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Barack Obama

Obama administration seeks Pell grant expansion

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration wants to expand the federal Pell grant program to help more students graduate from college — by providing them with money to attend classes year-round and reward them for taking more credits. Two new proposals, announced Tuesday by the Education Department, would expand the $29 billion

Boston University

The lowering of higher education

Colleges and universities have been in the news much of late. The news, however, has been strangely devoid of comment on high education's essential mission; engaging students in the world of ideas and getting them ready for their life's journey. Instead, the news reports are about

Harvard

Here’s what college students should be protesting

Everyone in America today seems frustrated with the status quo, especially college students who've recently made headlines protesting the racial climate on campus. Racial equality is a noble ideal, and protesters would do well to engage in a civil discussion of the issue. But there's another

activists

The fantasy of the safe space

"In politics," said Nietzsche, "the professor plays the comic role." There was a time, on American college campuses, when this may have been true. In the '70s and '80s, American academics were, indeed, like clowns – tenured radicals who fed their students a daily diet

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Asinine in academia

If anyone wonders why I often write about the antics that go on in academia, it's not merely because I've spent 25 years as an academic — and so I know the way the sausage is made. It is also because higher education in the United States

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Ole Miss removes Mississippi flag with Confederate emblem

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi has removed the state flag on its Oxford campus Monday morning because the banner contains the Confederate battle emblem, which some see as a painful reminder of slavery and segregation. Interim Chancellor Morris Stocks ordered the flag lowered and said it was being

Massachusetts

Keeping MCAS, but upping math standard seen as alternative

STATE HOUSE — Education Secretary James Peyser wrote an op-ed in September laying out the choice the state Board of Education faces in November in choosing between keeping the state's MCAS exam or adopting a new student assessment known as PARCC. But new research suggests a third option: continuing

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Meehan sees UMass law accreditation ‘within the next year’

Written by Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE — The University of Massachusetts School of Law should receive accreditation from the American Bar Association "within the next year," UMass President Martin Meehan said during a Sunday talk show appearance in which he laid out some of his Beacon Hill priorities.