Jamaal Abdul-AlimStudentsAdvocate Seeks Greater Student Voice in GovernanceRini Sampath, policy director at the National Campus Leadership Council, said that students should have a stronger voice in decisions that affect the colleges and universities they attend.June 27, 2017StudentsIncoming Federal Student Aid Boss ‘Could Be Great, Could Be Terrible’The private student loan company executive selected to head the Federal Student Aid agency (FSA) is affiliated with a company that a federal judge recently described as “very aggressive” about fighting efforts to discharge student loans, court records obtained by Diverse show.June 21, 2017StudentsChicago Mayor: K-12 Education Model OutdatedArguing that the K-12 education model of the 20th century is outdated, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday he believes it’s time to expand the public school system into a pre-kindergarten to college model.June 20, 2017StudentsDeVos Plans to Name Financial Services Exec as Student Aid BossU.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Tuesday she plans to appoint Dr. Arthur Wayne Johnson — a longtime financial services industry executive who recently wrote a dissertation on private student loan debt — as chief operating officer of Federal Student Aid, or FSA. “Wayne is the right person to modernize FSA for the 21st […]June 20, 2017StudentsCivil Rights Advocates: Scaling Back Higher Ed Investigations ‘an Injustice’A U.S. Department of Education memo that suggests a more narrow approach to civil rights investigations is being blasted by civil rights advocates as a “retreat” from the protection of students against acts of discrimination.June 19, 2017StudentsScholars: DACA Reprieve No Reason for Dreamers to RelaxEven though the Trump Administration gave Dreamers a bit of a reprieve last week through its continuance of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, scholars say Dreamers still shouldn’t get too comfortable.June 18, 2017StudentsTrump Signs Executive Order to Increase ApprenticeshipsPresident Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Thursday that calls for the expansion of apprenticeships and more support for colleges and universities that infuse apprenticeships into their coursework.June 15, 2017StudentsAdvocacy Groups Pan DeVos Rollback of For-profit College RegulationsSeveral advocacy groups on Wednesday assailed a U.S. Department of Education plan to roll back a pair of Obama administration regulations meant to protect students from shady colleges that leave students saddled with debt and little to nothing to show for it.June 14, 2017StudentsNew Chicago High School Graduation Policy Gets Mixed ReviewsIn a policy change being referred to as everything from “forward thinking” to “remarkably silly,” high school seniors in Chicago will not be able to graduate unless they present “evidence of a postsecondary plan.”June 13, 2017StudentsIn Maryland Desegregation Case, Black Colleges Seek Protected ‘Academic Niches’Historically Black colleges in Maryland should have the right to offer unique, high-demand courses that cannot be duplicated at nearby traditionally White colleges, lawyers argued Thursday in the closing remarks of the remedy phase of a desegregation case.June 8, 2017Previous PagePage 9 of 80Next Page
