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The president of Florida A & M University has suspended all student groups on campus from recruiting new members until the completion of a safety investigation. The ban comes in the wake of the murder of a student who may have been involved in hazing:
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After President Barack Obama’s run for re-election ends in November, the President’s top strategist David Axelrod will be setting his sights on academic pursuits, directing a non-partisan Institute of Politics at his alma mater, The University of Chicago.
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More details on the juiced-up SAT scores at Claremont McKenna College have emerged: The new, corrected numbers demonstrate a roughly flat trajectory of SAT scores in both the Critical Reading and Math sections. The old, manipulated numbers showed a clear upward trajectory in both mean and median scores. Critical Reading scores were artificially increased by an average of more than 17 points, a greater amount than Math scores, which were increased by an average of only 10.5 points... More
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Kenneth Marcus of Baruch College writes that, despite setbacks, support from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has led to some positives signs in the battle against anti-Semitism on college campuses... More
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Some higher ed experts have wondered whether American universities will ever see a large drop-off in college attendance, given skyrocketing tuition rates and mounting evidence that a degree isn't necessarily indicative of intelligence (to say nothing of the thousands of graduates doing jobs that don't require degrees).
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University presidents and administrators aren't taking kindly to this threat.