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Admissions Movement Leaving ACT/SAT Behind

Hundreds of four-year, liberal arts schools have decreased reliance upon ACT/SAT test scores in admissions. These institutions are self-identifying in three categories: test-optional, test-flexible and test-blind.

October 11, 2016

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South African Campus Hit by Second Day of Student Unrest

JOHANNESBURG ― South African riot police fought stone-throwing students for a second consecutive day at a university campus on Tuesday amid national calls by demonstrators for free higher education. Clashes broke out when students hurled rocks at a central building at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and police fired rubber bullets to disperse […]

October 11, 2016

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Haskell Indian Nations University Employee Sues Over School’s Treatment of Rape Victim

LAWRENCE, Kan. ― A Haskell Indian Nations University employee alleges in a lawsuit that she was demoted from her job as a student counselor after trying to help a student who said she was raped. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Angelina Adams sued Monday in Douglas County District Court. Adams says Haskell leaders improperly expelled […]

October 11, 2016

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Diverse Conversations: 2 Things to Know Before Paying for Private College

Here are two things everyone should know before forking over money for that elite private college education.

October 11, 2016

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Colleges, Universities Making Retention, Completion Priority

Colleges and universities are working to boost retention and completion rates after a steady decline in recent years.

October 10, 2016

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Howard University Starting Ph.D. Program Focusing on Minority Serving Institutions

Howard University is launching a new Ph.D. program in Higher Education with a focus on Minority Serving Institutions—the first doctoral program of this kind in the nation.

October 10, 2016

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Rodriguez: Nightmare Looms for an Original DREAMER

This is the story of Lizbeth Mateo, a young, bright Indigenous woman from Oaxaca, Mexico, and a recent graduate from the Santa Clara University School of Law, who today finds herself under threat of imminent deportation.

October 10, 2016

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UVa Lecturer Takes Leave of Absence Following Anti-Black Lives Matter Post

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― A lecturer at the University of Virginia “has agreed to take leave” after comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan on social media. Media outlets report the comment was posted last week by Douglas Muir, an adjunct lecturer at both the engineering and business schools. On Tuesday, Charlottesville […]

October 10, 2016

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Protests Hamper South African University’s Effort to Reopen

JOHANNESBURG ― Tear gas and water cannon were fired as hundreds of students protested at a top South African university Monday amid a bitter national dispute with university managers and the government over demonstrators’ demands for free education. The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, or Wits, had said it was re-opening Monday after being […]

October 10, 2016

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HACU Conference Hones in on Latino Graduation, Retention

At the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities conference, University of Northern Colorado educators shared some successful strategy in assisting one of the fastest growing college-going demographics.

October 9, 2016

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College Campus Sexual Assault Reports Stay Even on Utah Campuses

SALT LAKE CITY ― Sexual assaults reported at the campuses of Utah’s largest colleges in 2015 are about the same as the year before at 58 and still unlikely to accurately represent how many assaults actually occur. Underreporting and a lack of off-campus assault data are factors that some say misrepresent the actual number of […]

October 9, 2016

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Inmates, Parolees can take Advantage of Pilot Program

TULSA, Okla. ― Hundreds of Arkansas inmates and parolees are participating in a three-year federal pilot program that lets state and federal prisoners use financial aid to pay for college. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the program reverses a 1994 congressional ban on students in federal and state prisons from being eligible for Pell grants. Pell […]

October 9, 2016