The Department of Education proposed that they "will select one servicing company to collect all student debts." Jenna A. Robinson says that this system "makes things a lot easier to keep track of as a borrower." In the Daily Tar Heel.
"The number of bachelor's degrees in the humanities conferred in 2015 -- 212,512 -- was down 5 percent from the year before and nearly 10 percent from 2012, the high point for such degrees," reports Scott Jaschik. On Inside Higher Ed.
A professor at Fresno State University, while removing chalked pro-life messages on a sidewalk, said that “college campuses are not free-speech areas.” In National Review.
A former UNC athlete, Victoria Jackson, says that the "amount of time and resources UNC has exhausted to fight the idea that systemic academic fraud existed is frustrating and angering." In the News and Observer.
Over 4,000 scholars signed a "statement of solidarity" for a Princeton professor who received threats after "after a clip of her speaking at Hampshire College’s commencement was posted by Fox News." In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Preston Cooper argues that President Trump's proposal to eliminate federal subsidized loans is a welcome development. On American Enterprise Institute.
"The UNC Board of Governors has appointed four new members and reappointed four others to the governing boards of N.C. A&T and UNCG," reports John Newsom.
In News and Record.
Jonathan Haidt argues that "Whatever your politics, you are eventually going to say or do something that will be interpreted incorrectly and ungenerously.
Your intentions don’t matter." On Heterodox Academy.
Jason Delisle, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, argues against the claim that state budget cuts have caused the rise in tuition.
In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The new chancellor at the University of Missouri calls for the protection of "diversity of thought." On the College Fix.