(New York Times) Erica L. Green. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, who made a career of promoting local control of education, has signaled a surprisingly hard-line approach to carrying out an expansive new federal education law, issuing critical feedback that has rattled state school chiefs and conservative education experts alike. President Barack Obama signed the […]
Read More »(Washington Post) by Susan Svrluga. After President Trump announced a temporary travel ban in January, academic leaders were swift to condemn it, and to warn that it would shut out some of the world’s most talented scholars. [Nearly 600 colleges object to Trump’s travel ban] But a national study of admissions officers found that, at […]
Read More »(Daily Californian) by Audrey McNamara. The University of California released fall 2017 admission data today. The data reflects a 1.7 percent drop in California resident admission. Due to last year’s abnormally large in-state class — adding an additional 7,500 in-state students, the university is still on track to meet its goal of adding 10,000 California students by […]
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