“This story is everywhere. Worse than pepper spray. It will fade away, but not for a while. And based on our track record, it's a sure thing we will do more stupid stuff as we try to put it behind us.”
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"Free tuition" is a simple promise that some researchers, like Sara Goldrick-Rab now at Temple University, believe would motivate more working class students to dream of college and actually make it through.
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Wiewel will leave after nine years on the job.
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Even as long-neglected maintenance threatens to further escalate the price of higher education, universities continue to borrow and spend record amounts on new buildings.
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“We took the strike-authorization vote. When are we going to fight, if not now?”
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"Public research universities are being asked to educate more students and effectively prepare them for the workforce and society at the same time they continue to face reduced state and local funding," APLU President Peter McPherson said.
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“Students’ backgrounds tended to shape what they got out of the course. For minority students, the dialogue did little to reframe their thinking. It did, though, give them an opportunity to trade perspectives and bond with other students, in a room where others looked like them. But for many white students, hearing about their classmates’ experiences upended their assumptions.”
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"While each school's board of trustees has the authority to hire and fire the presidents and holds public meetings, the presidential council doesn't intend to open its doors to the general public."
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“College leaders could and should be doing far more to promote the use of free, openly licensed materials, to prevent publishers from treating students ‘like walking cash registers.’”
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Universities are discovering that keeping low-income students in school takes more than financial aid.
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“It's very important that whatever we do will be a deep understanding of what as a college we need and what we stand for in the long run.”
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U.S. Education Secretary John King will argue that interactions with children from different backgrounds prepare students for the workforce.
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