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Elizabeth Warren focuses on college debt; Congress must join the debate
Boston Globe - Editorial
May 18, 2013
Congress has a number of mechanisms to address an untenable student-loan situation, starting with requiring colleges to provide students with more information on the details and implications of the loans they’ll be taking out. Meanwhile, stricter scrutiny of higher-ed institutions — by both loan applicants and loan approvers — might prompt some students to reject the entreaties of disreputable or low-quality institutions. Warren deserves credit for jump-starting a debate with implications for millions of students, thousands of institutions, and the future of the US economy. Now, Congress needs to follow through.
Ohio Republicans Seek to Tie Tuition Rates to Students’ Voter Registrations
Chronicle of Highe Education
May 17, 2013
Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives have included an amendment in the state budget that would make students eligible for in-state tuition rates if universities continue to provide them with documents that allow them to register to vote in Ohio. Supporters say it seeks to streamline tuition and voting standards. But critics say it is designed to penalize universities that make it easier for students to vote, since students traditionally vote disproportionately for Democratic candidates.
House Panel Approves Market Approach to Student-Loan Interest Rates
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 17, 2013
With interest rates on some federal student loans set to double in just over six weeks, and members of Congress and President Obama scrambling to avert the increase, on Thursday the House education committee passed HR 1911. The bill would switch to a market-based formula for setting rates, similar to the president's budget proposal for 2014. Two Democrats joined all Republicans on the committee in approving the measure.
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Rev. John Denning Named President of Stonehill College
Stonehill College Website
May 17, 2013
Stonehill College has named Rev. John Denning, C.S.C. as its tenth President today, Friday, May 17. Currently the Vice President for Student Affairs at the College, Fr. Denning will assume the presidency on July 1, as Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C. steps down after 13 successful years of leading the 65-year-old Catholic liberal arts college. Fr. Denning began his service at the College in 2000 as its Director of Campus Ministry.
Inside Higher Ed
May 17, 2013
Would you be willing to pay about $13,000 more a year in tuition to go to a college that doesn’t invest in fossil fuels? That’s the amount of revenue that Swarthmore College administrators recently estimated the college would forgo in endowment returns if the college’s governing board decided to divest from fossil fuels. The bulk of Swarthmore’s estimated losses would not come from screening out fossil fuel companies directly, but rather through requiring the college to fundamentally change how it manages its endowment.
Inside Higher Ed
May 17, 2013
Despite a year of considerable hype as leading colleges and universities created online partnerships to try to redefine higher education, a recent spate of strong faculty reactions make clear that tradition will not change easily or silently, especially at institutions with a strong history of faculty influence. The decisions by the three universities (Duke University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester) offer a spectrum of reactions to a new wave of online learning and the companies that are trying to drive that change.
Hiram College president Tom Chema to exit post
Crain's Cleveland Business
May 16, 2013
Hiram College president Thomas V. Chema announced that he will step down at the end of the 2013-2014 academic year. He has led the small private college since 2003. Hiram said it has launched a national search for Mr. Chema's replacement. The next president is slated to begin July 1, 2014. Prior to his arrival at Hiram, Mr. Chema served as a partner at Arter & Hadden LLP in Cleveland.
Yale faces $165,000 fine after university 'fails to report' four sex offenses
New Haven, conn., Register
May 15, 2013
Yale University faces a $165,000 fine for “very serious and numerous” violations of the law requiring Yale to report incidents of crime on campus. The U.S. Department of Education, in an April 19 letter to President Richard Levin, charged that Yale did not report four “forcible sex offenses in its campus crime statistics,” two each in 2001 and 2002. Yale admitted the omission in 2004 and said it had implemented corrective action.
Wofford College announces its new president
Associated Press
May 15, 2013
Trustees voted Tuesday to name Nayef Samhat the private college's new leader. Samhat has served as provost and a political science and international studies professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, for the past four years. He will replace Benjamin Dunlap this summer. Dunlap, who has been Wofford's president since 2000, will take a yearlong sabbatical, then return as a humanities professor.
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