March 2009 - Posts

• New Rules for Program in GI Bill Seek to Ease Colleges' Concerns

  The "yellow-ribbon program" seeks to help veterans attend private colleges or graduate schools whose costs are higher than the benefits provided under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• House Moves to Postpone PLUS Loan Auction, Help Borrowers Escape Default

  The economics of student lending have changed significantly since Congress created the auction pilot program in 2007. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Court Broadly Defines Job-Related Speech in Upholding Delaware Professor's Dismissal

  A federal appeals court ruled that a public-college professor's statements can be considered job-related, and thus not "citizen speech" protected by the First Amendment, even if they were made in connection with activities not specifically... Posted Mar 30 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Economic Downturn Limits Conference Travel

  The recession is having a big impact, with attendance down at many academic and professional meetings, and next year is expected to be even worse. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Universities Sue Accreditor for Putting Their Pharmacy Programs on Probation

  Recent lawsuits filed by two universities against an accrediting organization said that the group did not follow proper procedures when it put their programs on probation. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Forced to Downsize, Cal State Campuses Reject Thousands of Eligible Student

  Faced with severe budget cuts and an increase in applications for this fall, nearly half of California State University's 23 campuses may have no choice but to turn away students who would normally be promised admission. Read More... Posted Mar 27 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• House Takes First Step Toward Ending Bank-Based Lending

  The chamber's spending blueprint for 2010 would make financing of the Pell Grant program mandatory and ease passage of President Obama's plan to abolish the guaranteed-student-loan program. Read More... Posted Mar 26 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Campus Medical-Review Boards Often Fail to Police Themselves, Survey Finds

  A third of institutional review boards that participated in a survey did not require members to disclose any financial relationships with outside companies, a journal article reports. Read More... Posted Mar 26 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Economy May Be Beginning to Affect Study-Abroad Numbers

  More than half of the colleges and outside education-abroad providers who responded to a survey said applications to summer overseas-study programs had declined from the previous year. Read More... Posted Mar 26 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Critics Challenge Diversity Language in Virginia Tech's Tenure Policy

  Faculty members in one of the university's largest colleges are asked to list activities related to diversity in bids for tenure and promotion. Some groups say that amounts to a "loyalty oath." Read More... Posted Mar 26 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• States' Prepaid-Tuition Plans Get Squeezed

  A prepaid-tuition plan in Alabama doesn't have enough money to meet its future obligations, and several other states are modifying their plans to keep them sound in spite of the recession. Read More... Posted Mar 25 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Universities Are Wary of Drawbacks to a Huge Boost in Federal Spending

  Several university presidents and higher-education officials went to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to thank lawmakers for committing more funds for scientific research, but they worried about what might happen to their budgets if that commitment didn't... Posted Mar 25 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Foreign Graduates Lose Job Offers Over Stimulus Rules

  Companies that received stimulus money have had to rescind job offers to college graduates from overseas, causing business-school deans to worry that the new restrictions could hurt their ability to attract foreign students. Read More... Posted Mar 24 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• Asian-American Lawmakers Pressure U. of California Over New Admissions Policy

  The lawmakers, who say the plan was adopted without sufficient study of how specific ethnic groups would be affected, have scheduled a hearing on the issue next week. Read More... Posted Mar 24 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News

• At Cambridge, Darwin's Natural Selection Was Comfort, Ledgers Show

  Recently discovered records of bills from Darwin's student days reveal that one of history's biggest thinkers was also something of a big spender. Read More... Posted Mar 23 2009, 08:00 AM by Chronicle.com - Today's News