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Baylor Confirms Exemption from Title IX Claims

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2016, the education department investigated the school over accusations that it didn’t address claims of sexual crimes, many of which were against football players. Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in a letter to the school’s president, Dr. Linda Livingstone. The confirmation follows other Title IX trouble for Baylor.

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Film About the Abuse of People of Color Becomes a Teaching Tool

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days. I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. the involvement of the federal government in the assassinations of Black civil rights leaders, and more. Alton Sterling.

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A Heart for People

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While cities have made great strides in preparing for the extremes of climate change, and local, state, and federal governments are paying more attention to the growing crisis, more needs to be done to protect and reach out to marginalized and vulnerable populations, said Monteblanco.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. When we launched IMBA (online) in 2016, we disrupted business education in that we offer an MBA for under $24,000,” says Elliott. “We Other graduate students have received promotions to senior level managers.

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How higher education leaders can institute and support financial literacy programs for their student body

Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

Financial Literacy and Education Commission, between the academic years of 2004-2005 and 2015-2016, the cost of undergraduate tuition, fees, and room and board at public institutions rose 34%. This means that more students have taken on debt to pay for college—much of which consists of federal government loans totaling more than 1.5

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.”

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Online Program Manager for University of Arizona Global Campus Facing Financial Collapse

Higher Education Inquirer

Cash assets have decreased from $357 million in 2016 to $33 million in 2021. But what happens to federal government funding and oversight if Zovio collapses? With three consecutive years of financial losses, Zovio (formerly known as Bridgepoint Education) lost a record $61 million in 2020.