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Rebate for Completion
Massachusetts officials on Thursday announced a new program to encourage students attending community colleges to finish their programs and move on to four-year institutions. "We have to get more students in so they're completing at rates that will assist us in filling gaps in job openings across the commonwealth," said Carlos Santiago, the state's commissioner of higher education.
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Department of Education Nudges College Accreditors To Get Tougher
The Department of Education is calling on accreditation agencies to step up their review of colleges and universities, just as lawmakers are calling on the department to strengthen its review of accreditors. Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell sent a letter Friday to all accrediting agencies recognized by the department encouraging them to use the full extent of the law to monitor student achievement and troubled institutions.
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Opinion: To Fight Climate Change, First Find Some Optimism
Eric Orts of the Wharton School pens an op-ed about fighting climate change.
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‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Nina’ Try to Hit the Beat on the Offbeat
Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences shares her review of the jazz biopic featuring Miles Davis.
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Penn Contest Singles Out Two Apps
Participants at Penn’s third AppitUp Demo Day are highlighted.
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Defunding Diversity
On Thursday, both the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill to cut the entire $436,000 state appropriation for an office at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that promotes diversity at the state's flagship university. Republican legislators in both houses have for months been criticizing the diversity office, which students have been rallying to support. On Tuesday, hundreds of students walked out of class to protest the bill, and many of the students sat on university walkways to block movement.
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The Enemies of Roger Scruton
Samuel Freeman of the School of Arts & Sciences reviews Roger Scruton’s book Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left.
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Pennsylvania Republicans Have a Weird Primary. Here’s How It Works
Marc Meredith and Matthew Levendusky of the School of Arts & Sciences comment on the upcoming republican primary in Pennsylvania.
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Wow! The Life-changing Power of Experiencing Profound Awe
David Yaden of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on being the lead author of a study, “The Overview Effect: Awe and Self-transcendent Experience in Space Flight.”
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Public Good, Private Money
Momentum for passing a national free community college program may have slowed, but businesses and private donors are picking up the slack. While state movements to increase access to college in several localities, such as in Tennessee, have generated headlines across the country, many locally based “promise” scholarship programs are funded by private dollars and donations. At the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Michelle Miller-Adams estimates there are about 80 local, place-based scholarship or promise-type programs across the country.