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What Trump’s victory means for higher ed

What Trump’s victory means for higher ed

Former U.S. president Donald Trump and other Republicans have said that they will go after an individual colleges’ accreditation status over antisemitism and civil rights violations. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images After a divisive and historic election, Donald...

Four ways colleges can support second-year students

Four ways colleges can support second-year students

Higher education experts considered the factors that impact student retention and success in their second year and beyond during a workshop at the Student Success US conference, hosted by Inside Higher Ed and Times Higher Education. FatCamera/E+/Getty Images...

Arizona budget woes still loom large one year later

Last fall the University of Arizona made a stunning announcement: Officials had miscalculated cash on hand by millions of dollars due to a flawed revenue-projection model and other missteps. Initially, they believed that Arizona had made a $240 million mistake...

For-profit colleges lose appeal to stop debt relief settlement

For-profit colleges lose appeal to stop debt relief settlement

A group of for-profit colleges that challenged a legal settlement that canceled $6 billion in student loans lost its appeal to stop that agreement from taking effect. A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday...

MLA leaders won’t let members vote on pro-boycott resolution

In the 2010s, a handful of U.S.-based scholarly associations endorsed boycotting Israeli academic institutions. But not the Modern Language Association, the largest scholarly organization for the humanities. At its annual convention in 2017, the MLA Delegate...

Scenes from a long day of waiting and voting on campus

Scenes from a long day of waiting and voting on campus

(Updated at 8 a.m., Nov. 6) President Donald Trump is returning to the White House. What role college students played in that result is still unclear, but they appeared to turn out in large numbers in key swing states Tuesday. At the nine campuses in four...

Howard U celebrates Harris on a tough night

Howard U celebrates Harris on a tough night

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Kamala Harris’s election night watch party at Howard University kicked off with a boisterous sense of celebration and optimism. It ended with a pensive, tired crowd whose dreams of putting an HBCU alum, and the first woman, in the Oval Office...

Pepperdine students, facilities staff share language learning

Pepperdine students, facilities staff share language learning

Students in Spanish 251 at Pepperdine University complete a language exchange with Spanish-speaking facilities staff to build relationships and improve conversational skills. Marilyn Koziatek/Pepperdine University For college students learning a new language,...

Six ways to engage first-gen college students on campus

Six ways to engage first-gen college students on campus

Higher ed can support first-generation students with interest in on-campus co-curricular activities by raising awareness of opportunities and considering the need for flexibility in format and time of day. ferrantraite/E+/Getty Images Engagement in collegiate...

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