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Alternative System for Registered Apprenticeships
A new executive order from the White House seeks to expand apprenticeships and open the door to a larger role for industry groups and alternative education providers.
Manhattan College Adjuncts Form Union
Six years after adjuncts at Manhattan College voted to form a union, a regional office of the National Labor Relations...
Not Looking for Patterns
To distress of advocates, Education Department tells civil rights investigators to focus on individual complaints -- and not automatically go beyond them -- in looking for history of discrimination at institutions.
Bio Prospecting
We’ve all heard of gold rush prospectors, but how about bio prospectors? In today's Academic Minute, Jeffrey Gardner of the...
For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT?
MIT students reported that taking course online -- instead of same course on campus -- was less stressful than their in-person classes.
MLA Votes to ‘Refrain’ From Backing Israel Boycott
Move -- by 2-to-1 margin -- follows several years of heated debates at association’s annual meetings.
Reset of Rules Aimed at For-Profits Begins
Trump administration will suspend borrower defense and renegotiate gainful employment, two Obama administration rules aimed at reining in for-profit colleges. Moves draw rebukes from Democrats and student advocates.
Another Women's College Will Admit Men
The University of Saint Joseph will admit full-time undergraduate men starting in the fall of 2018 following a decision by...