Federal appeals court ruling narrows Title IX standard for how colleges handle student sexual assault cases
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that Michigan State University and one of its senior administrators cannot be held liable for student victims’ emotional distress after seeing their alleged perpetrators on campus because the interactions did not lead to further sexual harassment or assault,…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — For the first time ever, women are now the majority of U.S. medical school students, according to 2019 data released Tuesday by the Association of American Medical Colleges. This new milestone follows another one reached in 2017, when women comprised the majority of first-year medical students.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Justice Department sued the National Association for College Admission Counseling on Thursday for allegedly violating antitrust rules, but it simultaneously settled the suit with a proposed consent decree based on changes NACAC has already made to its rules.
Read More about U.S. Department of Justice settles antitrust case with National Association for College Admission CounselingWhite House directs federal agencies to consider anti-Semitism in investigating civil rights complaints on college campuses
INSIDE HIGHER ED — President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order focused on anti-Semitism on college campuses, drawing praise from some quarters and concerns from others about implications for free speech on campuses.
Read More about White House directs federal agencies to consider anti-Semitism in investigating civil rights complaints on college campusesOpinion: Need for racial diversity on campuses
THE WASHINGTON POST — We are today, and have been since our origin, a nation divided. Our many schisms arise from political opinions, cultural and racial identities, religious dogma and more. When these differences meet and combust, the results are often destructive, even tragic. How to address the more robust and dangerous differences among us is, in…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Carnegie Mellon University and Elsevier Thursday announced a new agreement to radically change how the institution pays to read and publish research. Instead of paying separately to access Elsevier’s catalog of paywalled content and publish open-access articles in Elsevier journals, Carnegie Mellon will pay one flat fee for both.
Read More about Carnegie Mellon University and Elsevier announce open access articles agreementOpinion: Need for greater diversity in deanships
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Thirty-five percent of education deans who responded to a survey by the Center for Academic Leadership in 1996-97 were women, and 15 percent were racial or ethnic minorities. By the 2015-16 academic year, nearly two-thirds of newly appointed education deans were women, according to The Chronicle’s Gazette listings. However, the…
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NPR — For over half a century, student loan borrowers like Denise — with a significant, permanent disability — have been protected by federal law. If they can no longer work enough to support themselves, they can ask the U.S. Department of Education to erase their debts. But an NPR investigation has found that hundreds of…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Higher education is the great equalizer. Correction: a bachelor’s degree is the great equalizer. Graduate and professional degrees? Not so much, according to a forthcoming study in Social Science Research that seeks to explain why intergenerational mobility is high for college graduates but lower among advanced degree holders.
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — Lawsuit challenges program that lets international students temporarily work in the U.S. Colleges say ending the program would harm students’ education and recruitment abroad. Colleges say that ending the program would severely harm the ability of U.S. universities to attract international students.
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