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.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
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.
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
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.”
“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.”
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.
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, we’ve been offering advice on the tandem job search — applying for both faculty and industry openings — because it’s increasingly the norm.
The Modern Language Association’s refusal to allow a boycott, divest, and sanctions resolution to be debated by its members has caused a stir within the group — 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, “not 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 can’t afford to exist.”
Over all, college graduates—which, in the exit polls conducted by Edison Research in collaboration with the National Election Pool, means individuals with a bachelor’s or advanced degree—made 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 university’s admissions requirements.
A majority of the three-judge panel supported a lower court’s ruling that the colleges did not have a “significantly protectable interest” 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 institutions’ 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.
That username and password are attached to some internal identifier, and that’s linked — directly or indirectly — to the entire spectrum of information that the university has about the person.
As higher education institutions continue to discover the benefits of hosting data in the cloud, these environments are becoming increasingly complex.
The vice president frequently refers to the immigration system as “broken” and told the Democratic National Convention in August that “we can create an earned pathway to citizenship and secure our border.” She’s also championed DACA in the past.
The academy’s talent pipeline begins with three Lincoln Tech recruiters working on Johnson Controls’ behalf to identify and build relationships with students at the technical college’s 14 — soon to be 18 — training campuses, Feilen said in an interview.
And once colleges are aware of the problem, the process of closely scrutinizing applications and monitoring students’ behavior once enrolled can cost an enormous amount of time and effort for admissions officials, faculty members, IT teams and others.
As of Oct. 31, Webster continued to highlight its physical offerings, which combined with its online coursework makes the university “uniquely positioned to serve the educational needs of active-duty military.”
Our client, Jaime Maldonado, remembers nearly ten years ago when Harris, then her state's attorney general, announced findings of significant misconduct against thenow-defunct Corinthian Colleges.
Some of that was out of necessity, because there is no in-person interaction with students at WGU, but some was by design as the university’s early leaders took a technology-forward approach.
“The initiative will deepen the CSU’s relationship and alignment with industry partners and benefit California’s workforce by strengthening the pipeline of career-ready graduates to fill critical positions in growing fields,” according to documents from a previous board meeting.
“For trained historians, the implications of such changes are far-reaching and include: the threat of redundancy; reduced scope for innovative teaching and research; greater inequality between institutions; and a diminishing of history’s influence and contribution beyond the university sector,” warns the report, which adds that students, too, will find their opportunities more limited.
They based a college’s affordability on whether the average in-state students’ federal financial aid awards, family contributions and 12 weeks of full-time minimum wage work could cover the institution’s total price, plus $300 in emergency expenses.
