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Adapting to criticism and college opt-outs, U.S. News teases its latest rankings

University Business

Following harsh criticism from the nation’s top medical schools and the Department of Education, U.S. News and World Report is set to release its law and medical school: research rankings next week with an updated methodology and a reliance on public information from schools that now refuse to participate.

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UC Virtual Conference Centers Free Speech, Civil Rights Amid Ongoing Tensions on College Campuses

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Across the country, we are confronted with the challenges of extreme polarization, perhaps no more intensely than on our college campuses,” said UC President Dr. Hamas’s attack on Israel last October is one of the latest assaults in a bloody decades-long geopolitical dispute. Bernard Professor at George Washington University’s Law School.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court dismantled decades of legal precedent in June, ruling against race-conscious college admissions and bringing an end to affirmative action practices in higher education. million borrowers have $0 payments, and 75% of SAVE borrowers are Pell Grant recipients, meaning they are or were low-income college students.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Department of Education (ED).

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

Insight Into Diversity

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college. Multicultural Mentorship — Augustana College.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

University leaders responded with an email to the campus denouncing the incident and announcing that the Office of the Dean of Students would investigate and determine whether the incident constituted a violation of the university code of conduct. Burwell the very next day voicing concerns about the investigation.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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The report includes the specific case of the hostile takeover of New College, describing it as a blueprint for potential future encroachments on public colleges and universities across the United States. This incident is viewed not just as an isolated event but as a potential template for future actions in other institutions.