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7/29/16
TechNews for the week: July 29; July 27; July 25;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
80 dead as IS claims twin blasts during Kabul protest; Terrorist attack on French church ignites fears of religious culture wars;
The Islamic State's main rival, al-Nusra, has just broken ties with al Qaeda;
Turkey to shut down dozens of media outlets;
Israeli expulsion law 'violates all rules of democracy';
IOC decides against complete ban on Russian team from Rio Olympics;
What cameras don't capture in viral videos of police shootings; experts examine 5 viral videos of police shootings;
Report: Wisconsin police officer had sex on the job 98 times; Charges dropped against officer who killed black man carrying air rifle;
Rauner vetoes construction-wage, homecare-worker pay bills; Campaign finance in Missouri goes from absurd to obscene;
Hillary Clinton picks Tim Kaine for VP; Clinton casts herself as steady hand in hard times; DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigns;
Russian hack of DNC widens including personal email of staffer researching Manafort; FBI probes suspected breach of another Democratic organization by Russian hackers;
Trump urges Russia to meddle in 2016 race by hacking Clinton emails; Why the Kremlin loves Donald Trump;
Federal judge rules Case against Trump University should move forward; Trump's long record of broken promises;
In 1927, Fox News Service filmed Benito Mussolini telling immigrants to 'make America great';
Fact-checking Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the 2016 RNC; Energized white supremacists cheer Trump convention message;
6 theories for why Trump won't release his tax returns; Report: Trump Ready To Invest Millions To End Cruz And Kasich's Careers;
Trump Says He Wanted to 'Hit a Couple of Speakers So Hard';
White people think racism is getting worse. Against white people;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Hacking the Financial System; The Security of Our Election Systems; The NSA and "Intelligence Legalism";
Russian Hack of the DNC; Snowden and WikiLeaks clash over leaked Democratic Party emails;
Snowden Designs iPhone Add-On To Thwart Surveillance; Detecting When a Smartphone Has Been Compromised;
Real-World Security and the Internet of Things; How Jihadists Use Privacy, Encryption Tools to Avoid Detection;
5 Common Phishing Attacks and 5 Ways Not to Get Hooked; Keysniffer' Attacks Let Hackers Intercept Wireless Keyboards;
Professor Helping Police Unlock Phone from Dead Victim's Fingerprints;
Math and science
How a guy from a Montana trailer park proved a 150-year-old idea in biology wrong;
Researchers Use Quantum Mechanics To Improve Computer Graphics; Researchers Create 3D Movie Screen Without Glasses;
How Altruism Might Have Evolved;
Curiosity Rover Gains Autonomous Laser Powers;
Web and computing issues
Quick Instagram tips and tricks; Get started with Snapchat; Live video has made Facebook the place to be;
Attack of the clones: How to vet App Store apps; Best free Android VPN;
Finance and Economics
U.S. economy grew at pace of 1.2 percent in second quarter;
Survey Indicates Laid-Off Energy Workers Found New Jobs, Won't Return.; Metal 3D Printing Revolutionizing Manufacturing;
Senior surprise: Getting switched with little warning into Medicare Advantage;
Companies are flooding Earth's orbit with satellites, but no one's directing traffic;
Despite Coal Power Plant Closures, Power Grid's Performance Remains Consistent; Company announces closure of Ohio coal-fired power plants;
Without Keystone XL, Canadian Crude Oil Export By Train Expected To Rise; Fracking Wastewater Disposal Likely Caused Dallas Quakes;
Administration Announces Plan To Start Regulating Airplane Pollution; Almost A Third Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production;
Utility Billing Changes Making Home Solar Less Attractive;
Verizon to buy Yahoo for $4.83 billion, merge it with AOL;
Other news
The Vanishing Big Thinker;
Education:
For Native Students, Education's Promise Has Long Been Broken; The Syllabus as a Contract;
Education Dept. Proposes Rules to Clarify State Oversight of Online Courses;
One Idea to Ease Faculty Into Retirement: the 'Terminal Sabbatical';
USA Today: Clinton's College Tuition Plan Costly, Unfair;
Many College Presidents Call Their Campuses a 'Family';
