Articles tagged: "higher education"

Academic jargon is hard to understand, but one academic noted that the insider terminology does not help students progress in their fields of study.

Academics are in a panic in New Mexico as the governor vetoed funding higher education institutions to stop the legislature from raising taxes.

Common Core State Standards, a top-to-bottom federal government education curriculum, is a relative unknown among academics, college faculty and professors…

Aquinas College, run by the Dominican sisters of the Roman Catholic Church, will be scaling back its faculty and programs in order to focus on its bread-and-butter programs, such as nursing. The small Catholic college saw that by expanding its programs, faculty and residence halls, it was running a budget deficit.

Students from the Middle East and India blamed the ‘travel ban’ from the Trump administration as a deterrent to applying…

A great read by George Leef at the James G. Martin Center: The next head of OCR should be someone…

From the James Martin Center: DeVos’s department is also deeply involved in higher education, but the issues are different. What…

Virginia Foxx, North Carolina congresswoman, has criticized the Obama Department of Education for their higher education policies. Now, she’s in charge of a congressional committee overseeing the department.

From the Washington Monthly: The Department of Education recently unveiled the final regulations known as “borrower defense to repayment” in a response…

From The Hechinger Report: Even if some system offices are finally taking over functions once left to the campuses, any…

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is not a beacon of conservative politics or policies in higher education: At…

George Leef at Forbes makes the case of why the Clinton campaign is misunderstanding the issues with higher education at…