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Antisemitism Probe of Penn Kicks Off With Document Request

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Pennsylvania has two weeks to turn over documents, emails and other communications to a House committee regarding how it has responded to antisemitic incidents since January 2021, the university’s plan to combat antisemitism and its efforts to recruit and retain Jewish students.

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News Report Documents Conservatives’ Plan to Undermine DEI in Higher Ed

Inside Higher Ed

Conservative academics and politicians started organizing a campaign in 2022 to undermine efforts to increase racial diversity in American universities and turn public opinion against these initiatives by convincing policymakers that the efforts are corrupting higher education, according to a New York Times investigation.

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Rice University should name buildings after Black figures, task force suggests

Higher Ed Dive

The recommendation is one of a dozen the group recently made in a 260-page report documenting the Texas college’s ties to slavery and racial injustice.

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Visual Documentation of the College Meltdown Needed

Higher Education Inquirer

The Higher Education Inquirer is looking for images to document the College Meltdown which began in 2010. Images of these closed schools can be used to document an important part of US higher education history. In 2018, Virginia College campuses closed, and Kaplan Higher Education sold its remaining properties to Purdue University.

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Campus workers respond to WVU budget deficit in anonymous document - Jules Ogden, the DA Online

Economics and Change in Higher Education

A WordPress document was published by a group of anonymous West Virginia University employees Wednesday in response to the University’s $45 million budget deficit and Reduction-in-Force solution.

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University of Chicago to pay $13.5M to settle allegations of financial aid price-fixing

Higher Ed Dive

The institution, one of 17 named in a class-action lawsuit, will also provide documents that are expected to help the case against the other colleges.

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Rice University sets aside $33 million to settle price-fixing lawsuit

University Business

Rice University has set aside $33.75 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed against 17 prestigious private universities across the country accused of illegally running a scheme that limited the amount of financial aid given to students, according to the school’s financial statements for last year.