Battling Over Bailout for Private Student Loans  Nov. 21

After financial aid officers’ group urges federal government to extend financial help to providers of alternative loans, student and college associations take the other side, aggressively. more

Ethics and Militarization Dominate Anthropology Meeting  Nov. 21

At annual business meeting, anthropologists weigh in on planned review of the ethics code. Tensions simmer. more

Easing the Transition from High School to College  Nov. 21

Minnesota community college hosts a full-fledged high school on its campus, where students take career-oriented courses while earning college credits. The model is catching on. more

History Employment — Public and Private  Nov. 21

While enrollments are up more at state colleges and universities than at independent institutions, jobs don’t necessarily follow. more

Quick Takes: Online Push in Minnesota, Boston College Shifts Funds to Aid, Raises Raise Eyebrows at Cal State, Higher Ed Job for Fla. Speaker, Alumni Group Loses Legal Fight, U. of Kansas Patent Suit, Righting a McCarthy Era Wrong  Nov. 21

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New Presidents or Provosts: Gadsden State CC, Lord Fairfax CC, Mississippi State U., New England Board of Higher Education, Stetson College  Nov. 21

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News from the past two weeks

Below, find News stories published over the past two weeks. For older items, please search the archives.

• Concerns About Clustering  Nov. 20
• Looking to the Past to Ban Legacy Admissions  Nov. 20
• New Model for Education Research  Nov. 20
• Anthropologists Consider Notions of ‘Community’ in Education  Nov. 20
• Top Profs  Nov. 20
• Quick Takes: Athletic Oversight Found Lacking at Rutgers, College Blasted Over Use of Bond Funds, Gift Doubles Le Moyne Endowment, IPO for For-Profit College, Tenn. State Bans ‘Juicy’ Web Site, Conversation Monitors at a Canadian University  Nov. 20
• Quick Fix  Nov. 19
• The Sociologist Gap  Nov. 19
• Privacy Concerns About U.S. Database  Nov. 19
• When Austrian Economics and Jesuit Theology Don’t Mix  Nov. 19
• Quick Takes: Presidential Donations, A’s at Brown, Busting the Police Chief, Conviction Over ‘Low Work’ Job, Settlement With Ex-President of Community College of Denver, Plagiarism Vigilante Answers Comments, Stimulus Would Help NIH, Calling Tim and Heidi  Nov. 19
• New Programs: Nonprofit Studies, Renewable Energy, Applied Design, Biomolecular Engineering, Forensics, Physical Therapy  Nov. 19
• The Bubble That Didn’t Burst  Nov. 18
• With Students Flocking Online, Will Faculty Follow?  Nov. 18
• An ‘All-LEED’ 2-Year College Campus  Nov. 18
• Nevada College Chancellor Asks U.S. for $3 Billion Bailout  Nov. 18
• Quick Takes: Obama’s Transition Team for NSF and NEH, Details on Cal State Cuts, Layoffs at Oral Roberts, Ties to India, Budget Freedom for Suffolk County CC, Iran and Venezuela Plan University, Confederates vs. Johns Hopkins  Nov. 18
• Newly Tenured ... at Eastern Illinois, Sonoma State, U. of Toledo, Western Connecticut State  Nov. 18
• Record Year* for Foreign Student Enrollment  Nov. 17
• What You Can’t Win in Court  Nov. 17
• Aid Expert to Play Key Role in Transition  Nov. 17
• Helping Community Colleges Raise the Bar  Nov. 17
• Quick Takes: Cuomo Probes Student Health Insurance, Survey Suggests Loan Difficulties, Furloughs at Wilberforce, Tennessee’s New File-Sharing Law, President in Doubt at Baylor Med, Fires at Westmont, Recovery at Compton, Reminder About Pot  Nov. 17
• New Presidents or Provosts: Austin College, Bevill State CC, College of DuPage, Johns Hopkins U., North Georgia Technical College, Sierra Nevada College  Nov. 17
• Maelstrom Over Metadata  Nov. 14
• Accusations and Suicides  Nov. 14
• Welfare Reform and Women’s College Enrollment  Nov. 14
• Why Some of the Best and Brightest Skip College  Nov. 14
• Quick Takes: Rebuilding in Manhattan, Vennard to Close, Cornell Adds to Aid Program, College Stereotypes, Haverford’s Unusual Coach  Nov. 14
• New Programs: Dental Hygiene, Education, Forensics, Management, Neuroscience  Nov. 14
• So Goes the Nation  Nov. 13
• Vigilante Justice on Plagiarism  Nov. 13
• Discrediting the “Model Minority” Stereotype  Nov. 13
• As Economy Wavers, Online Enrollments Climb  Nov. 13
• Nicholls State Faulted on Treatment of Long-Term Adjunct  Nov. 13
• Quick Takes: New Bailout Might Help Student Loans, NEH Chair and Sara Tucker Plan Departures, UT Galveston Faces Massive Layoffs, Dispute Over Death of Community College’s Paper, Gifts of $260M for NYU Med, News Spoof  Nov. 13
• 6-6 Course Loads and No Benefits  Nov. 12
• Fleshing Out Student Aid Simplification (Update)  Nov. 12
• Gates Foundation to Spend Big on Community Colleges  Nov. 12
• 50-Yard-Line Seats and Faculty Oversight  Nov. 12
• Sustainable Curriculums  Nov. 12
• Quick Takes: Postdoc Poison, Cuts at Ashland, Racist Comments at Lehigh  Nov. 12
• Building a Better Admissions Test  Nov. 11
• How to Shop for Carbon Offsets  Nov. 11
• ‘Free Market’ for Higher Ed  Nov. 11
• Grants, Scrutiny for Veterans Education  Nov. 11
• A ‘Practical Guide’ to the Academic Portfolio  Nov. 11
• Quick Takes: Iran Releases Northridge Student on Bail, Economic Downturn Hits Harvard, Phoenix Settles Claims of Pro-Mormon Bias, IU Compromise on Building Named for Segregationist, Next Hopkins President, New Name for Land Grant Group, Alumni Snobbery  Nov. 11
• Encouraging Colleges to Look Within  Nov. 10
• More U.S. Help for Student Loan Providers  Nov. 10
• Down 36 Students, College Will Lose 40 Jobs  Nov. 10
• Assessing a Hot Assessment Tool  Nov. 10
• Defining and Debating ‘Double Dipping’  Nov. 10
• International Student Growth Still Slowing  Nov. 10
• New Push on Producing Science and Math Teachers  Nov. 10
• Quick Takes: Summers Flap and Obama’s Experts, Gee Could Earn $2M, Cap on Online Bonuses, Norovirus Shuts College, Cuba Travel Limits Upheld, Peru May Sue Yale, Models of Digital Scholarship, An Expensive Garage, More Data on Young Voters, Grooming Advice  Nov. 10