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White House plan to merge two cabinet departments, likely a political nonstarter, renews debate over how best to rationalize government role in educating and training Americans.
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Student Aid and Loans
Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students' backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.
Diversity
UCLA's mobile app aims to tackle campus climate issues by reaching students through their smartphones.
Partnerships With Nonprofit Colleges
Buyer commits to keeping Westminster on its Princeton campus for 10 years and maintaining current academics for five, but opponents of the deal are unimpressed.
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The Presidential Race, Books and Publishing
The Hunger Project
Scott McLemee reviews Alex de Waal's Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.
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The Growing Role of Mergers in Higher Ed
Inside Higher Ed's new special report on mergers and consolidations is a must read for anyone responsible for leading a campus in the future. The study contains journalistic analysis, data and practical guidance for college leaders, and is available for purchase here.
Career Advice
In environmental scholarship, multiple forms of exclusion -- of people of color generally and women of color specifically -- require multifaceted and often simultaneous strategies, argues Danielle M. Purifoy.
Blogs
Technology and Learning
June 21, 2018
Narrow and deep, or broad and shallow?
Library Babel Fish
June 21, 2018
Libraries have had a long time to develop a set of core values. What if those were applied to our broader information environment?
The World View
June 20, 2018
In order for universities to effectively contribute to social and regional development, it is crucial that they seek new ideas and good practices, and be open to reviewing and changing their models according to the needs of society.
Just Visiting
June 20, 2018
For many of us, it was never alive in the first place, but the values tenure is meant to promote can and must endure.
Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education
June 19, 2018
What higher ed can learn from premium brands about gimmicks.
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