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State law likely conflicts with DeVos's Title IX proposal 13 Dec 2018

Three years ago, Kevin Kruger, head of the country’s association for student affairs professionals, wrote to The Washington Post over his concerns with new state laws around campus sexual assaults. At the time, states such as California and New York were responding to the same pressures that led to the Obama administration’s efforts to crack down on sexual v […]

Jeremy Bauer-Wolf

Colleges add new academic programs 13 Dec 2018

California State University Los Angeles is starting a doctor of audiology program. Daemen College is starting an online master of social work program. Mount St. Mary's University, in California, is starting a doctor of psychology program. Purdue University is starting a professional master's program in innovative technologies. University of Illinoi […]

Scott Jaschik

Author discusses his new book about going to college in the '60s 13 Dec 2018

The cover of Going to College in the Sixties (Johns Hopkins University Press) features a photograph of a protest at the University of California, Berkeley. Among the photographs in the book that might have been more emblematic of the book’s contents was the one at right promoting a film, Tall Story, that starred a (pre-radical days) Jane Fonda and Anthony Pe […]

Scott Jaschik

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