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#gaza
fromBusiness Insider
19 hours ago

I'm an entrepreneur who never went to college and taught my kids to avoid debt. They both decided to go to college anyway.

My mom has been a salon owner in Baltimore for over 35 years. The salon was my after-school program, my social circle, and my introduction to business. I learned early that work is more than a paycheck. It is the foundation for the kind of life you want to live. My mom didn't talk about freedom in a motivational sense. She lived it. She set her own schedule and ran the business in a way that made sense for her.
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fromFortune
1 day ago

40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations-but it's become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate | Fortune

College disability accommodations have surged since the pandemic, driven by rising mental-health diagnoses, broader access to care, and debate over potential misuse.
#antisemitism
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#discrimination
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fromwww.amny.com
2 days ago

Columbia Law School unveils new library named for outstanding alum amNewYork

Columbia Law School opened the 50,000-square-foot Li Lu Law Library, funded by a $15 million donation from alumnus Li Lu, featuring a two-story reading room.
#mackenzie-scott
fromFortune
2 days ago
Fundraising

'This year, I really see education and climate': Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott's massive giving emerge with time | Fortune

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Education

MacKenzie Scott has just given away $17 million to Oklahoma's oldest public community college, where 80% of its students receive financial aid | Fortune

fromFortune
2 days ago
Fundraising

'This year, I really see education and climate': Patterns in billionaire MacKenzie Scott's massive giving emerge with time | Fortune

fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Education

MacKenzie Scott has just given away $17 million to Oklahoma's oldest public community college, where 80% of its students receive financial aid | Fortune

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fromLos Angeles Times
2 days ago

DACA was once a lifeline for undocumented youth. It's leaving the next generation behind

Frozen DACA applications and intensified enforcement leave many undocumented students excluded from education, work authorization, and future mobility.
fromNieman Lab
3 days ago

Student journalists rise to an unprecedented challenge

It's called CollegeWatch. For this job, I am reading constantly about the topic - stories we're publishing, yes, but also stories from publications big and small. What quickly struck me is the power of the work coming out of campus publications, and how little we would know about the full scale of this assault if it were not for these student journalists.
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#ai-assisted-teaching
fromNature
4 days ago
Higher education

What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Higher education

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

fromNature
4 days ago
Higher education

What would an AI university look like and how might it change education?

fromFuturism
2 weeks ago
Higher education

College Students Furious When Their Course Is Taught by AI Instead of a Professor

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fromNature
4 days ago

Will young universities set the pace in the age of AI?

Young universities face enrollment, political and financial pressures, and may become leaders by adopting AI in education or risk being distracted from survival priorities.
fromHarvard Business Review
3 days ago

Setting Goals for Your Team When the Path Isn't Clear

To be able to see students, to get to know them, to get to see how they grow and change during these four years, and then to see them have success as they launch into the world, and then to see that they reach back so quickly to give back and to see the way that our community supports our students as they are navigating, exploring their values and their purpose and what they're feeling called to do. All of that is just really rewarding.
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Public health
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

A welcome pit stop: the US university using parking lots to help unhoused students

Safe parking programs provide students experiencing homelessness essential dignity, hygiene access, and temporary stability while persistent instability harms mental health and academic progress.
#philanthropy
fromSFGATE
5 days ago
Higher education

This Calif. university is the latest to score millions from Mackenzie Scott

fromFortune
1 week ago
Fundraising

MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune

fromSFGATE
5 days ago
Higher education

This Calif. university is the latest to score millions from Mackenzie Scott

fromFortune
1 week ago
Fundraising

MacKenzie Scott is trying to close the DEI gap in higher ed, with $155 million in donations this week alone | Fortune

#religious-discrimination
fromJezebel
1 week ago
US politics

Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' After Flunking Psychology Paper in Which She Only Cites the Bible

An Oklahoma University student received a zero for a Bible-only psychology paper and filed a religious-discrimination complaint.
fromBoston.com
1 week ago
US news

College instructor put on leave over zero grade for gender essay

A University of Oklahoma student alleges religious discrimination after receiving a zero for a Bible-cited essay calling multiple genders "demonic" and appealing the grade.
fromJezebel
1 week ago
US politics

Student Cries 'Religious Discrimination' After Flunking Psychology Paper in Which She Only Cites the Bible

California
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 week ago

Some California universities seeing decline in enrollment: Here's why

San Francisco State's enrollment fell 26% since 2015 due to regional demographic decline, increased competition from UCs/Cal States, and San Francisco's high housing costs.
US politics
fromThe Mercury News
1 week ago

Vallejo mayor also a professor at Pleasant Hill's Diablo Valley College

Andrea Sorce balances duties as Vallejo mayor and DVC economics professor, using teaching to advance government transparency, accountability, and civic engagement.
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
1 week ago

Vallejo mayor also a professor at Pleasant Hill's Diablo Valley College

At 39, she divides her time between shaping young minds as an economics professor at the Pleasant Hill campus of Diablo Valley College (DVC) and steering the city of Vallejo toward transparency, accountability and trust. It has been a challenge balancing the dual roles, especially because there is a lot of work to do in Vallejo, said Sorce, who says she wishes she had 40 hours in a day.
Education
fromPeople Work
2 weeks ago

The Junior Hiring Crisis

It's not very encouraging. According to very recent research from Stanford's Digital Economy Lab, published in August of this year, companies that adopt AI at higher rates are hiring juniors 13% less. Another study from Harvard published in October of this year cites that early-career folks from 22-25 years old, in these same fields, are experiencing greater unemployment while senior hiring remains stable or even growing.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

ICE Detains Ferris State Prof., DHS Calls Him "Sex Offender"

