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☆ In a Surprise, Cornell’s President Resigns
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Stephanie Saul | More About Stephanie Saul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Martha E. Pollack, Cornell University’s president for the past seven years, announced in a surprise email on Thursday afternoon that she is resigning. In a separate announcement, Kraig H. Kayser, the chairman of Cornell’s board of trustees, said the board had asked the university provost, Michael I. Kotlikoff, to serve as interim president for two years. Dr. Kotlikoff was previously dean of Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, among other posts. Dr. Pollack’s resignation means that four of the eight Ivy League universities — Harvard, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell — will now be in various stages of leadership transition, three of them with interim presidents already in charge or presidential searches underway. The presidents of Harvard and Penn resigned in the last six months, in part because of fallout over their testimony at a December congressional hearing investigating campus antisemitism.

Persons: Martha E . Pollack, Cornell, “, ”, ” “, —, ” Dr, Pollack, Kraig H, Kayser, Michael I, Kotlikoff, Pollack’s, Cornell —, Penn Organizations: Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, Ivy League, — Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Harvard

☆ Robert Kraft says elite schools are to blame for 'hate' on campus
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-02 | by ( Paul Squire | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Robert Kraft says top schools' leadership and faculty have "failed" students as protests continue. The Patriots owner and megadonor to Columbia University pulled his support for the Ivy last week. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . "The leadership and faculty of so many of our leading educational institutions have failed their students," the 82-year-old sports exec wrote.

Persons: Robert Kraft, —, Robert Kraft isn't, Kraft Organizations: Patriots, Columbia University, Ivy, Service, New England Patriots, Business Locations: Israel, Gaza

Ten nonprofits serving young people in Detroit will get an unusual, lasting gift as part of a campaign started by Lisa Ford and her husband, Bill Ford, the executive chairman of Ford Motor Co. Endowments are funds a nonprofit can invest and the annual financial returns from those investments can go into the nonprofit’s budget. Detroit-area nonprofits may apply in June, when Michigan Central Station will reopen, and ten selected organizations will each receive $500,000 to launch an endowment. The Children's Foundation will manage the nonprofits’ endowments and offer them guidance and technical support over two years. Lisa Ford said the idea for creating endowments for youth nonprofits evolved out of their commitment to supporting a robust and vibrant future for the city and the automotive industry.

Persons: Lisa Ford, Bill Ford, ’ ”, Andrew Stein, ”, ” Ford, Todd Ely, Ely, ” Ely, Meadow Didier, Stein Organizations: Ford Motor Co, Children’s Foundation, Michigan Central, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Harvard, Foundation, Children’s, Endowments, Internal Revenue Service, University of Colorado, Nonprofit Finance Fund, Children's, Ford, Associated, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Detroit, Michigan, University of Colorado Denver

☆ Dartmouth men's basketball is the first college team to vote to unionize. But the fight over the future of college sports could just be beginning.
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

By a vote of 13 to 2, the team voted to join the service employees union SEIU Local 560 — making them the first college athletes in US history to vote to join a labor union. Then, last month, the NLRB ruled that the Dartmouth players were employees of the school, clearing the way for the unionization vote. The Dartmouth vote also comes as the share of union members in the US reached a record low of just 10% in 2023. AdvertisementIn the short term, however, the impact of the Dartmouth vote could be limited. AdvertisementIf the NLRB's decision to recognize the Dartmouth players stands, it could establish a precedent that enables other teams to follow suit.

Persons: —, Dartmouth, Kaiser, There's, Victor Chen, Chen, Jake Rosenfeld, Louis, Trump, Rosenfeld, VCU's Chen, Matthew Johnson, Johnson, Barry Eidlin Organizations: Service, Dartmouth men's, Harvard, SEIU Local, National Labor Relations Board, Dartmouth, NLRB, Business, US, UAW, Hollywood, Kaiser Permanente, Virginia Commonwealth University, Washington University, NCAA, Northwestern football, Northwestern, Big, Associated Press, University of Southern, —, USA, Duke University, McGill University Locations: Dartmouth, St, University of Southern California, Angeles, Montreal

☆ Duke's 3-year fraud investigation into Dan Ariely has ended, and the star professor still has a job. Does he want it?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-22 | by ( Kate Taylor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

For years, the Duke professor Dan Ariely was at the top of his game. Three professors behind the blog Data Colada reported evidence of fake data in a 2012 paper Ariely coauthored on honesty pledges. "When people do take a risk and they succeed, everybody enjoys it," Ariely told BI. In 2010, Ariely told NPR that two dentists examining the same teeth for cavities would agree only 50% of the time, citing research from Delta Dental. While the board originally said it would "unanimously stand in support of President Gay," Gay stepped down in early January in response to the backlash.

