Tag: Legal

January 12, 2022

Some solutions include balancing the supply chain and providing emergency funding to help school meal programs return to a profitable model, said Elizabeth Campbell, a registered dietitian and senior director of legislative and government affairs for the Academy of Nutrition […]

May 26, 2021

Higher ed appropriations per FTE student increased in 41 states and Washington, D.C. in fiscal 2020. Despite a steady increase in state support, inflation-adjusted appropriations are still 6% below levels seen in 2008. States have been recovering at different rates. […]

March 19, 2021

Former President Donald Trump signed the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act in late December, making available roughly $23 billion in postsecondary education aid. This followed $14 billion in the first round of higher education relief. Higher ed groups […]

December 2, 2020

Legal experts said the changes could have hurt colleges’ ability to recruit international students by limiting foreign workers’ employment opportunities in the U.S. Already, international student enrollment in the country is lagging. The number of foreign students fell for the […]

June 30, 2020

The opinion is likely welcome news for the president, coming less than a week after the court ruled June 18 that his administration’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program was mishandled, leaving the policy in place […]

February 20, 2019

While a school’s primary goal is to educate students, another priority is providing a safe environment. It’s a responsibility enforced in federal, state and local laws, but ultimately, students can — and do — get hurt. And when they do, […]

March 14, 2016

According to a Chronicle analysis of data released on Friday, 160 degree-granting private colleges failed the U.S. Education Department’s financial-responsibility test, which seeks to quantify the financial health of proprietary and nonprofit institutions, for the 2013-14 academic year. That’s two […]

March 4, 2016

Facing a $7-million budget deficit, John A. Logan College’s Board of Trustees approved 55 faculty and staff layoffs on Wednesday. The decision, passed 7 to 1, followed four hours of deliberation and more than 30 testimonials from the hundreds of […]

February 24, 2016

A budget proposal unveiled by a senior Missouri legislator on Tuesday would strip the salaries of Melissa A. Click, the communication professor suspendedafter she was charged with assault for her role in an altercation at a campus protest, and two […]

February 19, 2016

The University of Missouri at Columbia announced on Thursday that it hadreinstated Patrice Delafontaine as dean of the School of Medicine, effective immediately. Dr. Delafontaine’s sudden resignation in September was among the incidents that contributed to a loss of confidence […]