Judge Blocks Kentucky Governor's Order Abolishing U. of Louisville Board;
UVa Under Title IX Investigation Again; Drake forced Kentucky into reporting another violation;
7/22/16
TechNews for the week: July 22; July 20; July 18;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Turkish premier: Country under full government control after coup attempt; Commanding officer at Incirlik airbase arrested in coup plot;
Turkish purges spread to police forces in the wake of quashed coup; suspends more than 15,000 education workers in widening purge; After the coup, Turkey turns against America;
Islamic State claims responsibility for attack in Nice, France;
Israel launches anti-aircraft missiles at Syrian drone; Israeli parliament passes controversial impeachment law;
Man armed with ax injures multiple people on a train in Germany; Multiple casualties in shooting rampage in Munich shopping mall;
What's wrong with America's police forces? Absolutely everything, or nothing at all; Austin police body-slam black teacher, tell her blacks have 'violent tendencies';
State troopers from Mass., N.H. arrested and charged with assault after video showed officers punching driver;
Baton Rouge police officers shot, two reported dead; Cop shoots caretaker of autistic man playing in the street with toy truck;
Judge tosses Rauner-backed Illinois redistricting referendum from ballot;
Federal Judge Strikes A Critical Blow Against Wisconsin's Voter Suppression Law; Federal appeals court orders changes to Texas voter ID law;
Voting challenges head toward the Supreme Court: 4 cases to watch; The Supreme Court's new definition of corruption is out of step with what Americans think;
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to reconsider immigration plan;
Illinois to Start 2017 With Over $10 Billion in Unpaid Bills;
Rauner email: Half of CPS teachers 'virtually illiterate'; Illinois' public-sector unions are sucking the life out of taxpayers;
Hillary Clinton Pledges Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United;
In announcing Pence, Trump talks mostly about himself; Mike Pence lavishes tax dollars on corporations while eliminating food stamps;
Trump's Ghostwriter Tells All; co-writer says Trump could 'end civilisation' if elected; Trump Sends Cease and Desist Letter;
Trump campaign chief denies Melania plagiarism allegations; The Many Lawsuits of Donald Trump;
Trump's Acceptance Speech Was A Eulogy For The GOP;
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke announces run for U.S. Senate; Rep. Steve King wonders what 'sub-groups' besides whites made contributions to civilization;
Secret Service Investigating Trump Adviser Who Said Hillary Clinton Should Be 'Shot for Treason';
Roger Ailes Resigns as Fox News Chief;
NBA will move 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte over bathroom law;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Essay: Cyberweapons vs. Nuclear Weapons; Futuristic Cyberattack Scenario;
Turkey Blocks WikiLeaks After It Publishes Political Emails; Twitter Bans Breitbart Editor for Repeatedly Abusing Users;
Google Reports Record Number of Government Requests;
Stealing Money from ISPs Through Premium Rate Calls; Detecting Spoofed Messages Using Clock Skew;
Cybersecurity Called Biggest Concern for Self-Driving Autos;
Math and science
A 3,000-year-old lost world has been unearthed; Caribbean cave art sheds surprising new light on ancient religious collision;
Astronomers crack open mystery of a massive bulge at the center of our galaxy;
Facebook Successfully Tests Aquila Aircraft;
Things the Color of Your Pee Says About Your Health;
11 Advanced Excel Tricks That Will Help You Get An Instant Raise At Work;
Our Nine-Point Guide to Spotting a Dodgy Statistic;
Web and computing issues
Obama Announces $400 Million 5G Wireless Network Research Initiative;
Verizon to customers: No more unlimited data;
SC Politics
Charleston County Council kills half-cent sales tax plan - for now; Bike lane over the Ashley River rolls forward;
Charleston port's new gate system still vexing truckers, causing delays; Mixson builders appeal city's ultimatum;
Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson boosted Haley group coffers;
State Sen. blames sloppy bookkeeping for ethics allegations;
Violent protests are no way to hold the moral high ground;
Finance and Economics
