Estimates are that it would cost $60 million a year and the Cordray campaign has not said where the money will come from, but they argue it will be a valuable investment in the future. On the Columbus Dispatch.
One-third of law professors filed a brief in support of a lawsuit demanding due process protections in sexual harassment cases. On the Federalist.
With their highly selective (and secretive) admissions process, the Department of Justice is taking interest in these subjective decisions. On The Atlantic.
An anonymous faculty group is criticizing the university for interviewing Terrell Strayhorn even though Strayhorn lost a directorship and professor job at Ohio State for neglecting his professional duties. On Inside Higher Ed.
Data and arguments are not pre-ordained in higher ed by ideology so much as it determines what to study and research. On Marginal Revolution.
A recent meeting of the American College Personnel Association shows a wedge of higher ed obsessed with enforcing a certain brand of politics rather than keeping costs low and helping students graduate. On the Federalist.
A Louisiana scholarship program that started to help low-income minority students have access to college has been expanded and diluted to be unrecognizable. On the Hechinger Report.
Colleges talk about how technology improves the classroom and aids students, but rarely do administrators address the location tracking, monitoring, and use of student labor that makes ed tech possible. On the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Though many universities had all-time-low acceptance rates this year, Duke jumped ahead of Penn and has a lower rate than Georgetown, Cornell, and Dartmouth. On the Duke Chronicle.
The University of Oklahoma constructed a humanities course as deliberately difficult and intensive—and students flocked to it. On the Chronicle of Higher Education.