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President Biden said Tuesday that he was looking at options to forgive most student debt, CBS News reported, citing comments he made to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. The lawmakers encouraged a large cut in student debt. In the past, the president has said he favors eliminating $10,000 in student debt for all debtors. Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration would make a decision about canceling some student loan debt between now and the end of August, or the pause would be extended further. Ad keywords:  administrators studentaid Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/cmkBJrd

Student Defense, the Project on Predatory Student Lending and the National Consumer Law Center have filed a lawsuit against Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and the Department of Education on behalf of student loan borrowers with unresolved borrower defense to repayment claims. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Massachusetts, alleges the department has for six years ignored its responsibility to issue a decision on a group borrower-defense application submitted by the Massachusetts attorney general in May 2016 on behalf of eligible former students of the now-defunct Kaplan Career Institute. The Education Department, which has granted more borrower-defense discharges than any other administration, declined to comment on pending litigation. Ad keywords:  administrators studentaid Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  ...

Harvard University has pledged $100 million to make amends for its historical ties to slavery, the university announced Tuesday. The money will establish an endowed Legacy of Slavery Fund to research and redress Harvard’s “extensive entanglements with slavery,” President Lawrence Bacow wrote in a message to the community. The announcement came with the release of a 100-page report, more than two years in the making, by a committee of Harvard professors appointed by Bacow to expose Harvard’s links to slavery. “The truth is that slavery played a significant part in our institutional history,” Bacow wrote. “Enslaved people worked on our campus supporting our students, faculty, and staff, including several Harvard presidents. The labor of enslaved people both far and near enriched numerous donors and, ultimately, the institution.” Harvard is the latest U.S. university to publicly acknowledge and move to rectify its involvement with slavery, joining such institutions as Brown an...

Mark Emmert, who led the National Collegiate Athletic Association through a period of enormous growth and even more turmoil, will retire a year from now, he and the association’s governing board agreed Tuesday . The NCAA’s announcement made clear that it was a “mutual” decision between the NCAA’s Board of Governors and Emmert, signaling that Emmert was pushed. Emmert became the second university president to lead the association when he was selected in 2010 to succeed Myles Brand. Emmert had been president of the University of Washington and Louisiana State University before that. During Emmert’s 12-year term at the NCAA’s helm, the money coursing through big-time college athletics has exploded, and the gap between the biggest and richest sports programs and the rest has widened. The association has undergone enormous tumult in the last few years, with significant legal losses and steadily eroding support in the courts and the general public for the “amateur” athletic model that...

Science reported that New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine is considering hiring biologist Dr. David Sabatini, despite the fact that he was forced out of multiple jobs, including his professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, over sexual harassment or violating workplace polices on consensual relationships. Sabatini resigned from MIT but has denied wrongdoing, including in a lawsuit against an accuser and MIT’s Whitehead Institute. (His accuser has countersued.) “Any decision about a potential role [for Dr. Sabatini] at NYU Grossman School of Medicine would be subject to careful and extensive due diligence and consultation with a broad group of stake holders,” the school told Science . A faculty letter with dozens of signatures opposing any appointment for Dr. Sabatini says, “We are deeply concerned that recruiting an individual found guilty of having broken the policies of prestigious institutions such as MIT, the Whitehead Institute and HHMI [the H...

The American Association of University Professors for a hundred years has protected its political neutrality by not taking positions on controversial topics unrelated to academic freedom. Academics on both sides of current political debates could thus see the organization as a defender of the core principles undergirding the academy, not as an advocate for a position that would otherwise divide its membership. But the organization has recently compromised the tradition that has served it well for so many decades. Worse, the very AAUP committee that has guarded and sustained that tradition—Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure—has now taken sides on a hotly contested topic it should have scrupulously avoided: the definition of antisemitism. For more than a decade, the AAUP has had both national staff and faculty appointees with strong views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but both staff and faculty leaders have largely avoided actions or statements that aligned the organiz...

Blog:  Higher Ed Gamma Perhaps you read a recent article in the noted linguist John McWhorter’s newsletter entitled “ College Became the Default. Let’s Rethink That .”  A  genuine public intellectual , McWhorter is a progressive contrarian and an intellectual provocateur who writes for the public in ordinary language and whose opinions are utterly unpredictable. As an outpouring of  letters to the  Times  makes clear, his views do not conform to the current progressive orthodoxy that young people need four years further education post-high school.  He strongly endorses the argument made by Bard College president Leon Botstein in his 1997 collection of essays,  Jefferson’s Children , that the American system of education requires a radical overhaul. Botstein’s book made a host of provocative arguments: That high schools were “ out of sync ” with the more rapid maturation of today’s adolescents. That high school’s hothouse environmen...

Blog:  Learning Innovation At the recent XR at Michigan Summit , Coursera and the University of Michigan partnered to unveil the next stage of online learning: extended reality (XR) enhanced immersive learning experiences. As part of the program, 10 new XR courses will become available in 2023. I asked Betty Vandenbosch , Chief Content Officer at Coursera, and Lauren Atkins Budde , Director of Open Learning Initiatives at the University of Michigan, if they’d be willing to share some insights into the program, including how XR might shape the future of learning. Q1: U-M and Coursera have a long history of working together to advance online learning. What’s surprised you most about how online learning has changed in the last ten years, and what role do you see XR playing in the future? Betty: It’s amazing to think that MOOCs were largely treated as an experiment in 2012. However, thanks to our partners’ emphasis on designing high-quality learning experiences, MOOCs...

