Inside Higher Ed Matt Reed September 16, 2020 n Tuesday I sat in on a webinar hosted by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), which is our accreditor. The audience for the webinar was college presidents and provosts, so I was there as the equivalent of a provost. (Brookdale doesn’t use that title.) […]
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Real Clear Education Jason Delisle September 14, 2020 Joe Biden’s proposal to make public colleges free for families earning under $125,000 has received hardly any scrutiny. That’s surprising since it’s such a radical departure from the historical federal role in higher education in which the government subsidizes families with grants and tax credits. Up until this year, […]
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Education Dive Jeremy Bauer-Wolf September 11, 2020 Dive Brief: The University of California, Berkeley, will pay a nearly $2.4 million fine and be monitored for two years for violating the Clery Act, the federal law requiring colleges to share campus crime statistics. UC Berkeley misclassified 1,125 incidents, most of which concerned liquor, drug and weapons […]
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Career Education Review Jenny September 10, 2020 WASHINGTON, September 9, 2020 — Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today said a new Republican proposal to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic will “help Americans go safely back to school, college and child care and prepare for future pandemics.” The Delivering Immediate Relief […]
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