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Health Care Home Stretch
With young adults still under-represented under Obamacare, advocates and opponents make a final push to reach students before 2014 open enrollment closes.
A Rape Response Gone Wrong
After a student is sexually assaulted during a semester in Costa Rica, the faculty members who assisted her lose their jobs, the study abroad provider shuts its doors, and the student says the wrong people have been punished. What happened?
(More) Clarity on Adjunct Hours
Final IRS rules on employers' responsibility for health insurance requires colleges to credit adjuncts with 2.25 hours of work for each hour they teach; rules don't exempt student employees.
Cutting Ties
The study abroad provider Living Routes will close its doors after the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, citing health and safety concerns, suspends its affiliation agreement with the organization.
More Dining, Less Dozing (in Class)
At Lynn University, one of the first small colleges to offer a 24-hour cafeteria, students are more nourished and classes are more flexible.
Chipping Away at FERPA?
Proposed legislation could loosen restrictions on parental notification regarding students in mental health crises, but some worry about the privacy rights of students.
Who Protects the Suicidal?
Amid persisting confusion about when colleges can involuntarily remove a self-threatening student, Education Department again signals it's not permissible -- in an investigation that ends in a student's suicide.
'Party School'
New book details campus and community hazards of thriving party school culture, and complacency of administrators who fail to address it.