Students from lower income families most likely to cancel or change college plans amid pandemic
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Students’ incomes appear to have had major impacts on whether they continued at community colleges or left completely during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new analysis from the Community College Research Center at Teachers College of Columbia University. The analysis used U.S. Census Bureau data.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Law School Survey of Student Engagement, released Tuesday, chronicles changes in law education in the United States from 2004 to 2019. While law education has become more diverse in terms of race and ethnicity, those gains have been unequal. The report also details ballooning debt burdens for law students.
Read More about Law School Survey of Student Engagement report looks at changes in legal education over the last 15 yearsUC Irvine Law dean L. Song Richardson named next president of Colorado College
THE COLORADO SPRINGS BUSINESS JOURNAL — L. Song Richardson will be the 14th president of Colorado College. Richardson, who is Black and Korean, will be the first woman of color to hold the presidency at CC. Richardson is currently the dean and chancellor’s professor of law at University of California Irvine School of Law.
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DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — Mary J. Davis, interim dean of University of Kentucky’s J. David Rosenberg College of Law, has been appointed dean of the law school , effective Jan. 1, 2021. She will be the first woman to be permanent dean of the law school, according to a university press release.
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THE HECHINGER REPORT — Students may aim for a four-year university. They may attend a local community college or technical school. They may choose the military. A few may go to colleges like Vanderbilt and Yale. But the goal is not to name-check elites; it’s to educate local students for living-wage jobs.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Pitzer College is launching a bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated students, according to a media advisory. The college claims to be the first college in the nation to create such a program. Both incarcerated students and Pitzer students will take the courses inside a correctional facility.
Read More about Pitzer College announces bachelor’s degree program for incarcerated studentsReport: Women and faculty of color have lower salaries and less job security than White or male faculty
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Women and people of color make less money and have less job security than their white, male counterparts in academe, according to a new “snapshot” analysis of federal data from 2018 by the American Association of University Professors. “That these data sets predate the advent of COVID-19 is cause for true alarm.”
Read More about Report: Women and faculty of color have lower salaries and less job security than White or male facultySecretary of State Mike Pompeo criticizes US colleges with ties to China
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of Chinese government influence on American campuses and accused university leaders of censoring themselves out of fear of offending China during a speech Wednesday at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The speech was notable for the strident tone.
Read More about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticizes US colleges with ties to ChinaDepartment of Education cuts result in staff reductions in student loan servicing
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Education Department said that “with payments now suspended for millions of borrowers, we understand that servicers have reduced their staffing numbers. However, when repayment begins and servicers must resume their normal servicing activities, we are confident that they will return to pre-COVID staffing levels.”
Read More about Department of Education cuts result in staff reductions in student loan servicingSome colleges continue pass-fail option for fall semester grades
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Many colleges adopted pass-fail grading policies in the spring term to give students breathing room amid COVID-19 disruptions. Students are again lobbying for such policies for the term that’s swiftly coming to a close. On the whole, students seeking pass-fail policies this term are encountering much more opposition.
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