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Lawmakers Eye Endowment Tax Status
The House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee hearing Tuesday was nominally about the tax-exempt status of college endowments. But much of the discussion focused on college affordability -- a broader issue clearly on the minds of both Republicans and Democrats on the panel. It’s was unclear what that might mean in terms of a legislative response from the Ways and Means Committee, which deals with taxation issues.
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The Anxiety Is Real: College Costs Rise More, Relative to Income, for the Middle Class
Being an economist and college president, trends related to the affordability of higher education were never far from top of mind. As I depart my presidency and a new group of freshmen begins to arrive on America’s campuses, an affordability trend remains concerning: the growing, understandable anxiety of the middle class. Those in the middle haven’t been imagining their pain.
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Audio: Instagram’s Giving You a New Filter. To Block Abuse
Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on Instagram’s “keyword moderation tool” as a new way for the social media platform to police its users.
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Colleges Embrace Streetwise Tactics to Prevent Substance-abuse Deaths
When Reed College students obtain an illicit drug, a campus group will lend them a chemical testing kit designed to detect dangerous adulterants in whatever they are about to consume. The private college, while strictly banning illegal drug use, nonetheless tolerates student-to-student distribution of the kits as a way to reduce the likelihood of students inadvertently poisoning themselves. "Anything students are going to do to help keep themselves safer, and reduce harm, is a good thing," says Kevin T. Myers, a Reed spokesman.
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Penn Surgeons: Hep C Drugs Make More Kidneys Safe for Transplant
David Greenberg and Peter Reese of the Perelman School of Medicine are highlighted for conducting a pilot study of patients receiving a new Hepatitis C drug.
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2017 US News College Rankings: Do Colleges Still Care?
On Tuesday, US News and World Report released its 2017 Best Colleges Rankings. The report – now in its 32nd year – sorts more than 1,800 US schools into categories, then rates them on academic quality. Over the years, the rankings have come under fire from many directions. Some colleges have refused to share data with US News. The White House also expressed concern about the rankings: In 2013, President Obama announced that the government would release its own ratings. (The plan was abandoned in 2015, amid heavy criticism by college and university presidents.
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U.S. News College Rankings: Princeton, Williams and UC-Berkeley at the Top, Again
Students would probably offer a multitude of answers if asked to name the best college in America. But U.S. News & World Report has delivered the same verdict for a string of Septembers. Princeton, the magazine just declared, is the top national university for the sixth straight year, Williams College the top liberal arts college for the 14th consecutive year, and the University of California at Berkeley the top public university for the 19th year in a row. The U.S.
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No Thanks, Dad, I’m OK
Dean Eric Furda of Admissions writes about the transition that occurs for students and their parents when a new school year begins.
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Ohio U. Will Remove Roger Ailes’s Name from a Newsroom
Roger Ailes’s name will be removed from a television-station newsroom at Ohio University, and a $500,000 donation the former Fox News executive made to the university in 2007 will be returned, according to reports by the station, WOUB, and The Post, a student-run newspaper. Mr. Ailes, a 1962 alumnus of the university, has been accused by more than 20 women of sexual harassment. Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox, recently reached a $20-million settlement with Gretchen Carlson, a former news anchor whose lawsuit precipitated the investigation that led to Mr.
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State Faculty Authorize Negotiating Committee to Call a Strike
An overwhelming majority of faculty in Pennsylvania's state university system voted to authorize their faculty union to call a strike when leadership deems one necessary, the union said Monday. Faculty at the 14 universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education cast their votes last week, with 82 percent of eligible faculty voting. Of those, 93 percent voted to give the leadership of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties the authority to call a strike, the union said.