Three-Year Degrees in Massachusetts: State Board of Higher Education Considers Draft Rules

Three-Year Degrees in Massachusetts: State Board of Higher Education Considers Draft Rules

Sam Drysdale

State House News Service

The issue of whether to allow colleges and universities in Massachusetts to offer three-year bachelor's degrees, reducing the typical 120-credit requirement, continues to raise questions among members of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.

It Shouldn’t Take Two Years To Teach Vermont Officials A Lesson About Religious Freedom, Even In The Transgender Era
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It Shouldn’t Take Two Years To Teach Vermont Officials A Lesson About Religious Freedom, Even In The Transgender Era

NBP Editorial Board

“Obviously Mid Vermont is unhappy with the outcome. The court accepts without reservation the sincerity of the school's commitment to traditional views of gender and sexuality.”

 -- Judge Geoffrey Crawford, U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, opinion denying of Mid Vermont Christian School’s motion for a temporary injunction, June 11, 2024

“… whether someone truly has a sexual identity that's different from their sex that they're assigned at their birth …”

-- Unidentified judge from a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, oral arguments, Mid Christian Vermont School vs. Bouchey, Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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