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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.
“College campuses are the easiest way to completely run up our numbers with young voters and ensure they’re voting for Kamala Harris, Ruben Gallego [Republican Kari Lake’s Senate opponent] and Democrats all the way down the ballot, including judges, school board members, state legislators and propositions.”
“Illinois can offer assistance to young, aspiring teachers, but not when they exclude a significant number of applicants based on their skin color,” said Pacific Legal's attorney Erin Wilcox in a statement on Tuesday.
The Metropolitan College of New York is planning to sell some of its Manhattan campus as part of an agreement struck with bondholders that will let the institution delay a $1.7 million bond payment due in November, according to a regulatory filing last week.
Regents Rob Schafer and Jim Scheer, both Republicans, donated money for commercials reportedly produced by the Nebraska Family Alliance, a group that opposes abortion rights.
The list of ways next week’s presidential election could affect higher education is long, with Trump and Harris administrations likely to differ significantly on issues such as student loans, accreditation, diversity and Title IX, to name just a few.
One pro-Israel trustee, Joseph Edelman, resigned from the corporation before the vote, saying the fact that the university would even consider divestment was “morally reprehensible.”
At its heart, the zombie scam is an impersonation scheme, and that kind of manipulation takes place all the time in higher education, with bad actors bobbing for apples among current students, faculty and staff.
Similar to many first-year seminars, each course is co-led by a faculty instructor, staff member and peer Chicago Quarter Mentor.
Sara Feldman, a Harvard preceptor who teaches Yiddish, described the policy as “cruel, destructive and frankly ridiculous.” She said her position “has been the joy of my life, and, at the same time, I’m limited in what I can do because I don’t have the opportunity to build past eight years.”
While the university’s supercomputing center allows in-house AI development, private sector companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP are integrating GenAI and other learning automation functionality into their software platforms.
VanDerziel worries about this, too, saying that “higher ed needs to help students with these life skills and provide services that will set them up for future success.” But he says that graduates are taking job security and well-being, including mental health, into account choosing where to work, according to NACE research.