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    Cuts at Saint Augustine’s, Drexel among steepest in November

    Cuts at Saint Augustine’s, Drexel among steepest in November

    Drexel officials told the Inquirer in a statementthat the reduction in head count is part of the university’s “plan for resolving an approximate 10 [percent] imbalance in its operating budget in order to ensure resilience amid financial headwinds facing the higher-education sector.”


    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.


    ‘A Lot of Anguish’: Why the MLA Put an Anti-Israel Resolution on Ice

    ‘A Lot of Anguish’: Why the MLA Put an Anti-Israel Resolution on Ice

    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.


    This week in 5 numbers: Republican lawmakers’ scrutiny grows over college protests

    This week in 5 numbers: Republican lawmakers’ scrutiny grows over college protests

    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.


    Can Professors Afford the American Dream?

    Can Professors Afford the American Dream?

    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.”


    Men and white people vote differently based on education

    Men and white people vote differently based on education

    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.