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Chronicle of Higher Education
Republican Tax Proposal Gets Failing Grade From Higher-Ed Groups
Republicans in Congress released their proposed overhaul of the nation’s tax laws on Thursday, including several measures that would place new tax burdens on colleges and students — and, critics said, could undermine charitable giving to higher education. The bill was met with immediate opposition from a number of higher-education groups, which argued that the…
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EdTech Magazine
University Manufacturing Centers Prove a Boon for Industry, Too
Preparing students for the workforce is integral to the success of a higher education institution. Manufacturing programs at universities have embraced the same technology that the industry is using for this specific purpose. The Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute leverages a public-private partnership to foster research and give students real-world skills.
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AgWeb
Breaking Down Silos Builds Stronger Research
Issues facing the world are not divided into academic departments, and universities should reflect that reality in their search for solutions, Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, said at the Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium. The big issues almost always require social sciences as well as traditional life sciences,” McPherson said…
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Connecticut Post
In budget talks, professors’ workloads become an issue
Tom Ebaugh, working toward a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, says Radenka Maric is the reason he’s doing it at the University of Connecticut. “I wouldn’t be here if she wasn’t,” said Ebaugh, 24, wearing plastic gloves and protective glasses at a fuel cell energy laboratory, part of UConn’s Center for Clean Energy Engineering. Originally from…
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Inside Higher Ed
Return of the College Scorecard
An Obama administration initiative that provided consumer information on colleges and universities has survived for another year and into the Trump administration. The Department of Education published updated information on the College Scorecard Thursday, including a new feature that allows students to compare data from up to 10 institutions at once. The update is a…
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Chicago Tribune
Why colleges play a role in handling sexual assault cases
Public scrutiny of how colleges handle sexual assault cases is appropriate. Institutions should be held accountable for safeguarding the rights of complainants and respondents. That these cases are often extremely complicated and challenging does not in any way diminish the need for fair policies. It’s often misunderstood why colleges are involved in adjudicating sexual assault…
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Stop Looking at Rankings. Use Academe’s Own Measures Instead.
As the higher-education community begins the new academic year, we also prepare for the latestround of college rankings from U.S. News & World Report. We can expect coverage on which colleges have risen and which have fallen, followed by the usual laments from institutions’ presidents about how meaningless these rankings really are. My own perspective…
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A Peek Inside the New IPEDS Outcome Measures Dataset
Much of higher education policy focuses on “traditional” college students—those who started college at age 18 after getting dropped off in the family station wagon or minivan, enrolled full-time, and stayed at that institution until graduation. Yet although this is how many policymakers and academics experienced college (I’m no exception), this represents a minority of…
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WCHL
UNC Chancellor ‘Deeply Disappointed And Saddened’ Over DACA Decision
UNC Chancellor Carol Folt and other university leadership are “deeply disappointed and saddened” by the decision from President Donald Trump to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. United States Attorney General announced that decision from the Trump administration on Tuesday. UNC administrators responded in a letter to the campus community on Wednesday.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Colleges Deplore Trump’s Threat to DACA. How Far Can They Go to Fight It?
As Labor Day wound to a close, college press offices were busy. News had broken over the weekend that the Trump administration planned to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, known as DACA, with a six-month delay to allow Congress time to attempt a legislative fix.
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