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College at Oxford Will Remove Cecil Rhodes Plaque
Oriel College of Britain's University of Oxford has announced that it is starting the process of removing a plaque that honors Cecil Rhodes, the British imperialist whose bequest created Rhodes Scholarships. Minority students have been pushing the college to remove the plaque and also a statue of Rhodes. The college announced it is seeking local authorities' approval to remove the plaque, explaining that "this plaque was erected in 1906 by a private individual.
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Colleges’ Climate for Low-income Students Shapes Academic Confidence
Some colleges put significant resources into recruiting and financially supporting low-income students. But how colleges describe those programs also matters, according to a new paper. If messages from a college suggest that it is "warm" toward students like them, the authors found, low-income students’ academic confidence and identification as high achievers are stronger than if the messages suggest that it is "chilly" — that the needs of students like them are ignored or overlooked. We talked with the paper’s lead author, Alexander S.
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How Oil’s Fall Led to ISIS’s Rise
Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited.
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Oberlin Students Take Culture War to the Dining Hall
Some students at Oberlin College are taking their demands for diversity and racial inclusion to the dining hall, asking for more traditional meals and criticizing what they consider poor efforts at multicultural cooking. It is the latest skirmish in a year marked by protests and other actions by college students to challenge the cultural and racial status quo on campuses across America.
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My Sorry Social Security Return
Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School shares his commentary on the Social Security system.
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Someday, the School Name On Your College Diploma Won’t Be the Most Important Thing
More employers want to hire someone with a bachelor’s degree these days even for jobs that previously didn’t require them, but at the same time recruiters increasingly place less trust in a diploma. Those are the findings from two different studies in recent years. One was an analysis by Burning Glass, a company that evaluates job ads. It discovered, for example, that 65 percent of new job postings for executive secretaries and executive assistants asked for a bachelor’s degree.
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AP Builds New Multi-format Team For Education News Coverage
A new national beat team has been established at The Associated Press to elevate coverage of issues in education, the news cooperative announced Monday. The team will aim to generate more coverage off the news and explore trends affecting students of all ages, using text, video, photos and interactive multi-format storytelling about how trends in education are affecting children and families across America and around the world.
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N.Y.U. President’s Penthouse Gets a Face-lift Worth $1.1.Million (or More)
New York University is known for bestowing lavish perks on its leaders. Its new president, Andrew Hamilton, will be no exception. Anticipating his January arrival from the University of Oxford, where he has been vice chancellor, N.Y.U. has been completely renovating a 4,200-square-foot penthouse duplex with four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms and an expansive rooftop terrace. The apartment is in a landmark building at 37 Washington Square West in Greenwich Village, and it will be Dr. Hamilton’s residence, a university spokesman said.
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African-Americans Most Likely to Attend Low-quality Colleges
Marybeth Gasman and Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education share their thoughts on how linking the “quality” of colleges to the earning of its alumni or the school’s student loan default rate is problematic.
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How Does a College Get an Exemption from Title IX?
The federal gender-equity law known as Title IX has largely become known for two issues in higher education: requiring equity in opportunities for women in college sports and, more recently, a nationwide wave of demands for colleges to crack down on sexual harassment and rape. In fact, the law's reach goes much further than those specific issues, barring all forms of discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in "all aspects of education programs or activities operated by recipients of federal financial assistance," according to an explanation of the law from the U.S.