Persons: Dan Ariely, Dan Ariely's, Jesse L, Martin, Ariely, Duke, sniffed, they'd, James B, —, they're, Francesca Gino, Ariely's, Marc Tessier Lavigne, Claudine Gay, Prince Andrew ., he's, Brad Swain, He's, Gordon Pennycook, Sean Gallup, Nick Brown, who's, Michael Sanders, who'd, Sanders, Gino, Aimee Drolet Rossi, Rossi, she'd, Amir, wasn't, hasn't, I've, haven't, isn't, would've, Claudine Gay's, Andrew Lichtenstein, Bill Ackman, Gay, Harvard, doesn't, Gay should've, Brown, Cornell Watson, who've, wouldn't Organizations: Google, NBC, UCLA, Duke, Business, Harvard Business, TED, Irrational, Cornell, Getty, Burda, King's College London, New York Times, NPR, Delta Dental, Higher Education, Hartford, Ariely, Harvard, University, Universities, BI, Colorado's, King's College Locations: Buckingham Palace, British, Hartford, Gaza, Montana

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Students occupying a law school during an exam period as a protest against government plans to allow private universities were removed from the building by police in northern Greece. A police statement said that the operation followed a request for assistance from university authorities in the town of Komotini. It said the protesters staging the occupation in the law school had prevented about 400 students due to take exams on Monday from entering the building, as well as university staff. The center-right government wants to legalize privately-run universities in a bill that is due to go before parliament this month. Leftist groups and students across Greece have staged a series of building occupations — preventing lectures and exams — and protests against the reform, some of which have turned violent.

Organizations: — Locations: THESSALONIKI, Greece, Komotini, Thessaloniki

☆ The mystery of Chipotle's 'burrito season,' solved
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Emily Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Once again, Chipotle is staffing up ahead of " burrito season ." And once again, the people are asking: "What the hell is burrito season?" Burrito season, the company says, represents its busiest time of the year. When I asked a spokesperson for Chipotle to shed some light on the mysteries of burrito season, her answer was both straightforward and perplexing. But after confirming the existence of burrito season, I was still left with two big questions.

Persons: Chipotle, chow, —, Kyle Murray, Justin Seitzler, Seitzler, Emily Stewart Organizations: Cinco de Mayo, CFRA Research, Bureau of Labor Statistics, University of Alberta, Hamptons, Business Locations: Cinco, burritos, Chipotle, El, New York

☆ With Aid Stalled, Ukraine Scrambles to Make Ends Meet
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-31 | by ( Andrew E. Kramer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Strapped for cash as well as personnel and equipment for its war against Russia, Ukraine’s government says it has cobbled together financing to last several months without long-stalled aid from the United States and Europe. But further delays would trigger an all-but-certain economic crisis, officials and analysts say. Museums and theaters — as well as government research institutes and universities — could be forced to shut their doors. Restaurants, department stores and a host of other businesses currently remain open in Ukrainian cities away from the front line. But without enough financial aid, the ripple effects would quickly be felt across the economy, as the government runs out of cash to support a wide range of people and institutions.

Persons: Ukraine’s Locations: Russia, United States, Europe

☆ Yale, Duke and Columbia Among Elite Schools to Settle in Price-Fixing Case
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Alan Blinder | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For almost a quarter of a century, a coterie of the nation’s most elite universities had a legal shield: They would be exempt from federal antitrust laws when they shared formulas to measure prospective students’ financial needs. But the provision included a crucial requirement: that the cooperating universities’ admissions processes be “need-blind,” meaning they could not factor in whether a prospective student was wealthy enough to pay. But a court filing on Tuesday night revealed that five of those universities — Brown, Columbia, Duke, Emory and Yale — have collectively agreed to pay $104.5 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of, in fact, weighing financial ability when they deliberated over the fates of some applicants. Although the universities did not admit wrongdoing and resisted accusations that their approach had hurt students, the settlements nevertheless call into question whether the schools, which spent years extolling the generosity of their financial aid, did as much as they could to lower tuition.

