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  • Obama Calls Out Liberal “Dogmatism” On College Campuses
    Vox.com

    Obama Calls Out Liberal “Dogmatism” On College Campuses

    President Obama wants college students at Missouri and elsewhere to organize and protest when it's important, but he's also worried about something else: students being too quick to shut down the other side and not listen. In a wide-ranging interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, he argued that on college campuses, students are too eager to avoid debate and discussion:

    Nov 17, 2015

    Higher Education Has Always Been a Mess
    Chronicle of Higher Education

    Higher Education Has Always Been a Mess

    Starting in the mid-20th century, academe became idolized, in good times, as embodying everything right about America, and demonized, in bad times, as embodying everything wrong. It’s neither, and both — a crazy, amorphous amalgam of interests and histories that couldn’t have been planned and won’t become extinct. It was ragtag and subpar until World War II, then enjoyed a 30-year golden age.

    Nov 17, 2015

    Black Colleges and the Feeling of Home
    Huffington Post

    Black Colleges and the Feeling of Home

    Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education writes about the college experience for African-American students at HBCUs.

    Nov 17, 2015

    5 Ways That Campus MOOC Initiatives Impact Local Residential Learning
    Inside Higher Ed

    5 Ways That Campus MOOC Initiatives Impact Local Residential Learning

    Are you part a MOOC at your school? Have you taught, developed, TA’d, facilitated, designed, filmed, edited, assessed or communicated about an open online course at your college or university? The most vocal opinions on MOOCs seem to belong to those who have never worked on a MOOC.  Let’s give the practitioners a chance to talk about their experiences. Here are 5 ways that I have observed how creating and teaching MOOCs can impact residential teaching and learning:

    Nov 17, 2015

    Mao’s MOOC Rehabilitation
    Inside Higher Ed

    Mao’s MOOC Rehabilitation

    EdX, provider of massive open online courses, hosts an assortment of offerings on Chinese history. There's The Study of Folklore from Peking University, a look at international politics from Seoul National University and a five-part series on everything from aristocratic culture to neo-Confucianism from Harvard University.

    Nov 17, 2015

    Government to Expand Program to Forgive Student Loan Debt
    The New York Times

    Government to Expand Program to Forgive Student Loan Debt

    The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it would expand its program to forgive federal student loan debt to thousands more students who attended programs of Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit education companies. Earlier this year, the department said that tens of thousands of students who had attended Heald College, Corinthian campuses mostly in California, were eligible for immediate processing of requests for debt relief.

    Nov 17, 2015

    Does Violence Lurk in Psychopath’s Brains?
    PhillyVoice

    Does Violence Lurk in Psychopath’s Brains?

    Adrian Raine of the School of Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine is featured for studying neurocriminology.

    Nov 17, 2015

    College Completion Rates Decline More Rapidly
    Inside Higher Ed

    College Completion Rates Decline More Rapidly

    Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first enrolling in college, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit clearinghouse is able to track 96 percent of students nationwide. It found an overall national completion rate of 52.9 percent for students who enrolled in the fall of 2009. That rate was down 2.1 percentage points from that of the previous year's cohort of students, according to the clearinghouse, and the rate of decline is accelerating.

    Nov 17, 2015