Tag: Education: Page 18

Students

Student Loan Default Rate Rises Slightly

The portion of students defaulting on their federal student loans inched up 11.3 to 11.5 percent, data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education show.

September 27, 2017

Students

Evaluation Tool Gives Writing Instructors a Helping Hand

A web-based evaluation tool is allowing writing instructors to spend more time improving student writing outcomes at their institutions.

September 27, 2017

Students

Agents of Change: Increasing the Millennial Vote at MSIs

What would the young, ethnic minority voting bloc look like if more Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) became polling sites for local and national elections?

September 27, 2017

Students

Lopez Helps University of Phoenix Spread Its Cross-Cultural Wings

Saray E. Lopez, the assistant dean of community outreach & inclusion, is a driving force behind the University of Phoenix’s successful minority outreach efforts.

September 27, 2017

Faculty & Staff

University of Wyoming Sees High Amount of Resignations

LARAMIE, Wyo. — University of Wyoming officials say they have lost 86 faculty members throughout the past academic year, four times more than it would lose in a typical year. The Laramie Boomerang reports the university suspects many of those that resigned left over concerns related to budget cuts and the central leadership of the […]

September 27, 2017

Students

Confederate Posters Found at American University

WASHINGTON — American University says 10 confederate flag posters with cotton attached to them have been reported on the school’s Washington, D.C. campus. University President Sylvia Burwell said in a statement on Wednesday that video shows “the perpetrator(s) coming on to the campus and hanging the posters.” University police are investigating and have released an […]

September 27, 2017

Students

Several Arrested at UC Berkeley Protest Amid Tense Exchanges

BERKELEY, Calif. — Police arrested at least four people Tuesday during a small but tense rally staged by a politically conservative group at the University of California, Berkeley. Amid heavy police presence, the protest was led by Joey Gibson, leader of a group called Patriot Prayer, and supporters including Kyle Chapman, a self-described “American nationalist.” […]

September 27, 2017

STEM

2 Ohio Colleges Apply for Medical Marijuana Testing

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two colleges have applied to handle testing for Ohio’s nascent medical marijuana program. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Commerce tells The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Central State University in southwest Ohio and Hocking College in southeast Ohio both sent in applications by last Friday’s deadline. State law mandates only colleges […]

September 27, 2017

Leadership & Policy

U. of Louisville Places Rick Pitino, AD on Administrative Leave

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rick Pitino couldn’t survive another scandal, as an angry interim University of Louisville president Wednesday placed the head men’s college basketball coach and his boss on administrative leave amid a nationwide federal bribery investigation that has rocked the sport. President Greg Postel’s decision comes after the school acknowledged on Tuesday that the […]

September 27, 2017

Students

Expert: Lower-income Dual Enrollment Students Need Additional Support

A new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) sheds some light on postsecondary degree-completion outcomes once dual enrollment students leave high school on a state-by-state basis.

September 26, 2017

Sports

4 Basketball Assistant Coaches Charged in College Bribery Scheme

Ten men — including a top Adidas executive and four college basketball assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors.

September 26, 2017

Opinion

We Need to Talk About the Shifting Meaning of Diversity

The notion that diversity implies accommodating all differences is dangerous and reproduces structural inequality.

September 26, 2017