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The generations after us will look back at 2019 one day and be ashamed of our apathy. They will wonder where we lost our heart and courage as we watched children separated from their parents in the United States and detained in what some have likened to concentration camps . Or how we stood by as children as young as 19 months old died after being in U.S. border patrol custody . They’ll wonder who was even welcome in an America where the president told U.S. congresswomen, who are American citizens, that they should “go back ” to the countries from which they came. It is no wonder that so many young immigrant children, or children of immigrants, whom we are serving in our education system feel unwelcomed and scared. While Plyler v. Doe (1982) ensures that students, regardless of immigration status, have access to free K-12 public education, we have created an environment that confines these students and hampers hopes of higher education. As the director of TeenSHARP’s Delaware Goes...

It was never really a question whether busing would come up during night two of the second round of Democratic presidential debates in Detroit. Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Joe Biden stood next to each other for a redux of the confrontation they had last time they shared the debate stage together. The exchange went as expected. Biden demurred, arguing that his record was not what Harris suggested it was, and that the two had views on busing that weren’t far apart. Harris countered, saying that Biden worked with segregationists on legislation that was harmful to black children when it mattered most. After Biden and Harris were cut off by the moderator, the conversation veered away for a moment. Then, Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, spoke up, and pulled the conversation out of the weeds. “This is the fourth debate that we have had, and the second time that we have been debating what people did 50 years ago with busing, when our schools are as segregated as they were 50 ...

Human rights and the academic right. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/33268xw

The Rev. Brian Friedrich, chief executive at Concordia University, Nebraska, will lead the St. Paul institution.  from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2YzafSa

Sen. Kamala Harris announced on Friday her plan to invest $60 billion in STEM education and infrastructure at historically black colleges and universities. Its narrow focus may help some institutions more than others. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2K5Zxuv

Academe is rife with lingo. Universities are asking: How can we simplify? from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2K7WX7c

Despite concerns that the U.S. government is blocking Chinese students, a department official says visa-denial rates have been declining. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2MsRjOv

Despite concerns that the U.S. government is blocking Chinese students from studying here, a department official says visa-denial rates have been declining.    from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2K8o4iD

This webcast will address how colleges are preparing students for successful, satisfying lives through high-impact practices, helping first-gen students navigate career pressures and more. Section:  In-Person Events & Free Webcasts on Key Issues in Higher Ed Ad zone:  Booklet Image:  Registration Link:  Registration Link Event's date:  Tuesday, August 27, 2019 - 2:00pm from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/32Ztofw

"Removing Barriers to Student Success" is Inside Higher Ed 's new print-on-demand compilation. A copy of the booklet may be downloaded here, free . On Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 2 p.m. Eastern, Inside Higher Ed' s editors will conduct a free webcast on the themes of the booklet. Sign up here to register. This compilation was made possible in part by the advertising support of D2L. Image:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2GDX08B

People told you to follow your heart in picking your field of study. New data show how that advice has held true, even as there’s more pressure than ever to choose a major that would seemingly lead to a bigger practical payoff. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2LQzXf7

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The nearly monthlong drama surrounding the Alaska governor's decision to slash 41 percent from the state's allocation to the University of Alaska system has been widely portrayed as a battle between Governor Mike Dunleavy and those who support the university. But seven hours of discussion and debate by the university's Board of Regents revealed a significant chasm between the university's supporters, too. Although the divided governing board ultimately voted 8 to 3 to support President Jim Johnsen's recommendation to move toward a singly accredited university, it did so over the objections of chancellors of the university's three main campuses and many faculty and student leaders who argued instead for maintaining three separately accredited institutions. To a person, the members of the board and all those who spoke before it unequivocally believe the planned $136 million cut in state funds will damage the university. Johnsen called the reduction "tru...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A senior State Department official said Tuesday that the U.S. welcomes students from China. But Marie Royce, the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs, also said that colleges need to do a better job integrating their Chinese students and that many live in a “bubble” of Chinese Communist Party propaganda and misinformation that skews their perceptions of the U.S. And she said that the U.S. takes the threat of academic espionage seriously and will not tolerate intellectual property theft, even as she noted that only 0.0001 percent of Chinese students' visa applications are refused for this reason. “Contrary to what you might have heard from the government of China, the number of Chinese student visa applications refused has declined each of the last four years,” Royce said. It was not immediately clear whether Royce referred to a decline in the visa refusal rate or in a decline in the raw number of refusals. According to publicly ...

