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Education Department Revises Restrictions on Race Initiatives

Insight Into Diversity

Department of Education has modified its previous directives on race in hiring, scholarships, student programs, and other educational policies. Since coming into power, the new administration has focused on enforcing conservative legal principles in education, particularly regarding race and gender policies.

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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. The document's authors misrepresent the origins of progressive thought in education.

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When and how departments should make political statements

Inside Higher Ed

Departments as such should avoid statements on what we call here ‘external’ matters (state, national, or international policy matters),” the guidelines say. Those in the department with dissenting views should be able to express them in the same forum, the guidance also says. Departments vs. Individuals.

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UKCISA calls for more evidence-informed policies

The PIE News

“[Future strategy] must be developed across all relevant departments, including the Home Office” Working rights for international students in higher education should be standardised at 20 hours per week during their studies, the document added.

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Distance education via online learning may be in a for a huge shake-up due to this proposal

University Business

Institutions leveraging out-of-state online learning may face deeper state regulation constraints due to a proposal from the Department of Education. While experts concede how important it is to strengthen consumer protection, they also believe the Department’s attempt to strengthen state oversight is misguided.

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Report: Complaining to a higher ed accreditor is burdensome

Inside Higher Ed

Complaints typically come from students or employees who think their institution has violated an accreditation standard or policy. Among the seven, he ranked the policy for Southern Association of College and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) as the most burdensome.

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How will technology change education in the future?

HEPI

As an undergraduate in the early 1990s, I did not find the computer room in my Department until my very final week, when I stumbled upon it by accident and found a few international students communicating with their families back home. Change has generally been gradual but consistent.