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December 10, 2020
While most institutions are staying the course with what they did in the fall, some that played this semester safe are planning to expand in-person options for students in the spring.

December 10, 2020
Student loan servicers say a funding cut by the Education Department forced them to reduce staff. Now they're about to get flooded by calls from borrowers.

December 10, 2020
The bankruptcy case began in 2014 after Anthem parent FCC Holdings Inc. was accused of predrawing federal financial aid dollars based on unsubstantiated enrollment projections.

December 10, 2020
The pandemic is widening equity gaps as more low-income students and students of color leave higher ed.

December 10, 2020
New athletics programs are an effort to draw students who wouldn’t have otherwise considered attending Amarillo College in Texas.

December 10, 2020
Catholic University has launched a certificate in child protection and safe environments. Centre College has created a major in business.

December 9, 2020
A Black professor at Calvin University says colleagues discriminated against her in denying tenure. University says its processes produced “just results.”

December 9, 2020
The NSF’s new data on Ph.D.s earned in 2019 include some bright spots, including gains for underrepresented minority groups. But COVID-19 threatens to wreak havoc on soon-to-be and recent Ph.D.s for years to come, experts say.

December 9, 2020
A new Department of Education hotline for reporting free speech violations on college campuses is under fire by higher education advocates who say it is unnecessary and lacks legal authority.

December 9, 2020
Academic library survey reveals widespread budget cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic and concern about long-term financial recovery.

December 9, 2020
Kumud Acharya, interim president and research professor at the Desert Research Institute, in Nevada, has been appointed as president on a permanent basis. Ronald Berry, dean of the College of Business and Social Sciences at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, has been promoted to president there.

December 8, 2020
Some students and staff at North Carolina State University are dissatisfied with officials' response to allegations that an IT staff member, who they fear had access to the personal information of students and employees, is part of a hate group.

December 8, 2020
Dr. Rochelle Walensky has written about the importance of frequent COVID testing of students and has been involved in discussions about how the pandemic has changed campus life.

December 8, 2020
A proposed free tuition scholarship for New Mexico went through several changes in the Legislature. Experts say some of the changes are good, but others leave some students behind.

December 8, 2020
A large number of recently launched degree programs fail to graduate many students. Is poor planning to blame?

December 8, 2020
Truman State University

December 7, 2020
Students at the University of Dallas proposed a club focused on racial justice. Some students and faculty members argued the club would be divisive.

December 7, 2020
U of Vermont says announced cuts to the liberal arts are happening. The faculty says otherwise. The bigger story is one of how universities are seizing on COVID-19 to push through long-desired curricular and staffing reforms.

December 7, 2020
House and Senate negotiators are close to a deal to simplify FAFSA forms, a major priority for Senator Lamar Alexander before he retires.

December 7, 2020
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's extension of a pause on repaying student loans for another month is welcome news for borrowers, but it could create a mess for Joe Biden.

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