Pa. system may get relief from deal with faculty; no campus free-speech crisis, just panic, scholar says; why it's OK to submit flawed work; and more.
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Dozens of colleges are using a new tool that measures students’ socioeconomic disadvantages. It’s an attempt to quantify the challenges many applicants encounter. PREMIUM
Under an agreement between the State System of Higher Education and its faculty union, nearly 1,000 full-time faculty members would qualify for “phased” retirement this fall.
Daniel Greenstein, a self-described “erstwhile postsecondary technocrat,” must turn around a collection of struggling campuses that compete fiercely with one another, as well as with an overcrowded field of other public institutions, in a state where he has only tenuous connections. PREMIUM
Jeffrey A. Sachs, a lecturer in politics at Canada’s Acadia University, believes that an overblown fear is gripping administrators and commentators. PREMIUM
The plaintiff is Students for Fair Admissions, the same group that has also sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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