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House Bill Endangers Student Loan Forgiveness, Benefits For-Profit Colleges

08 Dec 2017

House Republicans this December introduced a bill to reauthorize the 1965 Higher Education Act. The draft has many universities and education advocates...

Net Neutrality Repeal Puts Research and Intellectual Freedom at Risk

01 Dec 2017

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and former Verizon attorney Ajit Pai announced on Tuesday that the agency would vote...

Defending Tenure and Academic Freedom in Wisconsin

16 Nov 2017

To maintain excellence in teaching and produce rigorous independent research, American colleges and universities have relied on policies that protect tenured faculty...

Get Involved: DACA Decision Puts 800,000 Students At Risk

19 Oct 2017

Last month President Trump put the futures of nearly 800,000 undocumented immigrants living in the United States at risk. Brought to the...

Title IX Rollback: What Colleges Can Do

16 Oct 2017

In September, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced a new sweeping policy that would roll back campus sexual assault protections issued under...

Protecting Artists, Protecting Books: The National Coalition Against Censorship

06 Oct 2017

From helping artists protect their work to defending librarians who resist requests to ban books, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) fights...

Inadequate Language Education Could Put the United States at a Global Disadvantage

02 Oct 2017

A recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has found that the United States could be critically hindered by...

Against Guns on Campus

21 Sep 2017

As of May 2017, ten states permit concealed campus carry, or the possession of concealed firearms on college and university campuses. Many...

Fighting for Net Neutrality: New Threats to Internet Freedom

20 Aug 2017

In May 2017, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Ajit Pai announced the FCC’s plan to roll back protections for Internet freedoms, or...

Protecting Faculty Speech after Garcetti v. Ceballos

19 Aug 2017

In the course of a week, a public university professor might write a proposal for flexible work hours, sign a petition supporting...

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Harvard University’s Use of Affirmative Action Upheld

Judge says admissions policy helped achieve a level of diversity that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.

Gavin Newsom Passes Bill to Compensate College Athletes

College athletes in California will be able to profit from the use of their personal brand through endorsement deals.

Rethinking Vocational Education

09 Sep 2019

It’s no secret: even as college enrollment rates are climbing, the American public is growing increasingly disillusioned with higher education’s rising costs and dubious returns on investment. Yet in an ever more interconnected world, the need to become a globally competitive, highly credentialed worker often eclipses individual desires to pursue alternative paths. One such alternative...

Getting the Most out of Study Abroad

28 Aug 2019

Study abroad is an incredible growth opportunity. Living in a different part of the world allows you not only to discover a new place but also to build cultural understanding, establish new connections, advance profoundly in language and communication ability (especially if that part of the world speaks a language other than English), and acquire...