ICE arrested Sumith Gunasekera in Detroit on Nov. 12, DHS announced in its Nov. 25 release. That's the date Ferris State "became aware of accusations regarding" Gunasekera, university spokesperson David Murray said in an emailed statement. Murray didn't answer further questions from Inside Higher Ed Monday, including whether the university performed a background check on Gunasekera before hiring him. "He has been placed on administrative leave while the university gathers more information," Murray wrote.
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fromAdvocate.com
1 week ago

Oklahoma University instructor suspended for failing student's unscientific anti-trans psychology essay

Graduate teaching assistant Mel Curth, who graded the paper, wrote that the zero was based on academic criteria, not retaliation for the student's religious views. Curth wrote that the essay "does not answer the questions for this assignment, contradicts itself, heavily uses personal ideology over empirical evidence in a scientific class, and is at times offensive." Curth also noted that portraying a marginalized group as "demonic" is "highly offensive," and urged the student to use empirical sources rather than doctrinal statements when critiquing course material.
LGBT
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Musk: AI will make skills obsolete, but college still has social value

"AI and robotics is a supersonic tsunami. This is really going to be the most radical change that we've ever seen,"
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LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
1 week ago

University punishes trans educator for "discrimination" after student calls her "demonic" - LGBTQ Nation

A transgender TA was placed on administrative leave after giving a student a zero on an essay that labeled trans people "demonic".
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Shakespeare and Company

Mark Twain advised colleges to learn less, criticizing excessive accumulation of impractical research and the burdens of classical and certain mathematical studies.
fromBoston.com
1 week ago

Babson College supports student deported to Honduras

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she tried to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas. She was sent to Honduras two days later despite a court order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States, according to her attorney. Lopez Belloza, whose family emigrated from Honduras when she was 7, is now staying with her grandparents.
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fromIntelligencer
2 weeks ago

The Trump-Administration Change That Could Cripple Nursing

As part of the funding package, the U.S. Department of Education is ending the Grad PLUS loan program, which allows prospective graduate students to borrow up to the full cost of attendance. Instead, the agency will be instituting borrowing caps, making the maximum figures dependent on whether a student is pursuing a "professional degree." Currently, the list of the graduate programs designated as professional spans a variety of fields, from medicine, dentistry, and law to more surprising inclusions like theology.
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#immigration
fromKqed
2 weeks ago
California

Misinformation Spreads as Trump Moves to Cut Aid for Some California Students | KQED

California's policy granting in-state tuition and state financial aid to some undocumented students faces a federal lawsuit alleging federal-law violations and unconstitutional benefits.
fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago
Higher education

In-state college tuition for California's undocumented students is illegal, Trump suit alleges

The federal government sued California to block in-state tuition and parts of the California Dream Act for undocumented students, alleging illegal discrimination against U.S. citizens.
fromKqed
2 weeks ago
California

Misinformation Spreads as Trump Moves to Cut Aid for Some California Students | KQED

#dei
fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

Colleges ease the dreaded admissions process as the supply of applicants declines

The college admissions process has been so notoriously stress-inducing that students and their parents plan for it for years and - if social media is any indication - seem to consider an acceptance as among the greatest moments of their lives. But getting into college is in fact becoming easier, with admissions offices trying to entice more applicants from a declining pool of 18-year-olds. They're creating one-click applications, waiving application fees, offering admission to high school seniors who haven't even applied.
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fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

Why USC students who want to be doctors and engineers are minoring in comedy

USC offers a comedy performance minor teaching stand-up, improv, magic, and practical communication and leadership skills used across careers including medicine and engineering.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

What Faith-Based Higher Ed Leadership Looks Like (opinion)

There are moments in leadership when no one is watching but everything is at stake. Not because a policy is in question or a metric is missing, but because our moral compass is being tested in the quiet. In these moments, we do not lean on politics or public opinion. We ought to lean on what we believe to be true and on moral principles that will benefit the community we serve.
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fromThe Nation
2 weeks ago

Stanford Students Sue Over Trump's Crackdown on Political Speech

In a San Jose courtroom on the morning of November 19, attorneys for The Stanford Daily and two anonymous international students argued that President Donald Trump's administration has used federal law as a weapon against political dissent. The lawsuit, filed against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, asserts that the plaintiffs' First and Fifth Amendment rights have been fundamentally violated-but that it's the statutes themselves, not just the administration enforcing them, to blame.
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#cybersecurity
fromNature
3 weeks ago
Information security

Cyberattacks' harm to universities is growing - and so are their effects on research

fromNature
3 weeks ago
Information security

Cyberattacks' harm to universities is growing - and so are their effects on research

San Francisco
fromsfist.com
3 weeks ago

Humpday Headlines: Alleged Shooter Took a Class With John Beam

Bay Area developments: a linked Laney College murder enrollment, Larry Summers' OpenAI resignation, a TPS court case, major hospital plans, and community turkey giveaway.
fromCornell Chronicle
3 weeks ago

Chief HR officer Christine Lovely departing for UCLA | Cornell Chronicle

Christine Lovely, vice president and chief human resources officer, is leaving Cornell to become the inaugural vice chancellor for campus human resources and chief people officer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lovely's last day at Cornell will be Dec. 15. Sean Moeller, associate vice president for human resources, will take over as interim vice president and chief human resources officer.
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fromHarvard Gazette
3 weeks ago

Steven Pinker wants to hear your ideas - even the bad ones - Harvard Gazette

Common knowledge—recursive mutual awareness—shapes language, currency, markets, political movements, norms, and explains campus cancel-culture dynamics.
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fromFortune
3 weeks ago

Gen Z college students have found a new cheat code to land them an AI-proof job: double majoring | Fortune

Double majoring increasingly provides skill diversification that modestly raises earnings while substantially protecting graduates from income shocks and job volatility.
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