Tag: Colleges and Universities

Beltway Confidential

Billionaire's plan to pay off Morehouse College student debt just created opening for fascinating social science study

Philip Klein · May 20, 2019 3:36 pm

Robert F. Smith, left, laughs with David Thomas, center, and actress Angela Bassett at Morehouse College on Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Atlanta.

Billionaire commencement speaker to pay off student loans of entire class

Caitlin Yilek · May 19, 2019 7:50 pm

Rep. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the top Republican on the Democrat-controlled House Oversight and Reform Committee, speaks to The Associated Press about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of whether President Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 25, 2019.

Jim Jordan says Ohio State report shows he didn’t know about sexual abuse

Diana Stancy Correll · May 17, 2019 8:31 pm

Katerina Maylock, with Capitals Educators, teaches a test preparation class at Holton Arms School, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016 in Bethesda.

Beltway Confidential

Here’s how the College Board can fix the SAT without intersectional nonsense

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 17, 2019 5:12 pm

The raid was the latest escalation in the fight between College Board, which creates and administers the popular SAT and PSAT tests, and Manuel Alfaro, who oversaw the development of parts of the SAT when he was on the payroll there.

New SAT ‘adversity score’ includes crime, poverty of test-taker neighborhoods

John Gage · May 16, 2019 11:24 pm

Cambridge, Mass. â April 9, 2016: Harvard University campus in spring.

Harvard’s satirical magazine apologizes for sexualized image of Anne Frank in bikini

Diana Stancy Correll · May 15, 2019 2:43 pm

The Academic and Career Education Academy in Midland, Mich., uses the state government's per-pupil education spending to cover college and high school costs. (iStock photo)

Red Alert Politics

The college admissions scandal just got worse

Brendan Pringle · May 15, 2019 1:00 pm

Harvard caves to the mob

Brad Polumbo · May 14, 2019 7:51 pm

In this Oct. 23, 2018 photo, students walk on the campus of Miami Dade College, in Miami. The nine companies and organizations tasked with servicing the accounts of the nationâs 30 million student loan borrowers repeatedly failed to do their jobs properly over a period of years and their regulator neglected to hold them responsible, a report finds. The report released Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, by the Department of Educationâs independent Inspector Generalâs office shows some borrowers werenât getting the guidance and protection they needed as they sought the best plan for paying off their student loans.

Republicans need a plan for student debt reform

Joel Acevedo · May 14, 2019 4:00 am

Red Alert Politics

Professor alleges pay-to-play homework scam at Arizona State University

John Patrick · May 13, 2019 8:30 pm

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks during a rally at the Teamster Local 249 Hall in Pittsburgh Monday, April 29, 2019.

Biden reminisced about stealing lingerie in college

Alana Goodman · May 13, 2019 5:49 pm

FILE - In a Jan. 25, 2019 file photo, attorney and Harvard faculty member Ronald Sullivan Jr. arrives at New York Supreme Court, in New York. Sullivan, who decided to represent Harvey Weinstein at his rape trial, is losing his position as head of a student house at the college. Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana said in a written statement Saturday, May 11, 2019 that he would not renew the appointments of Ronald Sullivan and his wife, Stephanie Robinson, the schoolâs first black faculty deans, citing concerns about the climate at Winthrop House, which he described as serious and numerous. Sullivan lives at the house and supervises students there.

Beltway Confidential

Campus activists’ un-American war on Ronald Sullivan Jr.

Tiana Lowe Doescher · May 13, 2019 3:29 pm