From the James Martin Center: DeVos’s department is also deeply involved in higher education, but the issues are different. What roils higher education are problems such as excessive costs, lack of intellectual diversity, faltering academic…
Topic: higher education
Critic of Obama’s Education Policies is the New House Committee Chairwoman
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina congresswoman, has criticized the Obama Department of Education for their higher education policies. Now, she’s in charge of a congressional committee overseeing the department.
Obama’s New Regulation on Students Suing Colleges over Broken Promises Appears to be Vague
From the Washington Monthly: The Department of Education recently unveiled the final regulations known as “borrower defense to repayment” in a response to concerns about colleges defrauding students or suddenly closing their doors. These wide-ranging regulations, which…
College Bureaucracies Grew 15% during the Great Recession, while Budgets and Tuition Rose
From The Hechinger Report: Even if some system offices are finally taking over functions once left to the campuses, any widespread savings — as measured by collective reductions in positions and spending — have yet…
Donald Trump Talked Specifics on College Reform
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is not a beacon of conservative politics or policies in higher education: At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, the Republican nominee ventured into what was for him uncharted…
Hillary Clinton’s College Plan Makes the Wrong Assumptions
George Leef at Forbes makes the case of why the Clinton campaign is misunderstanding the issues with higher education at colleges: The key objective of Clinton’s plan is to get more Americans into college, especially…
Auburn Engineering Professor Mocks Trigger Warnings in his syllabus
An engineering professor at Auburn mocked trigger warnings in his syllabus. Good for him!
ITT Tech could Close after Federal Investigation
From Inside Higher Ed on the potential collapse of ITT Tech, a for-profit academic institution: Last week, after years of investigations, the U.S. Department of Education banned ITT Tech from enrolling new students who receive federal funding while…
Free Online College Tuition for Union Members at a Ohio Community College
From Inside Higher Ed: Eastern Gateway Community College in Steubenville, Ohio, is opening up its online courses to the more than 1.6 million members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and their…
Hunger Strike: Professor Alleges He Wasn’t Evaluated Fairly in Tenure Rejection
From Inside Higher Ed: Juan Rojo, an assistant professor of Spanish at Lafayette College, is doing something different, and arguably harder. After receiving the final word on his failed tenure bid last month, he announced at…