Turnitin, the software company that allows teachers to check whether papers submitted by students have been plagiarized, is being bought for $1.75 billion by Advance Publications.
The nation's oldest historically black college, which has struggled with plummeting enrollment and financial woes in recent years, announced a plan Tuesday to balance the school's budget and lure new, top-tier students.
"People tend to overlook the rural areas," says David Hochstetler, a high school senior in rural Michigan. "I think it's kind of disappointing because some able students could get looked over."
When college is held up as the one, true path to success, parents—especially highly educated ones—may worry when their children opt for vocational school instead.
As President Trump says colleges ignore free speech, University of Tennessee at Knoxville cites the First Amendment as a reason not to expel students for blackface. In protest of that decision, students engage in form of protest Trump repeatedly questions.
Advance, a privately held media, communications, and technology company, will pay $1.735 billion to purchase Turnitin, which dominates the work of rooting out academic cheaters.
University officials promised to “promptly and fairly” investigate a prominent professor accused of sexual harassment over decades. Many of the women who accused him now say they think Harvard is dragging its feet.
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