Johanna Alonso

1 week ago | insidehighered.com | Johanna Alonso

Just over half of student loan borrowers consider themselves financially insecure, while about three-quarters said they had experienced an adverse financial event, like skipping a bill, in the past year, according to a survey from the Pew Charitable Trusts exploring the attitudes of student loan borrowers after federal student loan repayments restarted in October 2023 following a three-year pause. The survey was conducted in the summer of 2024.

1 week ago | insidehighered.com | Johanna Alonso

In Melissa Ryckman’s world history survey, an introductory class that consists mostly of non–history majors, she asks her students to complete a brief 100-word assignment every Friday based on what they learned over the previous week. The questions are not based on rote memorization but rather ask students to think critically about the material, exploring, for example, whether they would rather be hunter-gatherers or farmers.

1 week ago | insidehighered.com | Johanna Alonso

The Trump administration is attempting to use a process known as direct final rulemaking to surreptitiously strike long-standing civil rights protections under Title IX, Title VI and Section 504 without going through the notice-and-comment period typically required for new regulations, advocates say. Also unusual—the Department of Energy is issuing the regulations.

2 weeks ago | insidehighered.com | Johanna Alonso

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The National Institutes of Health briefly rescinded an April directive requiring grantees to certify that they don’t operate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in ordered to be awarded funds—only to reinstate the directive soon after, STAT News reported Tuesday.

2 weeks ago | insidehighered.com | Johanna Alonso

Michigan State University has agreed to pay $29.75 million to three students who sustained severe injuries in a 2023 mass shooting on campus, The Lansing State Journal reported Tuesday. In addition, the university agreed to cover the cost of tuition, room, board and health insurance for Yukai “John” Hao, one of the three survivors, who was paralyzed in the shooting, for the remainder of his undergraduate and graduate studies at MSU.