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Republicans Find a Scapegoat for the FAFSA Mess
Calls for the ouster of Richard Cordray, head of the agency that developed and launched the troubled student-aid application, are growing louder. How did he become the conservatives’ culprit of choice?
Boston U. Residence Life Workers Strike, Joining Grad Students
Boston University, three weeks into dealing with an ongoing graduate student worker strike, saw Residence Life workers join the walkout...
Pitzer College President Rejects Resolution for Expansive Israel Boycott
Pitzer College president Strom Thacker rejected an amended resolution recently adopted by students, faculty and staff that called on the...
After the FAFSA Quake, a Flood of Corrections
As delays to the FAFSA rollout piled up, so did an unusual number of errors, both on student forms and in the Education Department’s eligibility calculations.
New Presidents and Provosts: Davidson-Davie, North Carolina-Asheville, Notre Dame, Vermont State, Western Governors, Woodland CC, Youngstown State
The Reverend Robert A. Dowd, vice president and associate provost at the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana, has been...
Duke Ends Scholarship for Black Students
Duke University has ended its Reginaldo Howard Scholars program, which granted full-ride merit scholarships to a small cohort of students...
Queer-ish: Academic Minute
Today on the Academic Minute, part of Scripps College Week: Ken Gonzales-Day, professor and Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Art...
Tennessee Triples Down on Targeting ‘Divisive Concepts’
Another year, another Tennessee General Assembly bill targeting so-called “divisive concepts.” Republican lawmakers in multiple states have listed and taken...