‘If our graduates don’t make family-sustaining wages, we’re not going to offer the program anymore,’ a Southwest Wisconsin Technical College official says. ‘Our degrees have to have value.’
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Posted inTexas
Bill allowing Texas colleges to pay their athletes gets Senate approval
Student athletes would be able to receive a slice of the billions of dollars Texas colleges generate in revenue from their sports teams.
Posted inTexas
Political appointees would have more control over Texas universities’ courses and hiring under bill approved in House
Senate Bill 37 would give more power to university regents, who are appointed by the governor, to vet and veto new curricula and administrators.
Posted inEl Paso
UTEP library’s Special Collections is a ‘treasure trove’ of history
From hard-core historians to people interested in family trees – or peccadilloes – researchers will find the mother lode in the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department at the top floor of UTEP’s University Library. The University of Texas at El Paso department houses about 800 collections that includes art, books, music, manuscripts, documents, photographs, microfilm, […]
Posted inMississippi
How Mississippi’s HBCUs are navigating Trump’s federal funding cuts
Tougaloo College and Jackson State University professors say exposure to learning opportunities and career paths for students could be lost.
Posted inChicago
Chicagoans with student debt stressed as Trump, GOP cut back relief
Biden canceled more student debt than any other president. Trump is taking things in the opposite direction.
Posted inCalifornia
Fraud pushes California’s community colleges to consider an application fee. Is it worth it?
Faced with increasing financial aid fraud, the board of California’s community colleges is considering ways to charge students an application fee and tighten its identity verification process. Students are pushing back.
Posted inPittsburgh
Pitt will have to pay athletes $20 million a year, but isn’t saying how
The NCAA is poised to agree to pay student athletes, potentially pushing Pitt’s athletics department deep into the red and raising the question: Where will the money come from?
Posted inTexas
After college students protested Israel-Hamas war, Texas Senate votes to restrict time, place and manner of future events
Sen. Brandon Creighton says the bill will prevent disruption. Critics say it walks back conservative lawmakers’ previous pledge to protect campus free speech.
Posted inOhio
Got $5? For Oberlin College students, that might get you a Picasso
Students, employees and community members can rent works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and other artists as part of a decades-long program run by the college’s Allen Art Museum.