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| Why McGraw-Hill Is Offering $100 for Your #usedtextbookproblems Posted: 04 Jun 2015 07:26 PM PDT  Thursday June 4, 2015 Insiders Detail Decline And Fall Of A For-Profit College Empire Dawn Lueck's bosses were beaming. It was the height of the Great Recession, and hundreds of thousands of Americans were losing their jobs each month. But executives at her company, a network of for-profit universities branded as Heald Colleges, were ebullient. "We knew we'd have more students coming in," said Lueck, a former corporate finance manager for 12 Heald campuses. "They were thrilled." Heald, which was founded in 1863, counts governors, senators and A.P. Giannini, the co-founder of Bank of America, among its alumni. But in 2009, it became part of Corinthian Colleges Inc., a vast conglomerate that, at its height, served over 110,000 students at 120 campuses throughout North America. The fortunes of for-profit colleges tracked the Great Recession in reverse: Corinthian's stock price more than doubled between March 2008 and February 2009, just as unemployment spiked; enrollment increased more than 50 percent between fall 2008 and fall 2010. Widespread layoffs left people scrambling to acquire additional skills to compete in an impossible job market. And Corinthian recruiters sold prospective students on a dream: graduating college and ascending into the middle class, with career training that would pay off. Read more. Barnard College Votes To Admit Transgender Women Barnard College has decided to admit transgender women, becoming the latest women's college to issue a new policy acknowledging the fluidity and complexity of gender. The policy, announced Thursday, says Barnard will consider applicants "who consistently live and identify as women." That excludes transgender men, or applicants born female but identifying as male. The decision is an attempt to balance Barnard's identity as a women's college with what the school calls "recognition of our changing world and an evolving understanding of gender identity." Though it won't consider transgender men for admission, the school announced it would still give its full support to any student who makes such a transition while enrolled. Read more.  Why McGraw-Hill Is Offering $100 for Your #usedtextbookproblems Here's the catch: the big textbook publishers that are charging $200 a book don't want students to buy used textbooks -- it means less profit for them. The publishers - McGraw-Hill included, have shown their willingness to do whatever it takes to undermine these cost-saving alternatives, and their latest tactic in no less obvious. Read more.  The Bigger Problem Behind Retaliation Students Face For Reporting Sexist Behavior Tess Bloch-Horowitz did not report Sigma Alpha Epsilon members' sexist behavior to Stanford University. She was, however, treated like she had. Stanford took away SAE's housing privileges for two years in December following an investigation by an outside lawyer into reports of misogynistic behavior at sanctioned fraternity events -- including a "Roman Bath" party Bloch-Horowitz had attended in Spring 2014, where she witnessed pledges forced to share sexist jokes like, "What do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, you've already told her twice," and other similar jests. A few months later, a lawyer hired by Stanford asked Bloch-Horowitz to provide testimony about the party. She spoke with investigators but didn't think much of the case until the following March, when she went to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, for spring break with a large contingent of Greek members from Stanford. In Cabo, some SAE members began harassing her at bars and on Whatsgoodly, an app that allows users in the same vicinity to anonymously poll each other. Friends told Bloch-Horowitz the frat members were doing so because they believed she was the one who reported them for sexist behavior, which resulted in the frat's suspension.  Read more.  Bill Would Open New Route For Colleges To Get Sued Over Rape Cases Colleges and universities could get sued for the first time under a new bill in Congress for violating the Clery Act, a federal campus safety law that's been on the books for more than two decades. The Hold Accountable and Lend Transparency (HALT) Campus Sexual Violence Act, introduced Thursday by Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Patrick Meehan (R-Penn.), is the House companion to similar Senate legislation, but includes several differences. Twenty co-sponsors from both parties have already signed on to the HALT Act. Both the Senate version, the Campus Accountability and Safety Act, and the HALT bill would require climate surveys, require the disclosure of investigations and findings, and increase penalties for violating federal laws pertaining to sexual violence at colleges. Clery fines, for example, would increase from $35,000 to $100,000 per violation. "When we finally have a real cost, we'll actually see schools take the issue seriously," said Laura Dunn, attorney advocate and founder of SurvJustice. Notably, the HALT Act will for the first time create a private right of action under the Clery Act. Clery requires colleges accurately track and disclose the number of crimes reported on campus, and thanks to amendments made as part of the Campus SaVE Act, it also lays out several new rights for both accusers and accused students in sexual assault cases, including the right to have an attorney present in a hearing. Campus SaVE was passed as a portion of the latest Violence Against Women Act reauthorization in 2013. Read more. Country's Longest-Serving Student Newspaper Sex Columnist Quits Due to 'Biting' Reader Comments She has kept with the column for so long, in part, to open the eyes and expand the knowledge bases of students who, she says, "received, at best, an inadequate sexuality education in high school or at home, and at worst, no sexuality education to speak of." Read more.  Here Are The 5 Main Charges Leveled By The NCAA Against UNC —There was a lack of institutional control in failing to "sufficiently monitor" the interactions between the AFAM and the academic support departments, noting athletes received "preferential access" to AFAM's irregular courses.  13 Reasons Moving Back In With Your Parents Is A Stellar Post-Grad Decision 7. And that living rent free is nothing short of amazing. There’s nothing more satisfying than making it rain in your childhood bedroom. Read more.     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