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Amazon moves deeper into offering postsecondary credentials, following Google and other big employers, but largely bypasses traditional colleges with the expanded training options.
Is Amazon Training Its Workers or Creating a College Alternative?
The retailer is pouring $700 million into worker training -- mostly through its own programs. We asked some experts on postsecondary education and training to assess whether Amazon's initiative is threat or boon to higher education.
Southern Cal's Investigation Into Admissions Fraud
The University of Southern California has been investigating allegations about the admissions of 33 students, more by far than any...
Minnesota Instructors File for Over $100,000 in Lost Wages
Instructors at two-year public universities in Minnesota have filed for more than $100,000 in lost wages through a settlement agreement...
Senators Push Alternative to Student Loans
Lawmakers argue bipartisan bill would spur growth of income-share agreements by clarifying consumer protections. Skeptics say the agreements offer students a different kind of debt.
College Settles in Professor's Retaliation Case
Inver Hills Community College in Minnesota has settled for $82,500, plus a year’s salary and a lifetime employment ban with...
French-Iranian Academic Arrested in Iran
An anthropologist at Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po University with dual French and Iranian nationality has been arrested and denied contact...
Police: American Scientist was Raped, Killed in Crete
A man has confessed to abducting, raping and killing an American scientist who was in Crete for an academic conference...