Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Image: The University of Southern California is one of the top-ranked campuses for Greek life in the country: almost 30 percent of undergraduates—about 7,300 students— were members of a Greek organization in 2020. But as students begin arriving for the fall semester, they’ll find that many of USC’s Greek organizations are no longer subject to university governance.
The Berkeley Blog
AUGUST 19, 2022
The IRA will help build a high-road green economy, creating good jobs and clear pathways into them.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Image: The aftershocks of this summer’s decision by the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles, to forgo the Pacific-12 Conference for the Big Ten Conference continue to reverberate across the college sports landscape—with even more disruptive changes in college football governance reportedly under consideration.
ACRLog
AUGUST 19, 2022
Last week, I celebrated my one-year anniversary as a department head. The day consisted of teaching students, celebratory cookies, and a few reflective moments on the last 365 days. I can’t believe it has been a year! The last year has gone by quickly. We’ve adapted to changing pandemic seasons, dealt with staffing changes and hiring freezes, and continued to support student success.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Category: Conditionally Accepted Colleges should make good on the promises they have made about diversity, equity and inclusion and actually do the work of making real change, Sydney Freeman Jr. writes. Ad keywords: diversity Section: Diversity Editorial Tags: Career Advice Show on Jobs site: Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
A group of scholarship providers for Native American students on Wednesday released a report detailing their first national study on college affordability for Indigenous students. Researchers surveyed 1,607 current and 1,182 former scholarship recipients in 2020 and conducted interviews and sharing circles with 96 current and former students in 2021 to gain a better understanding of their financial barriers.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Stat of the Week: The Girl reports that among the first-year students in the Honors Humanities program at UMD this fall, 68 are women and two are men. It struck me as the sort of number that belongs in Harper’s Index. I knew that gender segregation by major remains very real, even after all these years.
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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
The West Liberty University Board of Governors voted Wednesday not to renew President W. Franklin Evans’s contract for a third year, The Intelligencer reported. Evans, West Liberty’s first Black president, assumed the job in 2021. But his tenure has been marred by accusations that he plagiarized several speeches , for which he later apologized.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
A group of professors on Thursday sued the state of Florida over its Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees Act, widely called the Stop WOKE Act. The law prohibits teaching things (including in higher education) that may make students feel uncomfortable. Also on Thursday, a federal judge blocked a portion of the law that affects private businesses.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Today on the Academic Minute , part of University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Week: Dr. Maria Abreu, professor of medicine, explores the best diet for those suffering from Crohn’s disease. Learn more about the Academic Minute here. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Over 14,000 borrowers will soon receive checks from the Federal Trade Commission restoring a total of $822,000 lost to a student loan debt relief scam called Student Advocates. Last year, Student Advocates and the financing company Equitable Acceptance Corporation, which assisted them, settled a complaint filed against them by the FTC. The settlement stated that the two companies had collected illegal up-front fees and falsely promised borrowers that they could lower or eliminate their student l
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Image: A conservative commentator is pressuring the University of California, Santa Cruz, to respond to his complaints about a Ph.D. candidate and trans activist there. And he’s urging his more than one million followers to do the same, prompting concerns about targeted harassment of the graduate student, Eli Erlick. Specifically, commentator Matt Walsh says he’s concerned that Erlick is a “confessed drug dealer” targeting children.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Column: Intellectual Affairs Several years ago, the contributor’s note accompanying an article by Jerry Z. Muller identified him as a professor of history at the Catholic University of America and mentioned that he was at work on a biography of Jacob Taubes. Since then he has moved on to emeritus status and published Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes ( Princeton University Press ).
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Image: President Biden has yet to deliver what experts say could be a strong political catalyst among Democrats and young voters: widespread student debt relief. Biden said he would deliver a final decision on whether to cancel at least some of the $1.7 trillion currently owed to the federal government in student loan debt by the end of August but has yet to indicate a plan.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 19, 2022
Nearly half of incoming college sophomores don’t want to live with or date someone who voted differently from them in the 2020 election, a new NBC News/Generation Lab poll found. The Class of 2025 also is less optimistic about the country and world than they were a year ago, but they have a rosy outlook about their own futures, according to NBC News , which along with Generation Lab surveyed the same class of students a year ago as they were about to start college.
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