down from American University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year. Burwell, the institution’s 15 th president and its first female leader, has been in the post since 2017. That experience was critical as she led the university through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dr. Kim Schatzel Named President of University of Louisville

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kim Schatzel will become president of the University of Louisville, effective Feb. universities where Black, Latinx, and Pell-eligible students achieve the same graduation rate as the overall student population. Award in 2020; and being named one of the Most Admired CEOs of The Daily Record in 2017 and 2022.

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Universities are a vital public asset. We must save them | Letters

The Guardian - Higher Education

Prof Des Freedman , Michael Bassey , John Sommer and Sally Bates respond to an article about the dire state of Britain’s higher education institutions Gaby Hinsliff ( Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding, 29 March ) says “the story [of decline] starts with the freezing of tuition fees in 2017”.

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UK government consults on protection measures for universities

The PIE News

UK universities are well aware of the threats of malign actors and the current government approach to foreign interference has been “genuinely helpful” to mitigate further risk, the head of organisation representing over 140 universities has said. This is pretty well understood.

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Universities Partner to Investigate and Determine What Makes a “Universal Basic Neighborhood”

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Louisville and Simmons College of Kentucky are partnering on a project to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of a neighborhood and the health of its residents. This work is about diagnosing and treating places so that the health benefits are shared by many.”

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Weekend Reading: What to do about university funding?

HEPI

This chapter was authored by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014 and author of A University Education (2017). Our universities face a funding crisis. So, the first thing universities need to do is to be as transparent as possible about the costs they face.