Study: Male students ask for grade changes more frequently
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Male students are 18.6 percent more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes when they ask for a grade change or challenge a grade, the researchers report. The researchers based their analysis on “a unique administrative dataset” from an unnamed large four-year public university that included final grade records and any grade…
Read More about Study: Male students ask for grade changes more frequentlySurvey: More than 40 percent of college trustees concerned about future of higher education
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Trustees have grown significantly more concerned about the future of higher education in the last year, according to new polling released today that points to financial sustainability and the prices students pay as top sources of anxiety. The data also seem to indicate college and university trustees will need to raise their level…
Read More about Survey: More than 40 percent of college trustees concerned about future of higher educationAmerican colleges suspend travel to China in response to Coronavirus infections
INSIDE HIGHER ED — American universities and colleges have announced new restrictions on travel to China in response to upgraded travel advisories from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of State related to the continued spread of coronavirus. The CDC expanded its travel advisory for China on Monday to recommend against nonessential travel to…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Students at several U.S. universities are tested for possible cases of a novel coronavirus. Experts weigh in on how colleges can prepare for the virus.
Read More about A look how universities are preparing for the CoronavirusAACU Annual Meeting: Scholars discuss the future of higher education
INSIDE HIGHER ED — At the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, academics discussed how to rethink the academy and how to separate it from the university.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The acquisition is the second of its kind for Belmont University in the past two years. Belmont, a growing private Christian institution that is set to host the third and final presidential debate of 2020, recently merged with the O’More College of Design and sold the college’s former campus. Both mergers speak to…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — A panel including lawmakers involved in Congress’s last renewal of the Higher Education Act says that law is now obsolete, recommending a series of changes. In a series of recommendations released Wednesday, a panel of former lawmakers and education experts, chaired by the top Democrat and Republican on the House education committee that helped write…
Read More about Bipartisan Policy Center recommends series of changes to Higher Education ActParent PLUS loans account for quarter of borrowing for college
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A new study adds to growing concerns about a federal program that allows parents to take out loans to help finance their children’s undergraduate education. An increasing portion of parents also are struggling to pay off these loans. For example, the five-year default rate grew to 11 percent for parents who took out PLUS loans in…
Read More about Parent PLUS loans account for quarter of borrowing for collegePodcast: A look at the first issue of the MIT Computational Law Report
ABA JOURNAL — In spring 2019, MIT announced the MIT Computational Law Report, which according to its website, “is an agile, new media online publication that explores the ways that law and legal processes can be re-imagined and engineered as computational systems.” Of course, MIT does not have a law school. However, according to Bryan Wilson, editor-in-chief…
Read More about Podcast: A look at the first issue of the MIT Computational Law ReportInternational MBA programs see growth during drop in U.S. MBA enrollment
BLOOMSBURG BUSINESSWEEK — At a glance the MBA might appear to be in trouble. Applications worldwide to advanced business programs dropped 6.9% this year, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which administers the GMAT test, a key benchmark for prospective students. But the world outside America tells a very different story. Bloomberg Businessweek spoke with deans…
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