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âThe cost of expanding Pell Grant eligibilityâabout $1,800 per student in this studyâshould be considered against the evidence on the economic benefits of short and very short-term programs.â
The University of San Diego, a private, Catholic institution in California, also received the largest pledge in its history last weekend: $75 million from Darlene Marcos Shiley, a philanthropist and chair emerita of USDâs Board of Trustees.
The Tuesday court order follows another issued in July requiring state officials to take a temporary step back from rolling out the law in preparation for its Jan. 1, 2025, implementation date.
As experts on graduate career counseling, weâve been offering advice on the tandem job search â applying for both faculty and industry openings â because itâs increasingly the norm.
The Modern Language Associationâs refusal to allow a boycott, divest, and sanctions resolution to be debated by its members has caused a stir within the group â and demonstrated the chilling influence of anti-BDS laws nationwide.
From a scathing new report lambasting colleges for their response to campus protests related to the Israel-Hamas war to one institution eliminating its military base locations, here are the top-line figures from some of our biggest stories of the week.
Yet, ânot having enough money to just live on, to pay for housing and food, becomes such a great stress that we constantly are hearing stories of academics who leave jobs they love because they simply canât afford to exist.â
Over all, college graduatesâwhich, in the exit polls conducted by Edison Research in collaboration with the National Election Pool, means individuals with a bachelorâs or advanced degreeâmade up 43 percent of the electorate this year.
Late last month, Cal State East Bay said it would send letters to high school seniors in two K-12 districts, San Leandro and Hayward Unified, informing them that they will be guaranteed acceptance if they meet the universityâs admissions requirements.
A majority of the three-judge panel supported a lower courtâs ruling that the colleges did not have a âsignificantly protectable interestâ and, as parties not participating in the settlement to the long-running Sweet v. Cardona lawsuit, lacked a particular form of legal standing needed to challenge it.
The idea behind personhood credentials is to solve these problems by creating something to prove that the online user is a unique human, not AI, and not on multiple accounts in the same platform.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman wrote Monday that the groups are "likely to succeed" at proving the institutionsâ executive order-informed policies chilled free speech and violated the First Amendment.But he dismissed the claims against some of the defendants, including the governor.