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JANUARY 22, 2024

With the 2024 presidential election on the horizon, the Biden-Harris administration is continuing its student loan debt relief efforts, this time approving nearly $5 billion. Last July, the adjustment resulted in the approval of $39 billion in student loan forgiveness to 804,000 borrowers. students who were not born into wealth."

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JANUARY 23, 2023

UK Student Behaviour Report, commissioned by Chegg’s Center for Digital Learning and produced in partnership with Hanover Research, with input into the survey from Universities UK, delves into the state of student mental health.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We fully dedicate ourselves to maintaining our accreditation and fostering an environment of academic excellence and opportunity for our students,” said Burgess. The news outlet also noted a $7.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The Daytona Beach News Journal reported that the case file in the Florida Middle District in Orlando was closed in February. University officials said the former alumni association committed to providing B-CU all funds it has raised for student scholarships, to be distributed directly by B-CU for student scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

With student debt spiraling out of control, people are increasingly interested in examining whether the tuition really pays off in terms of economic benefits. The panelists generally agreed that the new focus on social mobility was a positive development. News and World Report and Washington Monthly are significantly different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

He got news of the acceptance in February of last year, he said. 23, the band and the following festivities will parade through 77th Street and Central Park West in New York City. It’s a great reward for our students to be able to attend this parade because they’ve worked hard to raise the funds for the past two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution. That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. In fall of 2023, 5.3%

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

Albanese said on Thursday that “there’s a range of areas we need to do much better for the younger generation and Hecs is one of them” and that announcements would be made “pretty soon” on changes to make the student loan “simpler and fairer”.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2023

14 for new contract, after a week of faculty strikes, NBC News reported. Those on strike – professors, part-time lecturers, and graduate student workers – had been making demands for improvements such as salary increases, better adjunct job security, and guaranteed funding for graduate students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Baptist News Global "The amount of the fine is absolutely ridiculous, but the point is, whether it was one dollar or $38 million, we're not paying a dime," Mueller said. "We Today, we are holding GCU accountable for its actions, protecting students and taxpayers, and upholding the integrity of the federal student aid programs."

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JUNE 9, 2023

Ben Cannon This new approach – approved by Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC) – is a student-focused distribution model that allocates a portion of money to support Oregon’s community college student success and equity. The new method is expected to take effect in fiscal year 2025.

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The Guardian Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2024

But measures introduced by the former Morrison government that doubled the price of some degrees to incentivise students into other courses didn’t dissuade him, nor did recent cost-of-living increases. Continue reading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2023

student at the university. Researchers expected digital leisure reading for informational purposes, such as reading the news online, would be more positively linked to comprehension, but that was not the case, according to Altamura.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Michigan State University (MSU) tenure-track faculty have launched a public unionization campaign to gain more influence in administrative decision-making, The State News reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

31, after a plan for acquisition by Trocaire College fell through, Buffalo News reported. In Fall 2012, it had 2,600 students. The school will work to help students transfer and help faculty and staff find new employment. Students on track to complete required credit hours and graduate on or before Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Amid news that the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.

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Ray Schroeder

JANUARY 6, 2023

Three in 10 college transfer students are losing an alarming number of academic credits upon moving to a new institution, according to a study from UPCEA, an association of adult and continuing education units at colleges and universities, and StraighterLine.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 27, 2023

Four Pennsylvania men have been charged after a Black Lehigh University student was allegedly called a racial slur, chased to his dorm, and assaulted, CNN reported. Students have a right to feel safe when they are on or around campus.” All four men allegedly chased the victim on foot into his dorm building.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2023

Savannah State University has laid off 23 employees and frozen currently vacant positions to remedy financial challenges due to declining enrollment, Savannah Morning News reported. SSU is also planning to optimize operating costs of some campus buildings underutilized with fewer students on campus. decrease from 2,759 last year.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

student at the university. Researchers expected digital leisure reading for informational purposes, such as reading the news online, would be more positively linked to comprehension, but that was not the case, according to Altamura.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2023

