HBCU Leaders Want More from Trump
While several college leaders had wanted to see an "aspirational" funding goal, they welcomed the president's focus on their institutions as a step in the right direction. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Headlines
Defending the Freedom to Learn
Thomas Lindsay comments on a recent trend: retired university administrators who are sounding the alarm about intolerance on campus. On SeeThruEdu.
The Great Divide
Jeff Selingo explains how higher education fueled working-class anger. On LinkedIn.
Ending Advocacy on Campus
UNC board members want law school’s civil rights center to be barred from lawsuits and suing the state -- which the center has done with success in the past.
A Serious Misconception
A new survey reveals that half of college students think their federal student loans will be forgiven. In the New York Post.
Optional Student Fees?
Gov. Scott Walker’s recent budget proposal would allow students to opt out of paying specific student fees. Students are divided on the idea. In the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Victory for Student Rights
Suspension to be lifted for OCC student who recorded professor's anti-Trump comments. In the LA Times.
‘Lower Ed’
A new book argues that the focus on credentials and growing inequality led to the rise in for-profit colleges. In Inside Higher Ed.
DeVos Takes On the Faculty
Professors tell students "what to say, and more ominously, what to think," new education secretary says in her first sustained criticism of higher education. In Inside Higher Ed.
Can America Survive Its Elites?
The demise of truth, and with it accountability, may well mark the end of the American experiment, leading us to ponder what comes next. In Minding the Campus