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4 votes
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How an Ivy League school turned against a student
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MIT is reinstating its SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles
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US lawsuit says sixteen elite colleges are part of price-fixing cartel
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Notes on work
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The SAT will go completely digital by 2024
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University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error
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Why I'm tired of hearing about wokeism
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Where the humanities aren't in crisis
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Goodbye, MIT
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Improving MIT’s written commitment to freedom of expression
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UCSB Student Housing Cube
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Architect resigns in protest over UCSB mega-dorm
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As women become 60% of all US college students and continue to outpace & outperform men, the WSJ takes a look at how colleges and students feel about it
16 votes -
US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
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I signed up to write college essays for rich kids. I found cheating is more complicated than I thought.
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WeChat deletes Chinese university LGBT accounts in fresh crackdown
16 votes -
Am I Doctor Stallman?
15 votes -
Becker College (Worcester, Massachusetts) closing its doors
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If the US Federal Government was to stop issuing student financial aid to private colleges and universities, what would be the impact to those institutions?
Posted this over on r/highereducation, thought it might be interesting here. I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially in the context of "free college" proposals. Subsidizing private...
Posted this over on r/highereducation, thought it might be interesting here.
I've been thinking a lot about this lately, especially in the context of "free college" proposals. Subsidizing private colleges and universities would be a political non-starter. I'm assuming the government would have a "teach-out" style plan to transition schools off federal dollars. Regardless, the impact would be massive. I've briefly glanced at financial aid and revenue data for one R1 school, and it seems federal money makes up a significant (20-30%) portion of annual operating revenue. While that doesn't seem like much at first, I suspect enrollment would drop significantly at many schools if there was the alternative of going to a public university for free. Several thoughts come to mind:
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What percent of schools would close or merge?
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What would be some of the most surprising schools to close?
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How quickly would schools close? Would they immediately shutter, close at the end of the transition period, or struggle on for a few years?
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What is the breakdown of institution types (R1/2 vs SLAC vs engineering schools)?
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What would be the impact on religiously-affiliated colleges, especially Catholic schools (there's already many little-known ones in the middle of nowhere)?
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Of the schools that survive, what sort of strategies would they employ to remain solvent (lean heavier on foreign students, reduce admissions standards, have mandatory work-study programs to reduce administrative costs, create alumni contracts akin to tithing, invest more in the financial sector/Wall Street)?
Edit: Whoops, I thought I posted this in ~misc. Oh well.
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Defrauded students to receive loan forgiveness
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How our brutal science system almost cost us a pioneer of mRNA vaccines
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Beer company Natty Light is the unlikely force behind the 'Da Vinci of Debt', now on view in Grand Central Station
11 votes -
Is college still worth it?
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I just got accepted to do a Master's degree!
I'm dead excited, and I just wanted to share somewhere! Since graduating from my Bachelor's I've been working in IT support, and it's slowly killing me. Progression is slow, the work is boring,...
I'm dead excited, and I just wanted to share somewhere!
Since graduating from my Bachelor's I've been working in IT support, and it's slowly killing me. Progression is slow, the work is boring, and at the end of the day all I have to show for my efforts is (hopefully) a slightly lower number of open tickets than at the start. It all feels incredibly pointless, and like I'm not making a difference in peoples' lives.I decided earlier this year to start looking into possible Master's degree programs, to help me enter a different field, and I'm happy to say that from next September I'll be returning to my alma mater to study Linguistics and English Language Teaching. From there, I'm hoping to go into teaching English as a foreign language, first abroad, and then to immigrants and refugees back here in the UK.
I'm super excited, and also a little nervous. I coasted through my Bachelor's and the past few years of my working life, so it'll be a shock to the system to have a proper workload again. I've got to get through the next 8 months or so first, but that will be easier knowing that I have something different and exciting waiting for me at the end of this particular career path. I'm desperately saving up as much money as I can to cover my living expenses for the year (I don't intend to work during my degree), which is another thing to feel nervous about.
But right now, I'm mostly just ecstatic, and wanted to share! In the interest of discussion, I'd love to hear about your experiences studying a Master's degree, and whether or not it helped you in your life after graduation.
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The morality of canceling student debt
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Scientific publishers consider installing spyware in university libraries to protect copyrights
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The enduring relevance of college radio
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The mad, mad world of niche sports among Ivy League-obsessed parents
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America will sacrifice anything for the college experience
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Bad arguments against teaching Chinese philosophy
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The dollars and sense of free college - Georgetown University analysis of Biden's free college plan finds that it pays for itself within a decade
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“I feel that the future I’ve been working towards my whole life is gone now” — What United States college students have to say about the coronavirus
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Edinburgh Philosophy – Voices on Hume
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Here’s how Cornell kept low covid-19 rates on campus
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College newspaper reporters are the journalism heroes for the pandemic era
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Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower?
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Are illegal strikes justified?
This question is inspired by the university of Michigan's grad student union's announcement that it will strike this week. As noted in the university's response Michigan state law prohibits state...
This question is inspired by the university of Michigan's grad student union's announcement that it will strike this week. As noted in the university's response Michigan state law prohibits state employees from striking and GEO's contract with UofM (signed in April) has a clause that prohibits work stoppages.
Are strikes performed in violation of the law (state or otherwise) or a contract justified? Why or why not?
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GWU investigating whether White professor invented her Black identity
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The pandemic is no excuse to surveil students
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A math problem stumped experts for fifty years. This grad student from Maine solved it in days
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US universities seek ways to protect students and faculty from being prosecuted by Chinese authorities
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How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
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National trends in grade inflation, American colleges and universities
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US Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
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Stanford cuts eleven sports from their varsity program
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ICE announces modifications to international student policies amid coronavirus pandemic
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Researchers at Cornell University concluded that an online semester would result in more COVID-19
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Lurching toward Fall, disaster on the horizon
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Higher ed: Enough already
17 votes