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U.S. Balks at Proposed Sale of California Guarantor
The U.S. Education Department has told state officials in California that the federal government will terminate its agreement with EdFund...
A Bit More on 'Gainful Employment'
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Education’s proposed rules defining “gainful employment” by examining students’ ability to repay their loans have...
Protesters Question Berkeley Links to BP
The environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has revived concerns at the University of California at Berkeley over the...
Help in California for Students From Foster Care
A new California law requires public colleges and universities to let students from foster care -- who frequently have no...
Are UT Southwestern Faculty Failing to Oversee Residents?
Some University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center faculty members have been letting medical residents operate at a public hospital with...
Putting It to Provosts
CHICAGO -- Like many advocacy groups, higher education associations are notoriously self-referential (if not self-reverential). They're quick to promote the...
New Questions on Test Bias
For many years, critics of the SAT have cited a verbal question involving the word "regatta" as an example of...
Female Instructor Barred From Teaching at Muslim University Without Burqa
Students at the Calcutta campus of Aliah University, a Muslim institution, have barred a female instructor from teaching without wearing...