Persons: — Brown, Yale — Organizations: Duke, Emory, Yale Locations: Columbia

In testimony before a House committee, the university leaders said there was a fine line between protecting free speech and allowing protests, while also combatting antisemitism. “Harvard must provide firm leadership in the fight against antisemitism and hate speech even while preserving room for free expression and dissent. This is difficult work, and I admit that we have not always gotten it right,” said Claudine Gay, of Harvard. In recent weeks, the federal government has opened investigations into several universities — including Penn and Harvard — regarding antisemitism and Islamophobia on campus. Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia, the committee's ranking Democrat, criticized Republicans for “stoking culture wars” while claiming to be combatting discrimination on campus.

Persons: “, ”, Claudine Gay, ” Gay, Liz Magill, Sally Kornbluth, ” Magill, Virginia Foxx, Bobby Scott of Virginia, Scott Organizations: WASHINGTON, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “ Harvard, Penn, MIT, The Education Department, Education, Workforce, intersectionality, ” Rep, Republicans, Education Department, Civil, “, Associated Press, Carnegie Corporation of New, AP Locations: Israel, North Carolina, Carnegie Corporation of New York

☆ I'm a 24-year-old straight-A student who has been obsessed with buses since childhood. I skipped college to work my dream job.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The straight-A student said it's a misconception that working with buses is a dead-end job. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Matthew Tay, an operations supervisor in Singapore for Tower Transit, a local bus company. When I was older, I joined a 400-member Facebook group called "Singapore bus enthusiasts." Now I'm the behind-the-scenes guy who keeps things runningAs an operations supervisor, I work in shifts. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs an operations supervisor, I'm comfortable with the salary I make and don't feel like I'm under financial pressure.

Persons: acceptances, Matthew Tay, —, I've, Singapore Management University —, It's, Tay, Transit Matthew Tay, I'm Organizations: Service, Tower Transit, Facebook, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Management University, Transit Locations: Singapore, Hougang, Tuas, Tower Transit Singapore, there's

☆ Opinion | Hamas and the Moral Failure of Our Institutions of Higher Learning
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Ezekiel J. Emanuel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But ethics classes alone are insufficient to help students develop a clear moral compass so that they can rise above ideological catchphrases and wrestle intelligently with moral dilemmas. Instead, colleges and universities need to be more self-critical and rethink what it means for students to be educated. At the same time, academia has become more hesitant: We often avoid challenging our students, avoid putting hard questions to them, avoid forcing them to articulate and justify their opinions. This flies in the face of what a “liberal education” should be. Liberal education should be built around honing critical thinking skills and moral and logical reasoning so students can emerge as engaged citizens.

Persons: Georgetown —, ” M.I.T, “, ” Organizations: Georgetown, Liberal, The American Association of Colleges, Universities

☆ Student-loan borrowers have a new safeguard in place to ensure their debt doesn't pile up once they graduate
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Education Department released its final version of the gainful employment rule. AdvertisementAdvertisementPresident Joe Biden's Education Department has released its final rule to keep student debt from spiraling after a borrower graduates. On Wednesday, the Education Department announced its final version of the gainful employment rule. However, advocates and Democratic lawmakers have previously pushed for a strengthened gainful employment rule to protect borrowers. This includes the most effective gainful employment rule in history," Cardona said.

Persons: —, Joe Biden's, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Education James Kvaal, Jason Altmire, Altmire, Aaron Ament, Miguel Cardona, " Cardona Organizations: Education Department, Service, Joe Biden's Education Department, Education, Education Colleges, Universities —, Department, Democratic, Student Defense

Everything will change in 2026, when USF opens a $340 million, 35,000-seat stadium of its own on the eastern edge of the Tampa campus, university officials say. The University of Florida, Florida State University and the University of Miami, which is private, have all won multiple national championships. And UCF has an on-campus stadium known as the “Bounce House.” USF officials say it's a worthwhile investment for them as well. School officials estimate about $20.5 million in revenue will be generated the first year the on-campus stadium is in operation. “This is where the first drops of blood, sweat and tears for USF football were played.

