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American Public Education Acquires Rasmussen
American Public University System’s parent company plans to acquire Rasmussen University, it announced Wednesday, casting the tie-up between for-profit institutions...
Fitch: Negative Pressures Continue Into 2021 for Higher Ed
Fitch Ratings expects any changes to the higher education debt it rates to be predominantly negative into 2021 as the...
Academic Minute: Intercorporeality
Today on the Academic Minute, Robin Zebrowski, associate professor of cognitive science at Beloit College, examines why many of us...
Blaming the Messenger
The editor of a student newspaper is facing sanction by the institution's president for reporting considered routine journalistic practice. Free press advocates call it an "egregious" violation of the First Amendment.
Newly Tenured… at Howard, UMass
Howard University Muneer Abbas, medicine Ofosuwa Abiola, arts and sciences Matthew Bruckner, law Niambi Carter, arts and sciences Gerald Daniels...
Groups Ask DeVos to Extend Moratorium on Making Student Loan Payments
Seventy-seven advocacy groups wrote Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday asking her to extend the moratorium on borrowers having to...
COVID-19 Roundup: 3 Colleges to Finish Fall Term Virtually
Private colleges in Florida, New York and Minnesota end in-person instruction for the semester. A Big Ten football game is canceled, as are spring sports seasons at two colleges.
Chief Health Officers Draw Attention
Chief health officers can help craft and lend credibility to colleges' pandemic response, but they don't come cheaply.