Using the summer to improve online teaching skills
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — If there’s one big takeaway from the Covid-19 crisis for higher education, it’s that teaching well online is increasingly, and vitally, important. Maybe you’re thinking: Well, once this global health threat recedes — with testing, tracing, and vaccines — online learning will diminish in prevalence and I can go back…
Read More about Using the summer to improve online teaching skillsAccommodating student needs during the pandemic through course design
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — The pandemic has intensified differences in students’ circumstances. One way professors can respond: Create courses that give students options.
Read More about Accommodating student needs during the pandemic through course designUS Supreme Court blocks decision to end DACA program
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was “arbitrary and capricious.”
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — As the clock was ticking toward the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous decision on Thursday to block the Trump administration from immediately ending a program that has been a lifeline for undocumented students like herself, Erika Landa was struggling to concentrate on her studies, and her grades were slipping.
Read More about Analysis of US Supreme Court decision on DACAFederal judge partially blocks Department of Education rule limiting eligibility for emergency grants
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A federal judge in Washington State has blocked the Education Department’s rule limiting which college students are eligible for emergency grants but left in place a ban on undocumented students getting the aid.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The historic strength of the test-optional movement has been liberal arts colleges. Many that were not already test optional shifted their policies — some permanently, some for one or two years — in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic interfering with test taking in the spring. Eighty-five percent of the 100 top liberal…
Read More about Research universities forgo admissions testsUS Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ protections impacts colleges on how they define sex and enforce gender equality on campus
INSIDE HIGHER ED — U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling extending protections against employment discrimination to LGBTQ people has implications for how colleges define sex and enforce gender equality on campus.
Read More about US Supreme Court ruling on LGBTQ protections impacts colleges on how they define sex and enforce gender equality on campusStudy: Small class size may not benefit all students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — There is now a body of literature questioning the link between small class size and student success. A new study of interactions between different class sizes and more than a dozen other variables within Temple University’s general education program further supports the “small ain’t all” argument. It encourages educational researchers to look…
Read More about Study: Small class size may not benefit all studentsCollege graduates share frustrations with Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
YAHOO! FINANCE — Congress created the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF) in 2007 to help various kinds of public service workers erase their student debt after ten years of loan payments. To better understand the PSLF process, Yahoo Finance spoke with two public servants who tried to use the PSLF program to get their student debt discharged.
Read More about College graduates share frustrations with Public Service Loan Forgiveness ProgramStanford Law students object to professor reading quote containing racial epithet in class
ABA JOURNAL — Stanford law professor Michael McConnell has said he won’t use the N-word again after using the racial slur in class to illustrate how Southerners used racism to generate opposition to the creation of the Constitution.
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