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2024 November


Occidental College settles OCR complaint

Occidental College settles OCR complaint

Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.


How the WWE shaped Linda McMahon

How the WWE shaped Linda McMahon

To her supporters, she is a capable corporate executive who helped lead WWE from a burgeoning regional business when her husband, Vince McMahon, purchased it from his father in 1982 for an estimated $1 million, to a global phenomenon that monopolized and reshaped the wrestling industry, which was valued at $9.3 billion last year.


U.S. cautious on India campuses as Johns Hopkins “begins talks”

U.S. cautious on India campuses as Johns Hopkins “begins talks”

“These sorts of activities allow institutions to gain experience working in India and build their local reputation, which will be helpful should they decide to move forward with establishing a full-fledged branch campus,” said Lane.


Tennessee State could be heading toward a $46M deficit

Tennessee State could be heading toward a $46M deficit

Auditors told the Board of Trustees last week that the historically Black land-grant university would have a $46 million deficit by the end of the year without financial help, NewsChannel5 reported.


Are short-term credentials really more affordable?

Are short-term credentials really more affordable?

“There’s just a lot of sub-baccalaureate and sub-associate degree credentials out there” of different lengths and costs, called by a variety of names and offered by different kinds of providers, making it “hard to decipher any sort of outcomes or similarities,” she said.


Review: Sony SRG-A40 Conference Camera Enables High-Quality Remote Lectures

Review: Sony SRG-A40 Conference Camera Enables High-Quality Remote Lectures

Working the controls that way is fairly intuitive, and you can do things such as zoom in on specific people in a large panel when the automatic functions of the camera would not know which presenter was the most important one to focus on at the time.


Trump names Linda McMahon for education secretary

Trump names Linda McMahon for education secretary

Then-President Donald Trump greets Linda McMahon, head of the Small Business Administration at the time, during an event celebrating Women's History Month, at the White House on March 29, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson via Getty Images


Cybersecurity Automation Helps Short-Staffed Higher Ed IT Departments Protect Data

Cybersecurity Automation Helps Short-Staffed Higher Ed IT Departments Protect Data

When these tools are paired with advanced machine learning algorithms and behavioral analytics, “universities can continuously monitor network traffic for anomalies, isolate compromised systems in real time and automatically apply patches to vulnerable endpoints.”


Short-term Pell pilot boosted enrollment but not earnings

Short-term Pell pilot boosted enrollment but not earnings

“The cost of expanding Pell Grant eligibility—about $1,800 per student in this study—should be considered against the evidence on the economic benefits of short and very short-term programs.”


Two institutions receive gifts worth tens of millions

Two institutions receive gifts worth tens of millions

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 USD’s Board of Trustees.


Federal judge pauses Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms

Federal judge pauses Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms

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.


Advice | How to Prepare for Job Interviews in Industry

Advice | How to Prepare for Job Interviews in Industry

As experts on graduate career counseling, we’ve been offering advice on the tandem job search — applying for both faculty and industry openings — because it’s increasingly the norm.