Adam Harris is a reporter based in Washington, D.C. His work has appeared in Bleacher Report, BBC, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and EBONY Magazine, among other outlets.
Black colleges need someone to carry their banner. This pastor’s son is stepping up.
“It seemed kind of baffling that a senator from Pennsylvania was proposing an amendment that effectively only helped one school in Michigan,” said Steven Bloom.
The education secretary’s aversion to the national news media and her communication style have created a knowledge gap for college leaders seeking to understand her philosophy on higher ed.
Edison O. Jackson, the president of Bethune-Cookman University, approached the lectern at the event center here on Wednesday - standing in front of soon-to-be-graduates and more than 3,000 of their family members, friends, and supporters, at the opening of the university's spring commencement ceremony. "Turn and face forward," he said.
Updated (12/13/2017, 10:34 a.m.) with results of the Tuesday session of the House committee and comment from Paul Mitchell, a Republican congressman. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives began in earnest on Tuesday to finalize an ambitious bill to reauthorize the main federal law governing higher education.
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Trying to maintain a veneer of neutrality while investigating a potentially explosive topic, James B. Comey found himself at the center of a fight between a brash antagonist and a group of rank-and-file professionals desperate to protect themselves and their institution.
The Education Department recently gave the clearest indication to date that it may roll back, or at least alter, the hotly contested gainful-employment regulation. The rule, an initiative of the Obama administration, was billed as a way to better hold career-oriented programs accountable.
Several refrains marked the election campaign of Donald Trump. "Make America great again." "Build the wall." But another phrase commonly uttered by the president continues to animate his base: "The system is rigged."
A bicameral group of federal legislators on Tuesday sent a letter to Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, criticizing recent changes in how the Education Department chooses an outside company to service the billions of dollars in federal student loans it issues. The lawmakers were led by Sen. Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington; Sen.
The departure last week of James W. Runcie, who was chief operating officer of the Federal Student Aid office in the U.S. Education Department, sparked headlines - but one paragraph in his resignation letter flew relatively under the radar. Mr. Runcie wrote to his colleagues that senior managers in the office had met with officials in the U.S.
A top official at the U.S. Education Department resigned on Tuesday following a dispute over his scheduled testimony this week before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, according to a department official. James W. Runcie, the chief operating officer of the department's Office of Federal Student Aid, submitted his resignation on Tuesday night.
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's decision to withdraw Obama-era directives aimed at streamlining student-loan servicing for borrowers is adding to fears among some advocates about the erosion of student protections early in her tenure. This week, Ms. DeVos rescinded three memos - issued last year by the former secretary of education John B.
(Updated, 10:17 p.m., with additional background and details.) Following weeks of anticipation, President Trump signed an executive order on historically black colleges and universities in the Oval Office on Tuesday, a day after meeting with dozens of HBCU leaders at the White House.
It has been a month since Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has spoken publicly about higher education. During a U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on June 6, Ms. DeVos spoke in support of the Trump administration's budget. Senators from both sides of the aisle criticized the proposal, which calls for steep cuts to a range of education programs, as "difficult" to defend.
When her daughter, Thalya, was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, Chantal Onelien's initial reaction was shock. But, as Adam Harris reports, it was only the beginning of a long and difficult fight. Thalya, then only 13 years old, would need to begin dialysis immediately, and she would also need a new kidney.
A US government-funded news service says editorial independence won't be at risk amid a raft of changes. Journalist Adam Harris looks at what Voice of America means to Americans and the rest of the world.
Trump's Twitter account wasn't always the powerful spectacle it has become. Journalist Adam Harris goes through the archives to see how it evolved In the month since the election, Trump has taken to Twitter to lambast what he views as unfavourable media coverage, rail against corporations who might take jobs overseas and defend his phonecalls with international leaders.
Meet the team of 11- and 12-year-old mini-Kaepernicks protesting during the national anthem in southeast Texas—despite death threats and their coach's suspension after a nonstop fight against injustice.
Journalist Adam Harris looks at the forgiveness shown in the Charleston courtroom and how it is a strength that has long been espoused in black American spirituality. When relatives of those shot dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston faced the suspected gunman, Dylann Roof, in a court hearing on Friday, they met him with words of forgiveness.