…according to TICAS, 17 percent of community college students borrowed.) “For decades, Pell grants have helped financially challenged students attend college,” Jeff Lowrance, a public relations officer at Central Piedmont,…
…because he needs the meager additional income from his adjunct classes, but nevertheless doubts that the extra education his students get justifies paying them more. Will a police officer be…
…of the best contracts.” Gwendolyn Bradley, American Association of University Professors’ senior program officer, said as colleges and universities pursue cheaper, easier hiring methods, adjuncts, and contingent faculty struggle to…
…if we worried less about the minutiae and more about programs and services that have a chance of changing student behavior. I would rather have a police officer doing an…
…allocated to the Department of Public Instruction. During Wednesday’s budget presentation, State Budget Officer David McCoy said Easley’s budget proposal aimed to increase funding for education initiatives while also maintaining…
…ensuring student-population diversity in the wake of the Supreme Court decision. As Forbes put it in a recent article, “Wake Forest, this year, has allowed only first-generation students, whose parents…
…continue to discriminate by race. He ended up essentially saying that the UC could discriminate all it wants as long as (1) it’s doing so for the sake of diversity,…
…take at least one “Race & Diversity” course. Across American higher education, there is a stupendous fixation on race and diversity and Temple wants to make certain that no student…
…attorneys to identify unconstitutional policies in NC State’s handbooks and regulations. Taylor and Goodwin are both members of Heterodox Academy, a non-partisan association of academics committed to viewpoint diversity and…
…challenge, have one’s own convictions strengthened. Frequently, one learned the most from those who held contrary views. But, in all cases, there seemed to be a welcoming of a diversity…