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With higher ed in crisis, the lack of financial oversight is glaring

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Government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures, but the oversight is often weak or too late. In theory, government agencies and accrediting bodies have safeguards to protect students from such abrupt college closures. Credit: Yvonne Mendez. They could have warned us.”.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

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“No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. No one was considering the psychological toll each reopening plan would take on students,” she said. I’m taking a government course so I can graduate, and it’s not offered. Credit: Chloe Pressley.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

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Residents say the federal government has been slow to respond, and with so much rental housing destroyed , housing options are limited. In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children.

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Amid Campus Mental Health Crisis, Students Work to Support Each Other

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So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia. The commission covered the training fee, making it free to participate.

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Consumers get more information about a purchase they once made on trust: college

The Hechinger Report

It’s the APLU that has most forcefully pushed for tracking individual students through college, which is known as student-unit recordkeeping, and which would make the statistics vastly more precise, but which Congress — lobbied by higher-education groups — banned the government from doing in 2008. Now AIR, the U.S.

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 Amid clampdown on DEI, some on campuses push back

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We are fighting over whether or not political parties that are in control of state government, in control of Congress, can control higher education,” Cantwell said. he said, noting that fields like literature, anthropology and psychology also grapple with issues of race, gender and sexuality. What’s next?”

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What’s the worst that could happen under New Ed Secretary Betsy DeVos? Some Scenarios

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” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Related: President Elect Trump selects Betsy DeVos as new education secretary, ushering in a new era.