Persons: Raymond James, They've, Michael Kelly, “ It's, “, ”, Jenifer Jasinski Schneider, Ben Braver, he's, ” Braver, They're, We've, Richard Sobieray, Alex Golesh, Golesh, Donovan Jennings, ” Jennings, ” Kelly, Raymond James Stadium, James, Kelly Organizations: University of South Florida, Bulls, Tampa, USF, Raymond, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, ” Athletic, Trust Fund, of American Universities, Faculty Senate, University of Florida, Florida State University, University of Miami, University of Central, American Athletic Conference, Western, Alabama, School, UCF, ” USF, University of Tennessee, Buccaneers Locations: TAMPA, Fla, Tampa, school’s, Florida, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Western Kentucky, USF's, Sycamore

☆ I was told I'd never get into Yale because of Asian American prejudice, but I beat the odds and got in. Now I teach other students how to get into their dream schools.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Christopher Rim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

My counselor told me it would be difficult to get into Yale because of Asian American prejudice. As an Asian American student with a 3.7 unweighted GPA, he said, I had no chance of getting into such a prestigious university. But for myself and fellow Asian American applicants, it was an ever-present obstacle to overcome. At every turn, I was reminded that I was competing against other, more-qualified Asian American students and that I was fighting to defy rampant stereotypes. Everyone around me told me that this was a nearly impossible accomplishment as an Asian American student, especially one with my grades.

Persons: —, I've Organizations: Yale, Service, Yale University, Asian, Ivy League, Stanford, Dartmouth Locations: Wall, Silicon, American

☆ Biden's efforts to make it easier for defrauded student-loan borrowers to get debt relief were blocked by a conservative court
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-07 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Fifth Circuit blocked Biden's new rules to ease the debt relief process for defrauded borrowers. The changes to borrower defense are now blocked as the legal process plays out. The rules would create a more streamlined application process for borrowers seeking debt relief, along with expanding the types of misconduct that would qualify a borrower for a loan discharge. "Defrauded borrowers are legally entitled to relief and their institutions should be held accountable," he said. For now, the department's new rules for borrower defense will be blocked as the legal process proceeds.

Persons: Joe Biden's, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump —, CCST, Aaron Ament, Jason Altmire, — Organizations: Circuit, Service, Fifth Circuit, Colleges, Schools of Texas, Education Department, The Education Department, Student Defense, Education Colleges, Universities — Locations: Wall, Silicon

About the role familial connections played in the success of many alumni. About whether the practice of legacy admissions, which has long favored white families, should be eliminated just as a more diverse generation of graduates is getting ready to send its own children to college. About how to reconcile the belief that privileges for the privileged are wrong with the parental impulse to do whatever they can for their own children. A new analysis of data from elite colleges published last week underscored how legacy admissions have effectively served as affirmative action for the privileged. Children of alumni, who are more likely to come from rich families, were nearly four times as likely to be admitted as other applicants with the same test scores.

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☆ I'm a college expert, and the biggest mistake I see students make is not negotiating their financial aid offer. Here's how to do it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Kate Colbert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Affordability often comes down to how extensive a student's financial-aid offers are — including grants and scholarships. But I'm a college-education expert and one of the authors of "Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education," and I've seen countless students negotiate a higher deal. If you're an incoming freshman, you have every right to go back to the college or university and renegotiate your financial-aid offer. That's the tuition price listed on the school's website. That means a $40,000 tuition price tag often gets reduced to $18,200, but only if you ask for it.

Persons: you've, You've, I'm, They'll, it's Organizations: Service, Higher, ACT, KFC, CVS, PepsiCo, Intel, Meijer Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Student Loan Repayments Are Dwindling - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Laura Beamer | Marshall Steinbaum | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

2013 was the first year when over half of all student loans carried a balance greater than originally borrowed. The 2020 student loan repayment pause shook up this unhealthy dynamic. But student loan repayment had been dwindling for at least a decade before the pause. But an important additional source of student loan misery is the widening and diversifying nature of the Americans who take them out. Our student debt research uses credit reports, both from an annual, representative cross-section of student borrowers and from a single group of borrowers we’ve been following since 2009.

