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Potential Processing Delays for Financial Aid Due to Calculation Error

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications. The guide will be updated regularly through April 2024.

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The Law School Hiring Market Undervalues Women, Minorities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Inevitably, the document pairs its lonely truth with an almost laughable falsehood, stating that tax law scholars who are female are “difficult or impossible to find.” That is particularly obvious at the sort of elite institutions the suit emphasizes. Neither Stanford nor the University of Chicago have any.

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. We know it works” says Nájera, “and we also know that we’re not creating another underclass and that documenting these workers lifts all ships. Gavin Newsom.

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Why your institution may face enhanced cybersecurity requirements

University Business

In light of the Department of Justice filing suit against the Georgia Institute of Technology for allegedly failing to apply contractually required information security controls to Department of Defense data, higher education institutions should pay close attention to a proposed Department of Education rule.

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Distance education via online learning may be in a for a huge shake-up due to this proposal

University Business

For example, a January document from Department officials says SARA allows institutions “to evade State rules and leverages its veto power to override any proposed changes to current distance education policy. Institutions, especially for-profits, have recently come to light for defrauding in-need students.

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Understanding the purpose and role of the CAA UAE in higher education

Creatrix Campus

CAA is UAE’s official higher education quality assurance organization. It accredits all higher education institutions not affiliated with the federal government by taking them through a series of quality assurance steps and offering them a license to operate.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Quantitative data are also essential, especially for documenting patterns of inequity and raising questions about how bias and other forces lead to observed differences. At the foundation of any effort to improve faculty diversity must be data that document the social identities and background characteristics of faculty.

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