Higher Education Act passes House- March 31, 2006 TheThe Chronicle of Higher Education has a good article on the House's efforts to renew the Higher Education Act. McKeon acknowledged that he had to compromise on several controversial provisions to obtain passage. The compromise impacted provisions designed to limit or control tuition increases, regulate how credits are transferred among institutions and allow states to accredit higher-education institutions.http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/higher-education-act-passes-house.html Blogs and Web Activity over College Admissions- March 31, 2006 Very interesting New York Times article. The article mentions collegeconfidential.com and mycollegecounselor.com.http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/blogs-and-web-activity-over-college.html So does this mean we have a walk today- March 27, 2006 USC has put a business school instructor on leave after his arrest on fraud charges. According to court documents, the instructor recruited students to work on his real estate scheme "to sell investments through a real estate company he ran, which he said had the rights to valuable property in Chicago and Las Vegas." Inside Higher Ed. The students became suspicious after the promised payouts on their and family member's investments were not received from the instructor.http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/so-does-this-mean-we-have-walk-today.html College Presidents- March 23, 2006 USA Today has an article on issues impacting college presidents and discusses recent changes at Harvard (Summers), University of Kentucky (Todd) and Baylor (Lilley).http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/college-presidents.html Adware Marketers Settle Class Lawsuit- March 22, 2006 Direct Revenue LLC and The Best Offers Network LLC agreed to change their business practices and obtain consumers' prior express consent for the downloading of adware programs. Direct Revenue also agreed to provide an easy mechanism to remove its software after download. According to BNA's Privacy & Security Law Report (subscription required) this is one of the first class action lawsuits aimed at the adware marketers. The settlement also requires the defendants to refrain from modifying the...http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/adware-marketers-settle-class-lawsuit.html Princeton Police do an about face on Facebook- March 15, 2006 A week after acknowledging that facebook.com was an "effective tool" for investigations, the Princeton Department of Public Safety has agreed to only use the site as a "supplementary source for investigations" but will not "scour" the site for parties or other activities. Officers are also prohibited from identifying themselves as students in their Facebook accounts.The Daily Princetonianhttp://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/princeton-police-do-about-face-on.html Colleges Expand Scholarship Eligibility- March 14, 2006 The New York Times reports on recent activity by colleges and universities to allow nonminorities and men to access fellowships, scholarships and other programs previously set aside for minorities and women. This is on the heels of last month's consent decree between Southern Illinois University and the Department of Justice opening graduate fellowships at SIU to nonminorities and men.http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/colleges-expand-scholarship.html High Court Affirms Solomon Amendment- March 13, 2006 The United States Supreme Court rejected arguments from a coalition of law schools that colleges and universities have a First Amendment right to prevent recruiters from coming on campus when the recruiting organization fails to adhere to the antidiscrimination policies of the educational institution. Kent Greenfield, a law professor at Boston College, told the Chronicle that he was encourage by the opinion's affirmation that law schools have the right to protest the presence of military...http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/high-court-affirms-solomon-amendment.html High Schools Withhold Class Ranking- March 13, 2006 Here is an interesting NY Times article about High Schools that are withholding class rank data in order to help their very good (but not the best) students get in to college. "Now nearly 40% of all high schools have either stopped ranking their students or have ceased giving that information to colleges."http://univatty.blogspot.com/2006/03/high-schools-withhold-class-ranking.html |