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EdScoop
For stopout students, Texas State pins hopes on new data-fueled partnership
Students who stopped short of earning their degrees at Texas State University may soon receive a personalized phone call or text encouraging them to reenroll and avail themselves of the higher salaries and other opportunities that typically follow graduates.
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Inside Higher Ed
Senate Republicans Propose $29 Billion for Higher Ed
Senate Republicans in their opening bid for negotiations with Democrats over the next coronavirus aid package proposed giving colleges and universities an additional $29 billion in aid, which is a figure American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten called “woefully inadequate.”
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Inside Higher Ed
University of Arizona’s Big Online Push
The University of Arizona is moving online in a big way with a deal that could shake up the online education market and could signal more changes to come. The public land-grant university announced today that it will acquire Ashford University — a fully online university that enrolls roughly 35,000 students.
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Bloomberg
Public Colleges Face Gut Punch From States’ Covid Deficits
America’s public colleges and universities are facing one of their toughest financial challenges ever as the economic collapse hammers state tax collections and tens of thousands of students opt to wait out the pandemic or study online.
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Science Magazine
Research security bill advances in U.S. Senate despite opposition from research groups
A U.S. Senate panel yesterday unanimously endorsed legislation to tighten oversight of federally funded researchers with ties to foreign governments. The move came despite objections from universities whose faculty would come under increased scrutiny if the bill becomes law.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
How College Leaders Can Bridge the Growing ‘Trust Gap’
Harmony on campus is hard to come by even when the stakes are lower. The brutally tough decisions colleges have been or soon will be making — how to teach in the fall, where to cut as budgets tighten — are among the most challenging that institutions have faced, at least since 2008. And for…
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Forbes
How to Safeguard American Science
As scientists across the globe embarked on a race to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19, the FBI revealed hackers sponsored by the Chinese government were mounting a cyber assault to gain critical information from U.S.-led medical research trials.
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Politico
Trump administration drops plan to deport international students in online-only classes
Two of the country’s top universities won a major victory over the Trump administration on Tuesday, after the government agreed to halt its plan to deport international college students who only use online courses to study this fall.
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Diverse Education
Achieving Diversity in STEM Faculty Requires Systemic Change, Says Report
In 2001, Judith Ramaley, a director at the National Science Foundation, coined the acronym STEM for education disciplines in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Since then, NSF and other public and private entities have provided numerous grants and incentives to support initiatives for STEM diversity in education.
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Forbes
Adding Uncertainty On Top Of Uncertainty For International Students
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced new guidance Monday allowing the federal government to expel international higher education students if their university campuses are forced to transition to entirely online courses due to COVID-19. Even for international students already living in the United States, a transition to fully remote learning mid-semester could mean they’re…
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