NYTIMES (Jesse Singal) - A Lot of the Attacks on Higher Ed Are Unfair. Not This One.
By protecting a star from plagiarism charges, a storied college undermined its values.
REDSTATE (Teri Christoph) - Major University Will Hide Grades From Freshmen to 'Curb' Mental Illness – What Could Go Wrong?
WASHINGTONPOST (Craig Whitlock, Andrew Tran) - How GI Bill veterans, trade schools extracted millions in sham-class schemes
Prosecutors went after “ghost” school operators but rarely pursued student vets who enrolled just to collect housing subsidies, a Post investigation found.
NYTIMES (Sharon Otterman) - He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.
The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.
NYTIMES (Alan Blinder) - Brown’s President Will Resign after a Tenure that Included Trump Deal
The president, Christina H. Paxson, led the campus for over a decade, but in recent years faced protests, political pressure and a shooting that killed two students.
NYTIMES (Michael C. Bender and Alan Blinder) - After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter
The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.
JUSTTHENEWS (Nicholas Ballasy) - HUD launches civil rights investigations into university housing programs over race discrimination
HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity is investigating the University of Connecticut and the University of Minnesota to determine whether their campus housing programs violate the Fair Housing Act by steering or advertising housing opportunities based on race or ethnicity.
REDSTATE (Ben Smith) - AI-Powered ‘Ghost Students’ Are Looting Federal Student Aid, the Treasury Dept. Warns Banks
DAILYCALLER (Ann Rodgers) - Brown Professor Warns AI Is Making Students Dumber After Cheating Scandal
‘We cannot choose to become idiots.’
A Brown University economics professor says a take-home exam intended to accommodate students traumatized by a campus tragedy instead exposed what he believes is one of the largest artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted cheating scandals in Ivy League history. According to Inside Higher Ed , Brown economics professor Roberto Serrano said he became convinced that widespread AI use had occurred after students in his Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory course earned unusually high scores on a take-home midterm administered during the spring semester. Serrano had converted the exam from an in-person test to a take-home assignment after the December shooting at Brown University that killed two students, hoping to reduce stress for…Open
NPR (Cory Turner) - Will the new student loan limits actually drive down tuition? Economists weigh in
The idea that there's a connection between federal student loans and what colleges charge dates back almost four decades. But it's unclear that link can lead to lower costs.
The idea that there's a connection between federal student loans and what colleges charge dates back almost four decades. But it's unclear that link can lead to lower costs.Open