GCU News The FTC filed a complaint against Grand Canyon Education Inc. million fine levied against the university” on related claims it misleads and deceives students. GCE advertised on websites and social media urging prospective students to submit their contact information on digital forms, according to FTC filings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Hocking College is facing a lawsuit from a former student with Down syndrome who is alleging disability discrimination, retaliation, and assault, ABC News reported. And in May 2022, the supervisor threatened Cox with a knife in the student center bathroom.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Mott Community College’s automotive department is reopening its student service garage to the public starting Feb. 13, giving drivers a low-cost option for auto repairs again, ABC12 News reported. Meanwhile, Mott students gain skills by working on vehicles with oversight from instructors, ASE Certified mechanics.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

News & World Report released its latest college rankings yesterday, and colleges are touting their improvements, prevailing against the barrage of criticism it received at the turn of the year. News found itself in on the back heel. News a “false altar” to which the public worships. The new lens U.S.

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Robert Kelchen

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

News and World Report. News usually puts together a really helpful list of metrics and weights, and this year is no exception. Fully seventy percent of these rankings are tied to metrics of social mobility, with a massive survey of students and alumni (20%) and diversity metrics (10%) making up the remainder.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Nichols College President Glenn Sulmasy has resigned, following reports that he allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with several students during his time teaching at the U.S. Sulmasy Nichols had opened an investigation into the retired US Coast Guard captain after news of the allegations broke. Coast Guard Academy, CNN reported.

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APRIL 18, 2023

“SUNY Old Westbury is proud to be recognized formally as a university, a recognition that is reflective of our rigorous, high-quality academic offerings at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,” Sams said in a news release. This new designation rightly represents the type of institution that we are today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

This appointment makes her NWTC’s first female president, Fox 11 News reported. Previously, she has been vice president of academic affairs and interim vice president student affairs at Saint Paul College and dean of academic development and services at Chippewa Valley Technical College. “I Raney holds an Ed.D. in English from St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

News of the closing – announced Sep. 22 – came as a surprise to students and faculty alike, a little over a week before the new school term was set to start on Oct. Student Justice Perez Sanders, 16, was only able to retrieve some of her art portfolio because she was not able to access the school’s servers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

A Florida judge has allowed a class-action lawsuit to proceed with accusations the state discriminates against a historically Black university while prioritizing its largest public university, a predominantly white, NBC News r eported. We’re talking about segregating African American students from white students,” Dubin said.

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MAY 4, 2023

Bluefield University was subject to hackers this week, with them taking over the Virginia university’s emergency alerts system and threatening to leak school files if the school doesn’t pay up, NBC News reported. “We We have admissions data from thousands of students. Earlier this week, school information has not been published.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

News that the private 1,300-student college will be incorporated into the public university came less than a year after Montclair State loaned Bloomfield money to help avoid shutting down. Bloomfield is the state’s only four-year private college serving predominantly Black and Hispanic students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2023

Police in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are investigating "hate-motivated vandalism" at two off-campus fraternity houses at the University of Michigan, ABC News reported. The fraternity houses were vacant for the summer, but students will be living in them come the fall, Ono said. Ono in a statement.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

An overwhelming majority of surveyed students say they believe earning microcredentials or professional certificates will better position them for employment upon graduation, according to data from Coursera. Coursera surveyed 3,600 students and employers in Australia, India, France, Germany, Mexico, Turkey, the UK, and the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Armbrister – the 14th president of the historically Black college and university (HBCU) – broke the news in a message to students Jan. Clarence D.

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Ray Schroeder

JULY 30, 2023

The onus will be on institutions to genuinely respond to student expectations rather than using rankings as a surrogate for quality. No need to pay middle men in the form of agents and aggregators because the students can do the searching for themselves.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

A 21-year-old New York City college student who was sentenced to prison in the United Arab Emirates has been freed, ABC News reported. De Los Santos had been detained in Dubai since July.

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