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Program Launch: College for Adult Learners and Continuing Education
Mississippi State University opened a college focused on nontraditional students, establishing new policies and practices with adult learners’ perspectives at the forefront of degrees and programs.
Hope College Bets on Tuition-Free Program
Hope College lets a small group of students attend for free and asks them to donate money to the institution after they graduate. An effort to raise $1 billion to expand the pilot program campuswide is going slowly.
What the Supreme Court Rejection of Affirmative Action Means
Justices deem admissions programs at both Harvard and UNC Chapel Hill to be unconstitutional. But decision did say applicants can write about their experiences with racism, if colleges follow the rules.
Professor and 2 Students Stabbed in Gender Issues Class at Canadian University
The ChatGPT Commencement Address
Wells College president Jonathan Gibralter is among the higher ed leaders who used ChatGPT to craft a graduation speech this year. But the administrative potential of such tools remains largely untapped.
Student Mental Health and Pressure to Do Well
Respondents to the Student Voice survey on health and wellness feel pressure to do well at different rates based on mental health, with students who describe their mental health as poor feeling the most pressure. What’s going on and how can higher ed help?
Plain Speaking or Rude? Fight Over ‘Disparaging’ Psychiatry Paper
British scholars differ on study on the effectiveness of antidepressants.
Are We Losing the ‘Public’ in Public Higher Ed?
The University of Idaho’s plan to buy the University of Phoenix is a symptom of public universities operating more like for-profits, Neal Hutchens and Frank Fernandez write.