Tech, Agriculture Employers Say Not Enough Americans Able To Fill Jobs; Coder Shortage Affecting Other Tech Valley Industries; Pennsylvania Clean Energy Jobs Up 15.7%;
Tax Brackets Americans Are In;
IMF Cuts Global Growth Forecast After Brexit Vote; US Expands WTO Challenge To China's Metal Export Limits;
Few ultra-Orthodox Jews make it in Israel's tech industry;
Ford Invests In Mapping Technology Start-Up Civil Maps; Mercedes Deploys First Autonomous-Driving City Bus;
Autopilot Crashes Will Not Slow Industry Progress; Germany To Require Black Boxes For Self-Driving Cars;
EPA, NHTSA: Fuel Efficiency Falling Short Of 2025 Goal;
Monsanto rejects revised $64bn Bayer bid;
Google Fiber Initiative Aims To Expand Into Nationwide Broadband Service;
Geothermal Energy Plan Proceeds Despite Opposition Over Seismic Risks;
Other news
Probe of Russian athletes finds widespread, state-run doping in multiple Olympic sports; Russia loses appeal against Olympic track and field ban;
When Millennials Become Managers;
Education:
Executive Compensation at 236 Public Universities and Systems; Bonuses Push More Public-College Leaders Past $1 Million; Great Colleges to Work For 2016;
New Rules Require Schools To Offer "Neutral" Menu Of Ways For Students To Receive Financial Aid Balances;
Administration Struggling To Monitor Student Loans Amid Rise In Debt; Behind the Shake-Up at Temple U.: A Merit Scholarship That Grew Too Fast;
Study: Calculus Discourages Women From STEM Fields; More International Women Students Studying STEM Fields At US Universities;
New Leader, New Vision for California Community Colleges; As Dual Enrollments Swell, So Do Worries About Academic Rigor;
When Pokemon Goes to Campus: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Which Ed-Tech Tools Truly Work;
Faculty members prepare for 'campus carry';
NCAA Questions Host Cities on Possible Discrimination;
7/15/16
TechNews for the week: July 15; July 13; July 11;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Pentagon will send hundreds more troops to Iraq following seizure of key airfield; ISIS is quietly preparing followers for fall of 'caliphate';
Russia may have lied about losing a gunship to ISIS;
Even as it battles ISIS, Turkey gives other extremists shelter; Turkey PM says attempted coup under way by military group;
Israel's Great Divide; Israel Hits ISIS in Sinai as Ties With Egypt Intensify; Decade after war, Israel's 'main enemy' Hezbollah mired in Syria;
Israeli defense chief blocks peace mission to West Bank; Israel announces $12.9m boost to West Bank settlements; Israeli demolitions displace dozens of Palestinians;
Israeli NGOs decry 'deeply anti-democratic move' as new law approved;
France reels as Bastille Day truck attack kills 84 in Nice;
In major blow to Beijing, international panel rejects South China Sea claims;
Theresa May vows to be 'one nation' prime minister;
Secret contracts reveal origin of CIA's brutal interrogation program; Congress releases long-classified '28 pages' on alleged Saudi ties to 9/11;
House GOP leaders block votes to restrict Confederate flag; Iowa Rep. Steve King provokes criticism for displaying Confederate flag;
GOP senator: Confirming judges unrelated to 'doing our jobs';
Republicans just escalated the war over ExxonMobil and climate change; Republicans warn Email controversy not over for Clinton;
Amid protests, U.S. divide over race and policing deepens;
Kansas Board Decides to Reject Votes Over Citizenship Rule;
Donald Trump officially picks Mike Pence as his running mate; 10 things you should know about Mike Pence;
How Trump uses insults, threats and lawsuits to quiet critics; Trump Cites Possible Political Damage In Explaining Why He Won't Release Taxes;
Silicon Valley unites against Donald Trump; Judge attacked by Trump weighs releasing key video in Trump University case;
Donald Trump and the GOP Dropped the Two-State Solution for Mideast Peace;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
July Crypto-Gram Newsletter, Cryptography, Vulnerabilities and more; "Zero Days" Documentary Looks At the Future Of Cyberwar, Stuxnet;
NATO: 'New realities' make internet a potential front line in conflict; Demand for Cyber Insurance Growing in Europe; Security Effectiveness of the Israeli West Bank Barrier;
Password Sharing Is Now a Crime; Visiting a Website against the Owner's Wishes Is Now a Federal Crime; Anonymization and the Law;
