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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

“It is unacceptable that anyone would intentionally cause pain in our community through this kind of hateful act,” Fanta Aw, the university’s vice president for undergraduate enrollment, campus life and inclusive excellence, wrote in the email sent out campuswide on Feb.

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

Research shows that students who must incur debt to attend college have lower GPAs, more health issues both before and after graduation, are less likely to buy a house, will get married and have children later in life, are less likely to start a business, and are less entrepreneurial. Why is college so expensive?

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Inside Higher Ed

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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The Return of Bad Arguments for the Humanities

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Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”). First of all, around the world, there are some quite good universities which do not offer programs in the humanities.