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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

Starting in 2018, for instance, several faculty members said, the faculty helped the college avoid budget-related program cuts via an academic and administrative program review. This work led to the publication of a long-term planning document called One Oberlin , which the general faculty and the board voted to approve in 2019.

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Education Department to use secret shoppers to catch colleges lying

Inside Higher Ed

“I’m very happy to see that they are using what will prove to be a very potent tool for combating the most prevalent form of fraud, which is verbal misrepresentations in bilateral communication between recruiters and targeted victims that are very hard to document or prove after the fact,” he said.