Every version of Windows hit by "critical" security flaw; Microsoft Wins Privacy Case Versus US Government; Report on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process;
How to safely access and navigate the Dark Web; FTC and Florida attorney general shut down a major computer tech scam;
Math and science
The Flaw at the Heart of Psychological Research; Three basic mistakes people make at casinos, according to a math expert;
The world's clouds are in different places than they were 30 years ago; Research Explores Link Between Extraction, Earthquakes;
What is a hyperloop; USAF Looks To Amass Firepower Using Advanced Technologies;
Scientists Could Use Bacteria-Powered "Windfarms" To Power Future Smartphones; Artificial Voice Production Expands, Gets Personalized;
New dwarf planet discovered out past Neptune;
Egypt Displays Oldest Papyrus, Accounts on Pyramid-Builders;
Web and computing issues
Amid Shootings, Facebook Faces Concerns About Live Videos;
ONR Targeting Software Bloat;
How to scan and archive your old printed photos;
SC Politics
The Resurrection of S.C. State;
Charleston can't handle an influx of new residents;
Finance and Economics
UK plans to cut corporation tax help boost the post-Brexit economy; CNPC: Chinese Energy Consumption To Peak By 2035;
Pentagon, Lockheed Martin Expected To Reach Deal Soon Over Fighter Jet Contracts;
Email Shows PG&E Knew Of Hazards Before San Bruno Blast; Solar Seen Noncompetitive In Texas Amid Cheap Wind, Natural Gas;
Expanding California's Electric Grid Would Save Consumers $1.5 Billion; But Unclear Implications For Utah; LIPA Expected To Approve Largest US Offshore Wind Farm;
Tech Companies Planning Hiring Push; IBM Develops Predictive Algorithms To Solve Attrition Problems;
Jaguar Land Rover To Test Semi-Autonomous Features; EV Sales To Grow By 62% In 2016; Honda Develops Electric Motor Not Requiring Rare-Earth Metals;
Bayer lifts bid for Monsanto to $64bn;
Other news
The New McCarthyism;
Education:
Thousands Of Maryland College Freshmen Will Require Remediation; Study: College Students Performed Worse When Allowed To Use Laptops, Devices;
Accreditor Awaiting ED's Response Before Decision On University Of Phoenix Merger; Nonprofit Colleges Also Concerned About ED Loan Forgiveness Rule Proposal;
U. of California Increases In-State Admissions; Advocate Says Colleges Should Do More to Support Free Textbooks; NACAC Calls For Improved Standardized Testing Integrity;
New Mexico State U. Will Eliminate 126 Positions to Close Budget Gap; Disturbed by Protests, State Lawmakers Appoint a Panel to Audit the U. of Missouri;
Are MOOCs Forever;
How 'Campus Carry' Will Change the Way Texas Students Live Their Live;
Despite Controversy, Berkeley Renews Football Coach's $150,000 Contract;
7/8/16
TechNews for the week: July 8; July 6;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Islamic State car bomb in Iraqi capital kills 115; Suicide bombers hit three Saudi cities; At least 35 killed in attack on Shi'ite mausoleum north of Baghdad;
Syrian army fire cuts only road into rebel-held Aleppo;
U.S. to keep 8,400 troops in Afghanistan through end of term;
Long-awaited British inquiry into Iraq war finds failure at multiple levels; The War in Iraq Was Not a Blunder or a Mistake. It Was a Crime;
UK Conservatives to chose either May or Leadsom to succeed PM Cameron;
Senate Democrats threaten to block spending bills;
California governor signs stringent gun bills, vetoes others;
Analysis finds Fatal shootings by police are up in the first six months of 2016; The big question about why police pull over so many black drivers;
Dallas Mass Shooting Is Deadliest Day for Law Enforcement Since 9/11;
Clinton campaign says she was interviewed by FBI about emails; FBI completes Clinton email probe, recommends no criminal charges;
How Southern racism found a home in the Tea Party;
Questionable tax-free payments to Trump staffers give experts pause; Trump beats expectations, raises $51 million with GOP in June;
Donald Trump Says He'll Protect Constitution's 'Article XII';
The complicated racial history of the former GOP congressman who warned Obama to 'watch out' after Dallas shootings;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
China-Based Android Malware Infects 85 Million Devices; Android Phones May Have To Be Reset To Be Rid Of HummingBad Malware;
U.S. Agency Warns of 'Very Serious' Flaw in Symantec Software;