Today on the Academic Minute , part of Florida International University Week: Diana Azzam, assistant professor in the department of health sciences, discusses one factor in men’s worse survival rates from brain tumors. Learn more about the Academic Minute here . Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/Au69GcQ

ECMC Group, the student loan guarantee agency turned nonprofit education services company, has quietly announced that it would close the three remaining campuses of the former Corinthian Colleges for-profit chain it purchased in 2015. Altierus Career College, as the former Corinthian campuses are known, “will engage in an orderly closure, with campuses remaining open until all current students that are following their academic plans graduate or an acceptable completion plan is identified for remaining degree students,” ECMC said in a five-sentence notice on its website. ECMC is among the former student loan guarantors that have made the transition from for-profit companies to philanthropic (or at least quasi-philanthropic) nonprofit organizations that make grants, provide education services and sometimes invest in companies designed to help students and institutions that serve them. It focuses on career and technical education, student transfer, and other issues. ECMC made an un...

Queens University of Charlotte is investigating several anti-Semitic drawings found on the North Carolina campus, The Charlotte Observer reported . One swastika was drawn on a whiteboard in the common space of a residence hall, according to a university spokesman. Swastikas were also drawn in chalk on the doors of two students’ rooms. “These antisemitic acts are in direct violation of our Honor Code and we denounce them as they do not reflect or represent our institutional values,” the university said in a statement. “Queens University takes all acts of this nature very seriously. Our mission, vision and values include fostering knowledge and cultivating relationships among people with different world views, championing the dignity of all people, and working together to create a more equitable present and future.” The university said it has been in touch with the affected Jewish students and made additional counseling available. It has also added security officers and requested ...

The Academic Freedom Alliance on Monday expressed its “dismay” at St. Olaf College’s recent decision to end a professor’s institute directorship a year early, after the institute hosted a controversial talk by the philosopher Peter Singer. Edmund Santurri, Morrison Family Director of the Institute for Freedom and Community and professor of religion and philosophy, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the issue. But the AFA says Santurri was previously lauded by St. Olaf as an “exemplary” leader of the institute, and he was promised a teaching release and a summer stipend for his directorship, which was to last through August 2023. The alliance asked St. Olaf to pay Santurri his promised stipend funds on top of his base salary and grant his request to be appointed to the college’s Institute Advisory Board. “This sudden termination of Professor Santurri’s appointment as director sends a clear message to the campus that some exploration of ideas wil...

The University of Cincinnati is ending its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students and employees, according to the university’s website . “Beginning with the 2022 summer term, the university no longer requires, but strongly recommends faculty, staff and students receive COVID-19 vaccines,” the announcement read. The university noted that it would continue to consult with medical experts and “may change our responses as needed.” The announcement also said that members of the UC community working or interacting with people at outside sites that do have vaccine requirements—such as schools and hospitals—would still be required to comply with those. “Non-compliance may prevent one from fulfilling one’s academic and professional objectives,” it read. Is this diversity newsletter?:  Hide by line?:  Disable left side advertisement?:  Is this Career Advice newsletter?:  Trending:  Live Updates:  liveupdates0 from Insid...

Michael A. Olivas, when explaining why he switched from preparing for the priesthood to becoming a lawyer, often said, “ I was much better at afflicting the comfortable than I ever was at comforting the afflicted .” His death late last week at age 71 was a shock to everyone working at the intersection of higher education and the law, especially because many of us were shepherded there by Michael himself. While others can speak to his enormous contributions to laws supporting college access, like the top 10 percent plan in Texas ; his advocacy for undocumented immigrants, including the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the DREAM Act ; and his contributions to law school leadership itself, I will focus on what I know best: Michael’s role as a mentor. I was introduced to Michael in 2003 by Darryl Greer, my boss at the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities. He had met Michael more than 25 years earlier when Michael—then a graduate student at ...

Enjoy this inspiring conversation with GSU President M. Brian Blake, Bridget Burns from University Innovation Alliance, and Doug Lederman from Inside Higher Ed. This episode aired live on Monday, April 25.  Weekly Wisdom is made possible with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York .   Section:  University Innovation Alliance Event's date:  Monday, November 15, 2021 - 12:45pm Insider only:  from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/mg8RBUa

Blog:  University of Venus During the last two years, the academy has seen a significant exodus of faculty and staff who are moving not just to different institutions, but out of the academy altogether, driven by burnout , disillusionment , and demoralization . In fact, a recent study found that a 55% of faculty—including more than a third of tenured faculty—are considering leaving.  If you’re considering whether you, too, might want to explore options beyond the academy, this series is for you.  Drawing on my experience coaching dozens of graduate students, postdocs, staff, faculty, and higher ed leaders who have transitioned to careers beyond the academy—along with my own experience of moving to industry after a decade in faculty and staff roles—in this multi-part series I’ll share strategies for deciding when to consider career paths beyond the academy, exploring careers outside higher ed, launching a successful search, and flourishing in a career beyond th...