California State University system schools to drop tests for undergraduate admissions
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The California State University Board of Trustees voted unanimouslyWednesday to no longer use standardized SAT and ACT tests in undergraduate admissions. That means that even if an applicant submits scores for admission to one of the system’s 23 campuses, Cal State admissions counselors won’t look at them. The system’s campuses enroll a total…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Thursday about the series of bomb threats received by historically Black colleges and universities this year. Several HBCU student leaders told lawmakers of the fear and anxiety felt by students, faculty and staff members on their campuses and the value of an HBCU…
Read More about Congress holds hearing on bomb threats at historically Black collegesCollege professor sues students for sharing exams on online platform
INSIDE HIGHER ED — An assistant professor of business at Chapman University is suing students for posting parts of his midterm and final course exams on the website Course Hero. But he doesn’t know who those students are yet. That’s what the lawsuit is for: by suing John Does for copyright infringement, the professor, David Berkovitz,…
Read More about College professor sues students for sharing exams on online platformDetails on federal student loan forgiveness qualifications
FORBES — Last week, the Biden administration announced that it had identified 100,000 borrowers who will qualify for $6.2 billion in student loan forgiveness — the latest wave of relief that the administration is providing to distressed borrowers. But the loan forgiveness has been preliminarily approved under a specific program with specific eligibility criteria. Here’s who qualifies. The…
Read More about Details on federal student loan forgiveness qualificationsSurvey: Public opinion of higher education improves slightly
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Public confidence in higher education ebbed badly in the latter half of the last decade, to judge by the steady stream of opinion polls from 2017 through 2019 that showed Americans (especially Republicans) increasingly convinced that colleges and universities were heading in the wrong direction, failing to prepare graduates for work and…
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THE ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION — A Senate version of legislation that seeks to control classroom discussions of race would no longer affect Georgia’s public colleges and universities. In addition, K-12 school districts would no longer face financial penalties for violating the provisions in Senate Bill 377. The Senate Education and Youth Committee made those amendments…
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MARKETPLACE — According to the Institute of International Education, more than 6,500 Ukrainian and Russian students attended college or grad school in the United States last school year. If being abroad during COVID-19 hasn’t been hard enough, now these students are dealing with war and changing economies at home. For the past several months, Hanna Onyshchenko has…
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INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Arizona Board of Regents announced Monday it would exit all investments in Russian assets, adding the three-university system to a small but growing list of institutions that have severed economic ties with Russia as the country continues its invasion of Ukraine. The board “condemns in the strongest possible terms Vladimir Putin’s illegal…
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DIVERSE ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION — On last Thursday, the governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, signed a bill into law that will ban trans girls and women from playing sports in college and high school. This move comes less than a week after Wyoming’s state senators passed a budget amendment to stop funding the University of Wyoming’s…
Read More about How anti-LGBTQ state bills affect students in higher educationUniversity of Missouri policy allows president to make significant cuts in tenured faculty salaries
INSIDE HIGHER ED — In the COVID-19–induced chaos of spring 2020, the University of Missouri system quietly added a section to its rules and regulations that allows for individual tenured faculty salaries to be cut by up to 25 percent. This could be for productivity, enrollment or other reasons. The rule change went largely unnoticed for a year, until…
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