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Students

San Jose State’s MOOC Missteps Easy to See

As most people in ed-tech circles have heard by now, a much-touted MOOC experiment has ended in embarrassment.

July 29, 2013

Faculty & Staff

LSU Employees To Get First Pay Raises in Over Four Years

BATON ROUGE La.—LSU faculty and staff will see pay raises of up to 4 percent, under the first salary increase for campuses in more than four years, LSU System President F. King Alexander said Friday. Exactly who will get raises, what type of salary increase people will receive and how much they will cost remains […]

July 28, 2013

Students

Va. College Settles Class Action Suit for $5M

RICHMOND Va.—A federal judge has approved a $5 million class action settlement between a two-year college and thousands of primarily African-American students saddled with loans in return for what their attorneys called a sham education in which teachers sometimes failed to show up for classes. The settlement involves the former Richmond School of Health and […]

July 28, 2013

Community Colleges

Wayne State Breaks Ground on Advanced Tech Center

WARREN, Mich. — Wayne State University is breaking ground on a facility that expands its relationship with Macomb Community College. The Detroit-based university kicks off construction Wednesday of its Advanced Technology Education Center in Warren. The project involves renovating a former retail property across from the Macomb County college north of Detroit. Ahmad Ezzeddine is […]

July 24, 2013

Students

Senate Prepares to Finish Work on Student Loan Deal

Borrowing for tuition, housing and books would be less expensive for students this fall, but the costs would start climbing almost immediately under a deal the Senate was poised to pass Wednesday. The bipartisan proposal lawmakers were considering would link interest rates on federal student loans to the financial markets, providing lower interest rates right […]

July 24, 2013

Students

Report: Steady College Enrollment Growth for Underrepresented Minorities, College Completion Rates Increasing More Slowly

The rate at which Black and Latino students entered four-year colleges outpaced that of Whites, while six-year graduation rates for underrepresented minorities increased only slightly, a new report says.

July 24, 2013

LGBTQ+

Students Ask Feds to Investigate USC Rape Cases

University of Southern California students have filed a federal complaint alleging the school ignored or mishandled sexual assault and rape cases.

July 23, 2013

Faculty & Staff

The Signs of New Millennium Youth and How We Can Help

Today’s world has many more options than it did when I was coming of age.

July 16, 2013

African-American

Study Calls Attention to NYC Effort on Black and Latino Male College Readiness

While African-American and Latino males in New York City showed improvement in high school graduation rates during the last decade, they demonstrated strikingly low levels of college readiness, a new study says.

July 16, 2013

Students

Senate Fails to Keep Student Loan Rates Low

Senate Democrats on Wednesday failed to restore lower interest rates on student loans, again coming up short and perhaps signaling that undergraduates might really face rates twice as high as those of last year.

July 10, 2013

Community Colleges

Report: ‘Quality, Coherence, and Transparency’ Critical to U.S. Skills Attainment

The New America Foundation convened education officials, labor market experts and others to assess findings by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on how Americans can better attain marketable skills.

July 10, 2013

Students

Special Report: Top 100 Undergraduate Degree Producers

In Part 2 of the annual Top 100 Degree Producers editions, Diverse ranks the leading institutions awarding the most undergraduate degrees to minorities, as well as reporting on the successful recruitment, retention, and graduation of students.

July 9, 2013