President Barack Obama proposed a budget for fiscal year 2012 that will cut funding for certain higher education programs on Monday, Inside Higher Ed reported. Pell grants would no longer cover summer classes, and federal graduate student loans will start accumulating interest at the time the loan is granted instead of after graduation, according to The New York Times. If approved, the budget will maintain the maximum amount of money awarded in a Pell grant at $5,550 for each college student. Republicans in the House of Representatives proposed an alternative budget on Friday that would reduce the maximum Pell grant by $845, and do away with all funding for the AmeriCorps national service student program, according to Inside Higher Ed. Obama's slated budget additionally includes $78 billion in cuts from Pentagon spending, $62 billion in cuts from Medicare and Medicaid spending and tax breaks for oil, gas and coal companies, The Times reported.
Twelve American students studying abroad in Egypt this semester will attend The Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Rothberg International School after chronic interruptions in their studies, which resulted from Egypt's present political conflict, The Daily Princetonian reported. Due to violence in Egypt, the United States government recommended that American citizens evacuate the country. The students enrolling in The Hebrew University's program include students from Princeton University, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University, Allegheny College and University of California schools, according to The Princetonian. The Hebrew University will provide the 12 students with an orientation to help ease their transition. Mimi Ajzenstadt, the Rothberg International School provost, said that professors at The Hebrew University would contextualize students' experiences in Israel and Egypt "within a broader academic framework," The Princetonian reported.
New Hampshire's community college system which selected the State Employees' Association labor union to represent its members, according to a press release on the State Employees' Association's website. The Public Employee Labor Relations Board of the State Employees' Association determined that a majority of the adjunct faculty members working at community colleges in New Hampshire signed authorization cards indicating that they wished to have the State Employees' Association represent adjunct faculty members. The Association already represents full-time professors and other workers in New Hampshire, according to the organization's website.