Persons: couldn’t, Laura Beamer, Marshall Steinbaum, doesn’t, It’s, —, Biden, we’ve, they’re, “, Bill, ’ Organizations: Jain, Institute, University of Utah, White, American, Black, Women, Congress, Department of Education

☆ High levels of a hazardous chemical polluted the air weeks after the Ohio train derailment, an analysis shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Aria Bendix | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

General view of the site of the derailment of a train carrying hazardous waste, in East Palestine, Ohio, March 2, 2023. Soon after the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, a team of researchers began roving the small town in a Nissan van. Longer-term exposure to concentrations of acrolein at the detected levels may be a health concern, the researchers wrote. Low levels of exposure to acrolein are associated with slow breathing and burning in the nose and the throat. The levels of vinyl chloride that were detected, meanwhile, were below the Environmental Protection Agency's threshold for long-term risks.

Persons: Albert Presto, acrolein Organizations: Norfolk, Carnegie Mellon, Texas, Science, Technology Locations: East Palestine , Ohio, Norfolk Southern, Nissan

Finding it and nurturing it remain entirely consistent with the mission of higher education and, indeed, vital to our democracy. More than in any other setting, students who are raised in homogenous neighborhoods and schools first encounter difference — class, racial, ethnic and religious — in college. We should remember that these sorts of learning opportunities are relatively new in the history of higher education. For hundreds of years, many universities that today proudly champion a diverse society promoted and perpetuated class, racial and gender hierarchies. Like Bard College, schools could create early college programs, which allow high school students to take and earn college credits.

Persons: —, I’ve, William, Mary, Johns Hopkins, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.N.C, LaDale C, Brett Kavanaugh’s, Angela Duckworth Organizations: Ivy League, Yale Law School, Brown University, University of Virginia, Rutgers, Princeton Theological Seminary , Yale, University of North, Harvard, Bard College, University of California Locations: Georgetown, University of North Carolina, America

☆ A day in the life of a millennial freelancer who says the UK's corporate drinking culture pushed her to work for herself and prioritize work-life balance
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Her first experience with an office job gave her the impression that British work culture wasn't for her. Here's how she navigates British work life and personal development as a freelancer. Loading Something is loading. But with her first internship, she began to realize her impression of British work culture wasn't for her. Here's a day in her life as a millennial living in London:

Persons: Leonie Annor, wasn't, —, Owiredu, she'd, Here's Organizations: Service, Russell Group, Ivy League, — Locations: London, England

☆ Biden's Education Department just released its 'strongest-ever' plan to ensure student-loan borrowers don't graduate with unaffordable debt
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The Education Department released its new proposal for a strengthened gainful employment rule. The rule would place safeguards for borrowers to ensure they don't take on more student debt than they can afford. "Ever since the Trump Administration illegally repealed the 2014 Gainful Employment rule, students have been left unprotected from predatory higher ed profiteers," Ament said. The gainful employment rule has drawn criticism from for-profit schools in the past who have argued that they were being targeted by the strengthened regulations. Democratic lawmakers have previously pushed for a strengthened gainful employment rule.

☆ George Santos tricked supporters into giving him money that he spent on designer clothes and credit card payments, feds allege
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors allege embattled GOP Rep. George Santos tricked supporters into sending tens of thousands of dollars. After receiving the money, prosecutors said Santos spent thousands of dollars on designer clothes and credit card payments. Instead, Santos spent "thousands of dollars of the solicited funds on personal expenses, including luxury designer clothing and credit card payments," prosecutors allege in the indictment. Santos 2024In April, prior to being charged in New York, Santos announced his plan to run for a second term in office. This is about TAKING BACK our country and restoring greatness back to New York," Santos tweeted.

☆ The cost of college room and board is rising even faster than tuition. It's driving students into even more debt.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Madison Hall | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In many public universities, the cost of room and board has risen faster than the cost of tuition. Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, Insider documented the reported tuition and room and board costs from ten public universities from 2012-2013 versus the 2022-2023 academic year. The data matches a trend that the College Board found, which noted that between 2009 and around 2014, the cost of room and board rose by more than 20 percent. Paying more for room and board leads to more debtAs students are forced to pay even more for room and board, they're often putting themselves into increasingly more debt. The sticker price of tuition, room, and board, however, isn't what it seems once interest is factored in.

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