AT&T Broadband Plan Allows It to Track Web Searches; Verizon's new cellphone plans, explained; Avast buys antivirus rival AVG for $1.3bn;
Senate And House Have Reached Airport Security Agreement; Airport Security; Intellectual Property as National Security;
The Difficulty of Routing around Internet Surveillance States;
Google Tests New Encryption To Fend Off Quantum Attacks;
Math and science
NASA spacecraft reaches giant planet; Astronomers spy giant planet, three stars in odd celestial ballet;
Research on Police Shootings: 'One Trigger Finger for Whites and Another for Blacks';
Web and computing issues
Facebook, Israel Spar Over Inciting Palestinian Violence;
How to make Google forget your most embarrassing searches;
SC Politics
Legal battle over hotel approvals highlights Charleston's accommodations angst;
Finance and Economics
U.S. employment rebounds strongly in June; Brexit: What Your Company Needs to Know; U.K. Real Estate Funds Forced to Freeze Assets;
U.S. Has More Oil Than Saudis, Russians; Senators face off over bill to help retired coal miners;
Interior Releases Rules Raising Environmental Standards For Arctic Drillers; Environmentally-Friendly Oil Sands Extraction Method Could Transform Industry;
Utility-scale Solar Seen Cheaper Than Rooftop Solar; Wind Industry Aims To Continue Policy Support;
Boeing Opens New Facility To Advance Autonomous, Interconnected UAS Technology; Chinese Government Group Works To Develop Autonomous Driving Standards;
Retirees: Could Your Pension's Cost of Living Clause Be Frozen; Do 401(k) providers favor their own funds?
BlackBerry will no longer make its most iconic handset;
IARPA To Offer 3-D Satellite Mapping Solution Challenge;
Other news
The politics of anger;
Trump: The College Years;
The Real Danger of Brexit;
Education:
Study: How Minority Students' Experiences Differ; How Does a State College Survive, and Thrive, on Emergency Funding;
Colleges Courting Foreign Entrepreneurs With H-1B Visas; No grades, no timetable: Berlin school turns teaching upside down;
Moody's Downgrades Illinois University System; Association of Business Officers says Expect High Turnover in College Business Offices;
Sending Students a Letter About Their Debt Might Not Be Enough to Change Their Borrowing; Analysis: New Jersey's Student Loan Rules Can "Easily Lead To Financial Ruin";
House Bill Would Block Gainful Employment Rules, Cut Year-Round Pell Grants;
Los Angeles Mayor Calls For Colleges To Stop Asking Applicants About Criminal Histories;
U.California's Open-Access Promise Hits a Snag: The Faculty; Professors at U. Texas-Austin Sue to Block Campus-Carry Law;
Articles: Law Enforcement and Academe;
Athletics and academics: How Ohio State teams fare off the field and in the classroom; NCAA rules Georgia Southern U. Staff Members Helped Athletes Cheat;
7/1/16
TechNews for the week: June 29; June 27;
War, Politics and Reports (Also, see Finance and Economics)
Iraqi army closes in on Islamic State militants holed up west of Falluja; Islamic State routs Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels in fresh setback for U.S. strategy;
Suicide bombings rock Istanbul airport, killing dozens; Turkish official say Istanbul airport bombers were Russian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz;
Istanbul Attack Shows the Dangerous New Face of the Islamic State;
At least 27 Afghan police cadets killed in suicide bombings outside Kabul; Bangladesh police plan to move soon to end hostage crisis;
Israel's Security Figures Take Aim at Hard-Line Netanyahu; Dug by Jews, tunnel from Nazi era found in Lithuania;
'Leave' leaders are walking back some of their biggest promises; Britain is getting exactly what it voted for - economic and political destruction;
Ex-London mayor halts bid to be UK prime minister, upends race; UK Labour leader criticized for Israel, Islamic State remark;
The chaos of post-Brexit politics in Britain, explained;
Austrian court overturns presidential elections, calls rerun;
Puerto Rico rescue bill clears Congress 2 days before default;
Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Abortion Limits; Unanimously rules for former Va. governor McDonnell;
25 states have abortion rules similar to the Texas regulations that were just struck down;
Study finds police officers arrested 1,100 times per year, or 3 per day, nationwide; Review: City lawyers hid evidence of police misconduct;