Borders are becoming increasingly armored as time goes on. In today's Academic Minute, part of University of Texas at El Paso Week, Stephen Coulthart examines one costly project that so far hasn’t paid benefits. Coulthart is an assistant professor of security at UTEP. A transcript of this podcast can be found here . Section:  Academic Minute File:  07-31-19 UTEP - The Perils of Border Security Technology Megaprojects.mp3 Event's date:  Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - 5:15pm School:  University of Texas at El Paso from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/335IVL1

Those of us whom they affect must find ways to soothe the uncomfortable feelings they elicit, writes Stephen J. Aguilar, who offers some suggestions for how to do so. Job Tags:  FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords:  faculty Section:  Diversity Show on Jobs site:  Image Source:  Istockphoto.com/kathryn8 Image Size:  Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2KiiQiY

Inside Higher Ed is pleased to release today our latest print-on-demand compilation, "Removing Barriers to Student Success," an exploration of what our authors would do if they could revise requirements. You may download a copy here, free . And you may sign up here for a free webcast on the themes of the booklet on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 2 p.m. Eastern. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/333wvmv

The Trump administration is seeking to review the finances of a troubled accreditor that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reinstated last year, an Education Department official said Tuesday. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, an accreditor of for-profit colleges, disclosed in June that it’s facing losses of $2.1 million this year and likely won’t be out of the red until 2023. The accreditor has lost scores of member institutions -- many of them thanks to abrupt closures -- since the Obama administration sought to pull its federal recognition in 2016. Herman Bounds, director of the Education Department’s accreditation group, said Tuesday at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity that the department had sent a letter to ACICS asking the organization to explain its finances. Simon Boehme, a member of the NACIQI board, had asked for a review of the accreditor’s financial status but withdrew a motion after the ...

Today on the Academic Minute , part of University of Texas at El Paso Week, Stephen Coulthart, assistant professor of security, examines one costly border security project that so far hasn’t paid benefits. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  University of Texas at El Paso from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/32U4vBQ

The president who resigned from Michigan State University amid a scandal over a physician's sexual abuse and who faces charges of lying during a police investigation will retire with $2.45 million in payments, the university announced Tuesday . Lou Anna K. Simon will receive three annual payments totaling that amount in addition to her retirement and other benefits, the university said. The terms of Simon's employment contract drew scrutiny because of her role in the explosive scandal surrounding Larry Nassar, the longtime Michigan State and Olympic doctor. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  Michigan State University from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/2KiiPeU

Pete Buttigieg said during the Democratic presidential primary debate Tuesday that any debt forgiveness program should start with students of for-profit colleges, which he said took advantage of veterans. "The moment I deployed, my Facebook feed started filling up with ads from these for-profit colleges," said Buttigieg, who served in Afghanistan as a U.S. Navy reservist in 2014. Buttigieg, who is mayor of South Bend, Ind., also criticized the Trump administration's efforts to roll back Obama-era regulations targeting the for-profit sector. In a plan released earlier this month, he called for canceling the student debt of borrowers who attended programs that failed the gainful-employment rule. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos officially repealed the rule this month. "On my watch, those colleges that turned the Department of Education into a predatory lender -- that’s where we'd start getting rid of loans," he said during the debate. Ad keywords:  ...

A professor of communication is suing Washburn University for allegedly forcing her to teach in a basement room with fluorescent lights, even though she has a neurological condition triggered by that kind of light, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal. The professor, Leslie Reynard, also is pursuing a separate retaliation and gender discrimination-related complaint against the university. Washburn had no immediate comment. Reynard says she suffered a transient ischemic attack last year after teaching in the room but wasn’t accommodated for her condition until weeks later, despite the fact that the university knew of her condition and had been informally accommodating it for a decade. Ad keywords:  administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  College:  Washburn University from Insid...

