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Staffing Woes at the Education Department
Claude Pressnell, apparent choice as assistant secretary for postsecondary education, removes himself from consideration, further stalling efforts to fill leadership ranks at the Education Department.
New Academic Programs: Public Health, Creative Writing, Applied Health Science, English, Information Security, Counterterrorism, Data Science, Business and Sustainability, Dyslexia Education
College of Saint Rose is starting a master’s program in business analytics. Guilford College is starting an undergraduate major in...
Academic Minute: De-Extinction
Today on the Academic Minute, Joseph Bennett, assistant professor and conservation biologist at Carleton University, explores if making a real-life...
UNC Chapel Hill Honored for Commitment to Equity
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation announced Monday that its annual prize for elite colleges that promote equity is going to...
Year-Round Pell Grants Available July 1
Summer Pell Grants will be available to students beginning July 1, the Department of Education announced Monday. "This decision is...
U.S. appeals court dismisses claim by professor whose job disappeared
The University of Texas System did not wrongfully terminate a professor whose job was eliminated when the system merged two...
Analysis: Refinancing Would Help Small Number of Households
An analysis of a popular proposal allowing borrowers to refinance federal student loans finds that most of the benefits of...