The NCAA, according the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, cannot be reformed without significant changes to its operations, such as giving its leadership to outside sources. On The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Grad students are in a lot of debt. In fact, the number of grad students who are more than $100,000 in debt upon completing their degrees has risen from 6% in 2008 to 15% in 2016. On Forbes.
Included in acceptance letters are generally financial aid letters informing a student how much the college is willing to assist with tuition, but those letters are often confusing and vague. There's a reason for this. On The Atlantic.
UNC doesn't know how much it now spends on security around the Silent Sam Confederate statue, a university spokesman said. Last August, the police chief put the estimate at $621,000 annually.
Karol Markowitz says New York's plan to lower standards for the sake of diversity will hurt students more than it helps them. In USA Today.
Mizzou will lay off 30 employees and eliminate 155 vacant positions to close its budget gap. In the Missourian.
Yale University recently announced that it will no longer require students to submit the timed essay section of the SAT/ACT. Some question whether standardized tests are useful at all in predicting student success. On Education Dive.
Duke University is one of six chosen schools to pilot a new Apple feature, which will "integrate student ID cards to the Apple Wallet app." The feature will be availble this fall. In Triangle Business Journal.
President of the Southern Illinois system, Randy J. Dunn, might be on his way out the door according to a special-meeting notice issued by the University system’s Board of Trustees. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down the prohibition against sports gambling has left UNC students and faculty trying to figure out just how it will play out. On the Daily Tar Heel.