Social fraternities are a conventional fixture on faculty campuses, and the organizations can positively impression members—encouraging neighborhood service and providing social and profession advantages—however they will additionally promote heavy consuming, sexual assault and hazing. A just lately printed report from the Jed Basis (JED) identifies the psychological well being advantages of membership for fraternity males…
Embattled Keystone School is going through a possible lack of accreditation by the tip of this 12 months, in accordance with a discover posted final week by the Center States Fee on Increased Schooling. The non-public faculty in Pennsylvania has confronted mounting enterprise challenges lately. The accreditor alleges that the faculty did not adjust to…
Occidental School has settled with two nonprofit organizations targeted on combating antisemitism over a federal Workplace for Civil Rights grievance that the campus was a hostile atmosphere for Jewish and Israeli college students within the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel. Underneath the settlement, reached with the Anti-Defamation League and…
Spelman School introduced that Helene Gayle, president of the traditionally Black girls’s faculty in Atlanta, won’t be coming back from a depart of absence, The Atlanta Journal-Structure reported. No cause was given for her depart, which she took “efficient instantly” in October, or for her everlasting departure. Gayle started her function on the faculty in…
One other battle is brewing at New Faculty of Florida, this time between the administration and the NCF Basis. President Richard Corcoran and the Board of Trustees are searching for to exert extra authority over the direct-support fundraising group, together with the ability to take away members with out trigger. Some critics say that Corcoran…
Final month Vassar Faculty doubled down on its liberal arts bona fides, opening a brand new institute to function a hub for coverage and debate with the objective of constructing discussions about such points extra accessible. The Institute for the Liberal Arts, which sits on the sting of Vassar’s campus and features a resort and…
Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for protection secretary, has been a vocal advocate for for-profit faculties, pushing again on rules on the sector. Hegseth emerged as a powerful supporter of for-profit faculties in the course of the first Trump administration. Talking at a Profession Schooling Schools and Universities occasion in 2019, Hegseth promised the…
Embedded writing tutors can enhance college students’ tutorial expertise and make them extra prone to search assist from friends. SDI Productions/E+/Getty Photos Because the COVID-19 pandemic, a better variety of incoming faculty college students have struggled with discovering their footing academically in larger schooling. A September report by EAB discovered undergraduate college students can not…
Gallaudet College was one in every of a number of universities throughout the nation to host election night time watch events Tuesday, Nov. 5. Ashley Mowreader/Inside Larger Ed On election night time, Gallaudet College in Washington, D.C., buzzed with vitality, as a number of hundred college students packed into the scholar middle to observe outcomes are…
Fundamental wants consultants say meals insecurity is likely one of the largest obstacles to varsity completion for low-income college students. MangoStar_Studio/iStock/Getty Photos The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Schooling have introduced a partnership to handle meals insecurity amongst faculty college students with the hope of breaking down obstacles to faculty completion whereas boosting scholar retention…
When Liv Barefoot first heard Hurricane Helene was headed towards the College of North Carolina at Asheville, she didn’t anticipate it to upend her senior yr and escalate her nervousness about local weather change. That’s as a result of she’d all the time thought of the North Carolina mountains as one thing of a “local…
The Northwest Florida State Faculty District Board of Trustees chosen Okaloosa County commissioner Melvin Ponder to function the faculty’s subsequent president, in line with an announcement Tuesday. Ponder, a former state consultant, has no expertise in greater schooling. He was considered one of 4 finalists. The board plans to finalize an employment settlement with Ponder…