After Brexit, U.S. secessionists hankering for 'Texit'; Ku Klux Klan dreams of rising again 150 years after founding;
Christie orders all NJ state-funded infrastructure projects to halt work;
Benghazi report finds no new evidence of wrongdoing by Clinton; The 5 most serious accusations from GOP's Benghazi report;
Benghazi conspiracy theorists turn on Trey Gowdy; The true story of the Benghazi committee;
Republicans may have just forfeited half their Senate pickup chances;
Clinton Unveils Technology Agenda, Focusing on Entrepreneurs;
Trump promised millions to charity. We found less than $10,000 over 7 years; used money donated for charity to buy himself a Tim Tebow-signed football helmet;
Trump dares business to flee Republican Party; overseas fundraising emails prompt complaints; 'I have totally terminated the loan!': Trump rips 'very dishonest' NBC in Twitter rant;
Trump just pulled ahead of Clinton in a national poll for the first time in more than a month;
Math, science and technology:
Security issues
Security Analysis of TSA PreCheck; Turkey attacks raise familiar question on airport security; US courts didn't reject a single wiretap request in 2015;
YouTube, Facebook Use New Technology to Taken Down Extremist Videos;
Why antivirus programs have become the problem, not the solution;
1.2 million infected: Android malware 'Hummer' could be biggest trojan ever; Study Unveils Cybersecurity Deficiencies At Hospitals;
Math and science
The sun is losing its spots - and here's why that's a bad thing for all of us; Mysterious 'cold blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean is starting to give up its secrets;
Navy Announces Plan For 150 Kilowatt Laser;
What Happens When Your Research Is Featured on 'Fox & Friends';
Web and computing issues
How to see everything Google knows about you;
How to turn an old Wi-Fi router into an access point;
These Five Steps Outline the Basics of the Design Thought Process;
SC Politics
Crackdown forces South Carolina beer festivals to rethink format;
Start now to fix gerrymandering's ills;
South Carolina State Appoints New President After Interim Resigns;
Finance and Economics
Initial Jobless Claims Up By 10,000 To 268,000; 69th Straight Week Under 300,000;
China's Manufacturing PMI Flat In June, Service PMI Shows Expansion; Japan's Final Manufacturing PMI Indicates Fourth Straight Month Of Contraction;
Canadian Economy Expands In April; Panama Opens Canal Extension;
Brexit's 'Black Friday' selloff was the worst ever at $2 trillion; S&P Strips U.K. of Triple-A Credit Rating; EU Spells out Conditions for Single Market Access to Britain;
US Banks Preparing to Relocate After Brexit; Banks begin moving operations out of UK; Brexit vote prompts fears over UK insurers' capital strength;
Brexit: Answers to 8 crucial questions for business and technology professionals;
Drought-stricken California may have a vast groundwater reserve;
Newest U.S. Refinery Sold To Tesoro At Loss, Hurt By Low Oil Prices; GE Energy To Continue Investing In Renewable Energy Projects With Capacity On The Rise;
States, Rockefellers Push Back On House In Exxon Climate Probe;
Intel, Mobileye Work To Develop Self-Driving Cars; Boeing Moving Toward Developing New Mid-Sized Jetliner;
Law Schools Cut Back to Counter Tough Financial Times;
Other news
The failure of the Second Amendment: Our founders got this one wrong in every respect;
Understanding the Second Amendment: Why Yesterday's Rights About Guns and Militias Don't Make Sense Today;
Education:
Study: College Is Not Affordable, Especially For Low Income Students; Study Finds College Diploma Helps In Job Market;
ACT Will Change Scoring Scale for Writing Test; Citadel Offers Scholarship For STEM Graduates To Teach In High-Need Districts;
Moody's: Private Urban Universities Beat Rivals in Enrollment and Revenue Growth;
Turmoil Raises Specter of Faculty Exodus From Public Colleges; University of Chicago professors, students upset by layoffs and school finances;
Ex-Mayor Sees Minority Students as Assets for Globally Competitive Businesses;
Police Confront the Price Tag of Prepping for Guns on Campus; U.Northern Colorado Admits Bias-Response Team Violated Free Speech;
Antioch U. System Dismisses Leaders at All 5 Campuses; U.South Florida Fires Official After Investigation Into Hiring Process;
Cleveland's Colleges Are Bracing for the Republican Convention;
NCAA Rules Baruch College Lacked Institutional Control;