Colleges need to prepare diversity strategies now for the day when the Supreme Court outlaws race-conscious admissions … When President Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court, it seemed… Read more »
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Compensating NCAA Student Athletes: How to Navigate Name, Image and Likeness Laws
The NCAA student-athlete compensation rules have changed. That change will have consequences, both intended and unintended. Of course, as with any material change involving big-money sports, bigger-money commercial opportunities, popular… Read more »
In Massachusetts, an Early Ed Exit
Comings and Goings … Massachusetts Early Education and Care Commissioner Samantha Aigner-Treworgy resigned from the post where she led the process of opening emergency childcare during the early days of… Read more »
The Ghost of Affirmative Action Past: Courage in the Bully Pulpit at Dartmouth
The Supreme Court is taking up affirmative action at colleges and universities for the sixth time in 50 years. In that litany, an early case was the University of California… Read more »
Food for Thought: A New Way to Measure “Farm-to-Campus” Operations
In January 2022, Farm to Institution New England (FINE) will launch the New England Farm and Sea to Campus Data Center, a new system for collecting, measuring and reporting farm-to-campus… Read more »
Why We Can’t Measure What Matters Most in Education
What do students learn in school? In the 21st century, this question has become a political dilemma for countries around the globe. It is a deceptively simple question, but there… Read more »
Moment of Truth (Books)
Book Review What Universities Owe Democracy; Ronald J. Daniels with Grant Shreve and Phillip Spector; Johns Hopkins University Press; Baltimore; 2021. Reviewed by George McCully When the president of a… Read more »
Reconciliation Package Likely to Include Early Childhood Provisions, Drop Free Community College
DC Shuttle … Hearings & Markups of Interest (Due to current limited access to the U.S. Capitol complex, the general public is encouraged to view these hearings via live stream.)… Read more »
Squirreling Away Some Thoughts as Summer Turns to Autumn
Tidbits from the NEJHE Beat … Population studies. The population counts provided by the decennial U.S. census shape congressional and state legislative districts and offer a telling picture of America’s… Read more »
Say Their Names
Higher ed has always operated in a very cyclical nature. If we look at historical movements on college campuses, including protests in favor of desegregation in the 1960s, higher ed… Read more »