Asian Americans represent 5 percent of American public high school students and 22.9 percent of Harvard University’s freshman class. Last year, ACT results showed that every racial group took a dip in their average scores, except one: Asian Americans. Unsurprisingly, they also have the highest rate of participation in test-prep courses. But law professor Amy Wax reportedly thinks the United States should favor “first-world” immigrants who are mostly white over “third-world” immigrants who aren’t, because people in the first category are more likely to share our national values of individualism, hard work and the rule of law. That’s what Wax told a conference in Washington earlier this month, triggering outrage at the University of Pennsylvania -- where Wax and I both teach -- and beyond. More than 1,000 people signed petitions calling on the university to relieve her of her teaching duties or to fire her altogether. Meanwhile, the dean of Penn’s law school released a ...

After a marathon meeting, the University of Alaska’s Board of Regents authorized the university president to move ahead with consolidation plans. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2KhQwNG

Lou Anna K. Simon resigned as president in January 2018 amid the Larry Nassar scandal but remained on the faculty. She faces charges of lying to the police. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2YvT0B9

The article is a case study, some scholars say, in how the machinery of academic publishing can be sympathetic to certain types of arguments, often made by white men. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2ynQFKb

Blog:  Just Visiting When news [1] broke of a scheme hatched by north suburban Chicago parents to give up their custodial rights to their children in order to make their children eligible for need-based college aid, there was an online epidemic of  jaws   dropping . Also, some minds were  blown .  My jaw did not drop. My mind is intact. These are the parts where I am from, and I am well-familiar with the lengths to which upper-middle and upper-upper-middle class parents of the northern Chicago suburbs will go to secure advantages for their progeny.  In my day, when college costs were considerably more reasonable, the focus was on academic achievement and elite admissions, and I saw the jockeying take many different forms, including one (very capable) classmate who essentially cheated in every single high school class with their parents’ knowledge and (on occasion) willingness to provide cover in the case of them getting caught.  Sixteen ye...

As college admissions become more competitive, some families with means seem to be turning to underhanded methods of getting their kids into schools. For instance, the wealthy parents involved in the Varsity Blues admissions scandal earlier this year were charged with fraudulently boosting their children’s applications by obtaining fake athletics profiles and getting ringers to take their kids’ standardized tests, among other things. The parents at the elite D.C. private high school Sidwell Friends spread rumors about other students so their children might seem better in comparison. Now a new scheme described by ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal involves families seemingly machinating to get an unfair leg up in paying for a coveted seat at a university. Yesterday, ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal reported on the legal—though ethically dubious—practice of parents in the Chicago suburbs turning over guardianship of their teenage children, typically in their junior or sen...

Reports in ProPublica Illinois and The Wall Street Journal describe what admissions professionals say is a new loophole: Parents transfer their child’s guardianship to a friend or relative so the child doesn’t have to declare the family’s income when applying for financial aid. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2KjMO6a

Forty percent of students don’t graduate. No one is held accountable. No one is fired. That must change. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2K3w44n

Steven Leath was warned that his big changes could cause “unrest.” A year later, he was gone. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2YbBl2x

In their interviews, the women of the Class of ’68 discussed how they dealt with many of the same campus issues that the Yale women dealt with years later. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2OuZpcj

Few benchmarks for tenure are more important than getting that first book contract if you are in a book field at a research-focused institution. from The Chronicle of Higher Education https://ift.tt/2YsmWtX

Freshman GOP senator Josh Hawley has sought to make a name for himself in recent weeks by going on the attack against liberal elites. He’s gone after tech giants in public comments as well as “anti-flag” shoe brands . His most recent target is traditional higher ed. Hawley introduced two bills earlier this month aiming to shake up traditional higher ed. One would remove most eligibility standards for short-term training programs to access Pell Grants and instead assess them based on student outcomes. Another bill would put colleges on the hook for defaulted student loans. “You shouldn't have to take on a mountain of debt and get a four-year degree you don't want in order to get a good job in our state and in our country,” the Missouri Republican said in touting the bills. Neither idea is original in higher ed policy circles. There’s already bipartisan legislation backed by community colleges and business groups that would open Pell eligibility to programs as short as eig...