HBCUs struggle with anxiety and fear amid influx of bomb threats
INSIDE HIGHER ED — There have been at least 59 related incidents investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation since January, according to the FBI, and they have caused campus shutdowns, police sweeps of academic buildings and heightened security on campuses. HBCU students, parents and leaders say the threats have also taken a mental toll,…
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USA TODAY — The COVID-19 pandemic pummelled Latino college enrollment rates. Latino enrollment fell 7% from fall 2019 to fall 2021. At community colleges, the decline was more than twice that. Latino enrollment had grown 48% from 2009 to 2019. “It’s unbelievable how much COVID managed to reverse that,” Iowa State professor Erin Doran said. Latinos are…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED –President Biden proposed a $2,175 increase in the maximum Pell Grant Monday in his budget proposal to Congress for fiscal 2023. That would bring the maximum annual Pell award to $8,670. There is no guarantee the president will get what he’s asking for. And Republicans in Congress are already taking aim at the…
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THE HECHINGER REPORT –Nearly 150 years after its founding, the end was near for Wesley College. A fixture of Delaware’s state capital, the private liberal arts institution had a reputation for offering a close-knit and supportive atmosphere for its students. Even so, its enrollment had dwindled from a high of 2,250 students in 2003 to about…
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HIGHER ED DIVE –The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education recently announced that they will reexamine the Carnegie Classifications to better reflect the public purpose of higher education by creating a classification that ranks institutions based on economic and social mobility and emphasizing the diversity of higher education…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED –State lawmakers have proposed a record 238 anti-LGBTQ+ bills so far this year, according to an analysis by NBC News—nearly six times as many as in all of 2018. They range from a proposed school library ban on books about sexual or gender identity in Oklahoma to legislation prohibiting scholars from publicly…
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THE WASHINGTON POST — Discrimination against transgender students would be a violation of federal civil rights law under proposed regulations the Education Department is expected to finalize in the coming weeks. Title IX bars discrimination on the basis of sex in education, and the new rules would make clear this includes discrimination based on sexual…
Read More about New Title IX rule to improve protections for transgender studentsUS Department of Education revamps rule requiring for-profit colleges to receive no more than 90 percent of profits from federal student loans
HIGHER ED DIVE — Last week, the Education Department wrapped up months of negotiated rulemaking, a process that requires the agency to convene representatives from across higher education to attempt to reach consensus on new regulatory proposals. The sessions involved talks among more than a dozen representatives for different groups, including nonprofit colleges, for-profit institutions and…
Read More about US Department of Education revamps rule requiring for-profit colleges to receive no more than 90 percent of profits from federal student loansThe US Department of Education fails to reach consensus on regulatory proposals
HIGHER ED DIVE — The Ed Department’s positions during the negotiated rulemaking sessions reflect the Biden administration’s desire to crack down on for-profit colleges. Several of the agency’s proposals would tighten regulations governing proprietary colleges and further limit how much of their revenue can come from federal financial aid. After private talks with representatives for student…
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — Many student-facing administrators are considering leaving higher education, thanks to a fraught political climate, limited resources, and a rapidly expanding set of responsibilities that are causing exhaustion and burnout. Colleges urgently need to take steps to keep them around. That’s a key conclusion of a new report from Naspa: Student Affairs…
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