The day after a congressional hearing to discuss legislation that would create a commission to study reparations for African Americans, an old claim about white, Irish slaves gained steam.
Many of Beau Baker’s brightest students in Louisville, Ky., entered high school thinking college was not for a first-generation kid like them. Baker is working to change that.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos formally repealed an Obama-era regulation that would have forced for-profit colleges to prove their debt-laden graduates could find gainful employment.
"... while I admire campus activism for its commitment to social justice, I also worry that it sometimes becomes infused with a prickly intolerance, embracing every kind of diversity except one: ideological diversity."
For over a dozen years the Michigan city has offered to pay tuition for local students. The result is lots more begin higher education but graduation rates are mixed, as some remain hobbled by academic or economic ills.
An Ohio judge cut practically in half a $44 million award won by small-business owners who accused Oberlin College of ruining their business by encouraging protests against them and branding them racists.
The ringleader of the nationwide college admissions cheating scheme, William “Rick” Singer, built a foundation for his operation at IMG Academy by connecting with a crucial partner at the Florida sports boarding school.
New IRS guidelines further define which institutions are subject to the tax and what should be included as taxable "investment income" (surprise: dorm rental income).