Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Less than half (47%) of public schools rated themselves as doing a “very good” or “excellent” job preparing students for college, according to a nationally representative survey released by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce took aim at colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion practices during a two-hour hearing Thursday. Republicans focused much of their attention on diversity in medical education,…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Utah House lawmakers Friday approved final changes to a sweeping bill that would effectively eliminate public colleges’ diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, one of the last key steps before it heads to Gov. Spencer Cox’s…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A Nebraska lawmaker introduced a bill last week that would end tenure protections across the state’s public colleges. The proposal would replace tenure with employee agreements and yearly performance evaluations for all faculty members. It…
Public safety officials at universities and colleges face many of the same challenges that municipal police and fire departments do. For instance, consider the daunting task faced by university public safety personnel during each home football game at Clemson University in South Carolina. The small town of Clemson’s population of under 20,000 residents swells on…