One college sues another over dead donor's money; Education Dept. wants accreditors to compete; lawsuit says it botched loan-relief program; and more.
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The Missouri donor had stipulated that professors hired with his gift must be “dedicated and articulate” believers in the free-market Austrian School of Economics. Hillsdale’s ties to that ideology may be why it was entrusted to oversee the donation. (PREMIUM)
Proposed rules would remove obstacles to competition, but critics warn that such an approach would lead to even less oversight of higher education. (PREMIUM)
The suit alleges the department and its secretary, Betsy DeVos, have mismanaged the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Almost none of the 73,500 people who have applied for relief have received it.
An associate professor of history is the first American academic to be indicted for signing a January 2016 petition accusing the Turkish military of engaging in a “deliberate and planned massacre” of Kurdish residents.
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