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Obama Breathed New Life Into Federal Grant Aid, Yet It’s Not Enough to Tackle College Costs
The Obama administration has made unprecedented investments in the Pell grant program for needy college students, increasing access and the award amount over the years. Yet in the face of rising higher education costs and dwindling state investment, the program is fighting an uphill battle to make college affordable for low-income students. This month marks the seventh anniversary of President Obama signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a bill that, among many other things, doubled Pell funding by more than $17 billion.
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Colleges Draw Hard Lines Against Calls to Restrict Speech
As colleges around the nation face pressure to regulate campus speech, several have pushed back by formally declaring refusals to limit the exchange of ideas. At the forefront is the University of Chicago, which last year adopted a statement on free expression on campuses that is being heralded as a model for colleges elsewhere. Its statement says the university should not try to shield people from ideas "they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive," and has a responsibility to ensure visiting speakers on campus are unhindered by student protesters.
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One University Prepares Students to Intervene
The University of New Hampshire’s campaign to prevent sex assault is based on two programs: "Bringing in the Bystander" was developed in 2002 as an in-person training program that the university’s Prevention Innovations Research Center sells to colleges. The program teaches people to safely intervene when a situation looks as if it could become dangerous, and it is aimed at increasing their willingness to do so. The other program, "Know Your Power," is a newer social-marketing effort that uses 26 images depicting real-life scenarios to promote bystander behaviors.
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Mount St. Mary’s President Quits After Firings Seen as Retaliatory
A Maryland university president resigned on Monday, weeks after a furor erupted on campus over faculty firings and a student newspaper article that quoted the president as comparing struggling freshmen to bunnies that should be drowned or shot. The board of the university, Mount St. Mary’s in Emmitsburg, about 60 miles northwest of Baltimore, announced that the dean of the business school would replace the departing university leader, Simon Newman, as acting president effective immediately. Mr.
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Penn Doc to Head National Heart-surgery Group
Joseph Bavaria of the Perelman School of Medicine is highlighted for being elected president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for 2016.
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Quiz: How Much Grit Do You Have?
The Grit Scale, developed by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences, is featured.
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UC Berkeley Breach: Universities Increasingly Targeted in Cyberattacks
The University of California at Berkeley is investigating a cyberattack on a university computer system that holds financial data for 80,000 people, from students and alumni to faculty and vendors. The San Francisco Bay area university said on Friday that there is no evidence any information has been stolen, but that it has notified potential victims of the data breach, which include about half of the school’s current students, two-thirds of its active employees, and over 10,000 vendors who work with the school.
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The Guys Behind the Scenes Get Their Due
Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about recognizing and honoring screenwriters at the Academy Awards.
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Speaker Beware
As a political-science professor at Central Washington University, Mathew S. Manweller has a personal stake in protecting academic freedom. When the Legislature began this year’s session, Mr. Manweller, who is also a state representative, proposed a bill calling for Washington to strongly defend free speech in two of academe’s most contentious debates, over trigger warnings and microaggressions. Throughout the nation, instructors are under pressure from students to provide them with trigger warnings — advance notice of instructional material that might cause them emotional distress.
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La Salle Students Demonstrate for “Black Lives Matter,” Change on Campus
Adding their voices to the “Black Lives Matter” movement, dozens of La Salle University students demonstrated for more than an hour on campus Monday, also calling on their own university to do more. “It’s hard to find a place called home,” said Ariana Branford, 21, a senior from Reading and president of the African American Student League on campus.