Inside Higher Ed Madeline St. Amour June 10, 2020 New research shows that boys’ poor reading skills in adolescence and social attitudes about women attending college could help explain why fewer men than women enroll in higher education. Researchers at the University of Missouri and the University of Essex in […]
MarketWatch Jillian Berman June 9, 2020 College leaders are considering many factors as they make their plans for a fall semester amid a global pandemic. Among their considerations: student and worker safety, government guidelines, finances — and the threat of lawsuits. The American Council on Education, a lobbying organization representing […]
Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami June 9, 2020 Consumer groups are expected to file a federal lawsuit today challenging U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s so-called partial relief rule, in which more students get only a part of their student debt forgiven if they have been defrauded by their institutions. The rule DeVos announced […]
Inside Higher Ed Kery Murakami June 9, 2020 A proposal expected to be ruled upon by the Education Department soon, to waive measures of institutions’ financial health for three years, would mainly help troubled for-profit colleges, according to a report released Tuesday by the progressive Center for American Progress. In […]
Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf June 5, 2020 Dive Brief: Eighteen Democratic attorneys general have sued U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over her new regulations governing how colleges should investigate and respond to sexual violence on campus. They argue the rules undermine the intent of Title IX, the federal law barring campus […]
Duane Morris LLP June 5, 2020 Alerts & Updates The Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act (PPP Flexibility Act), which changes some of the components of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), was passed by the House of Representatives on […]
Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf June 4, 2020 Dive Brief: In testimony before the Senate’s health and education committee Thursday, three college presidents outlined their plans to reopen campuses for the fall term, detailing the potentially costly precautions they would take to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The trio of […]
Education Dive Halle Busta June 4, 2020 Dive Brief: The number of colleges saying they still have space for incoming students rose slightly from May 1 to June 1, according to a list kept by the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Around 775 schools had space as of June […]
EdSurge Tony Wan June 2, 2020 The College Board has “paused” efforts to let students take the SAT at home, a plan it shared in April as an available option for students who want to take the college-admissions test but are unable to with many testing centers shuttered by the pandemic. In […]
Inside Higher Ed Emma Whitford June 4, 2020 Many college reopening plans hinge on colleges’ ability to effectively implement COVID-19 spread-prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local authorities. Without widespread testing, bringing in students from different locations to live together in close proximity could be […]