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Students

UConn: Sexual Violence Survey Shows Students Feel Safe

STORRS, Conn. — A survey on sexual violence shows students feel safe on University of Connecticut campuses, school officials said Monday. The university released the results of the anonymous survey of 6,000 random students, which was administered in November 2015 by the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium. About 1,500 students from Storrs and regional campuses […]

April 11, 2016

Students

Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion

Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.

April 5, 2016

Students

Engaging Latino Students for Transfer and Completion

Both community colleges and bachelor’s degree-granting institutions across the country are responding to a chorus of calls for dramatic improvements in student success and college completion.

April 5, 2016

Students

Initiative Aims to Eliminate Gaps Between Rich and Poor Students

Leaders from a group of public urban universities recently launched a new collaborative initiative to improve completion rates and eliminate the gaps between rich and poor students.

April 3, 2016

Students

Harvard Taking More Steps to Acknowledge its Ties to Slavery

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Harvard’s president says the Ivy league university will do more to acknowledge its ties to slavery. University President Drew Faust announced Wednesday in an op-ed in the student newspaper that the nearly 400-year-old institution will install a plaque next month at the former home for college presidents to recognize the slaves who […]

March 31, 2016

Sports

Emmert: North Carolina Law Could Make NCAA Turn Away

HOUSTON ― For the second straight year, NCAA President Mark Emmert faced questions at his Final Four news conference about a state’s religious exemption law that critics say allows discrimination against gays, lesbians and others. And for the second straight year, Emmert said the association is prepared to refrain from doing business in that state […]

March 31, 2016

Students

More Students Seeing the World Without Getting Credits

A survey found that roughly half of the 227 institutions responding reported an increase in the number of students who participated in non-credit education abroad for the 2012-13 academic year over the previous year.

March 30, 2016

Students

Fraternity Suspended at University of South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. ― The University of South Carolina says the Sigma Chi fraternity has been suspended temporarily from the Columbia campus. It’s the fifth chapter closed or suspended since fall 2014. The reason for the suspension has not been released. USC spokesman Wes Hickman told local media that the school has been told by the […]

March 28, 2016

Students

Report: Black Student Graduation Rates Improving at Slower Rate Than Whites

A recent report released by the Education Trust found that Black student graduation rates improved by 4.4 percent compared to 5.6 percent for White students.

March 22, 2016

Students

Missouri Interim President: Faculty on Frontline of Quest for Diversity

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education and the American Council on Education held joint sessions at their co-located annual meetings on Tuesday with a heavy diversity emphasis.

March 16, 2016

News Roundup

Notre Dame to Take ESPN Lawsuit to State Supreme Court

INDIANAPOLIS ― A University of Notre Dame spokesman says the university plans to take a lawsuit from ESPN to the Indiana Supreme Court after an appeals court ruled the school’s police department is a public entity that is subject to state open-records laws. The three-judge panel overturned a lower court decision, ruling Tuesday that the […]

March 15, 2016

Students

Georgia Governor Questions Campus Guns Bill to NRA Backlash

ATLANTA ― Georgia’s governor stopped short of a veto threat against a bill lifting a weapons ban on the state’s public college campuses on Tuesday. But the Republican’s call for fixes to the bill awaiting his signature prompted pushback from the National Rifle Association and Georgia lawmakers still supportive of the original proposal. The state […]

March 15, 2016