Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Persistent suckage

Thinking real hard
DeVos Outlines ‘Rethinking’ of Higher Education
(Inside Higher Ed)
Secretary and Education Department officials today outline plans for looming accreditation reform negotiation, describing focus on credit transfer and credential inflation.
In a meeting with college presidents and association officials Wednesday morning, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos planned to outline principles for her plan to revamp higher education rules, with a focus on accreditation.
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The department described its priorities in two white papers released Wednesday -- on rethinking higher ed generally and on accreditation reform….
Unwelcome Guest
(Inside Higher Ed)
You a hooker?
Students at Northwestern want controversial visiting scholar who muses on race, intelligence and beauty, and who has been accused by colleagues of "bad science," off their campus.
Are All Women Essentially Prostitutes?” “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” and “What’s Wrong With Muslims?” Those titles may read like some of Reddit’s worst hits. But they’re real articles written by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist and reader in management at the London School of Economics and Political Science -- and current guest scholar at Northwestern University….

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