Schools and universities are more and more including menstrual product dispensers to loos throughout campus to enhance pupil well being and wellness. image alliance/Getty Pictures When addressing fundamental wants, most faculties and universities search to accommodate college students with meals, housing and funds for utilities, typically extending into clothes and private hygiene merchandise. Menstrual merchandise,…
tattywelshie/e+/Getty Pictures Earlier this 12 months, President Biden proposed a 10 p.c improve to the Pell Grant to carry the utmost annual award to $8,145. The proposal marks the most recent step towards the federal authorities’s objective of doubling Pell by 2029—a transfer that displays a broader effort by policymakers to extend school affordability. Whereas appreciable…
Orientation for brand spanking new commuter college students might help join learners to assets and deal with challenges they might face whereas enrolled. SmithCollection/Gad/Getty Photographs Knowledge from the newest Nationwide Postsecondary Scholar Assist Research discovered solely 15.6 p.c of all undergraduate college students reside on campus, and solely 12.9 p.c of all first-year college students reside on…
A circuit court docket decide has rejected requests by the New Faculty of Florida Board of Trustees and the State College of Florida Board of Governors to dismiss a lawsuit difficult a regulation limiting arbitration in college employment disputes, the Information Service of Florida reported. The state regulation, handed final 12 months, bars college members…
First-year retention is a crucial metric in scholar success, significantly amongst college students at a two-year establishment. A method faculties and universities encourage retention amongst new college students is thru selling emotions of belonging and connection to the establishment and their friends. Saddleback School in California launched a collegewide peer mentorship program in 2021 centered…
Northwestern School, a for-profit establishment in Illinois that closed abruptly final week, has been accused of mendacity to college students about switch agreements that don’t exist, native media reported. In an e mail obtained by WGN9, Northwestern School officers informed college students it had “recognized a number of establishments which have comparable educational applications and…
Michigan excessive schoolers will be capable to attend a local people school with out paying tuition beginning subsequent fall. The Michigan Legislature authorized funding for the brand new plan, which permits highschool graduates to earn an affiliate’s diploma or certificates at an in-district neighborhood school, final month as a part of the state’s $19 billion college…
Drake College and Des Moines Space Neighborhood School are locked in a authorized battle over the letter “D.” The neighborhood faculty rebranded final yr, altering its emblem to a easy, block-style “D.” Drake, a close-by non-public college, additionally makes use of the letter as its emblem and took difficulty with the shift. Drake College sued…
Leaders at Georgia State reimagined their switch pupil processes to assist retention and commencement of switch and transition college students. Switch could be a complicated course of for the coed, much more so if the establishment isn’t ready to offer clear, direct and well timed assist. At Georgia State College, directors and researchers on the…
In his new guide, Mindset Issues: The Energy of School to Activate Lifelong Progress (Johns Hopkins College Press), Daniel Porterfield, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, in addition to a former president of Franklin & Marshall School, argues that larger ed establishments ought to try for a brand new objective: pushing college students to…
Greater than 100 instructors at Entrance Vary Group Faculty have needed to wait for his or her summer time paychecks, in keeping with The Colorado Solar. It’s the most recent in a string of payroll lags from the school, which has campuses in Longmont, Westminster and Fort Collins. Because of the most recent delay, some…
Cascading bulletins reporting on the appointments of recent presidents, provosts and deans have begun in earnest and can proceed for months to return. As this 12 months has demonstrated, such positions are more difficult than ever earlier than, and faculty and college leaders want all the assistance they will get to land and launch effectively…