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Federal Student Loan System In Need of ‘Robust Interventions’
The Federal Student Aid ombudsman fielded nearly 90,000 complaints in 2022—more than double the previous year. Nearly two-thirds of the complaints were about issues with loans.
In Black Professor’s Firing, AAUP Finds ‘Racist Tropes’
Indiana University Northwest fired a Black professor after alleging he said something about killing white people. An AAUP report found “racist tropes of incompetent, angry and physically violent Black men in the language used to justify his dismissal.”
How Newark Sees College Aid
Parents are unaware of the help the state of New Jersey will provide.
More Universities Drop ‘U.S. News’ Medical School Rankings
Plus the law school rankings gain a new critic: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The Week in Admissions News
Florida vs. AP in African American studies; backup plans on loan forgiveness; physical education requirements in decline; abortions on campus.
Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium
This month’s episode of the Pulse podcast features an interview with Guillermo Elizondo of Territorium. In a conversation with Rodney...
More Quit ‘U.S. News’ Rankings of Medical, Law Schools
More medical and law schools have announced that they are leaving the U.S. News & World Report rankings of those...
The Puertoricanization of U.S. Higher Ed
Should Spanish be a domestic language in higher education? In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez’s Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera...