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Jesus College plans to move Tobias Rustat s funeral monument from its chapel
Rustat, an advisor to King Charles II, was one of Jesus biggest benefactors
He was also a major investor in the slave-trading Royal African Company
Descendant Stephen Hemstead and brothers criticised plan to move memorial
They said money he gave to college did not derive from Royal African Company
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Costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to be about $1.3 million in the 2021 fiscal year, State University of New York at Fredonia officials noted.
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The State University of New York at Fredonia is anticipating roughly a $1.9 million loss in the 2020-21 fiscal year, mostly due to additional costs of COVID-19. Costs of the virus between testing, cleaning and personal protection equipment is estimated to be about $1.3 million.
“Thanks to academic affairs we were able to obtain the enrollment numbers we had predicted back in the fall, so we’re looking at being about $900,000 better than we had predicted. Predominantly it’s on the tuition level,” Vice President of Finance and Administration Michael Metzger said at the College Council meeting last week. “Our state support has been reduced for the last two years by 25%. It hasn’t been confirmed, but I have that in the forecast.”
18 February, 2021
⢠YOUR newspaper needs to be congratulated for its principled defence of free speech.
Your readers will be pleased to hear that the Academic Board at University College London has urged the College Council to retract the adoption of the IHRA, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, âdefinitionâ of anti-Semitism, which risks conflating legitimate criticism of the state of Israel with anti-Semitism, thus threatening freedom of expression on campus.
âBy blurring these boundariesâ, it states, âthe IHRA working definition risks undermining academic freedom.â
Education secretary Gavin Williamson has threatened to withhold funding from universities that do not adopt the definition.
The report by the UCL Academic Board says Williamsonâs intervention demonstrates âhow university autonomy is under threat.â
Four Years of Open Books
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By Dragan Gill
Textbook costs have risen at an unbelievable rate in the last few decades – faster than inflation, most child-care costs and even some medical costs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a rise in costs of nearly 1,000 percent in the last three decades. This has become a real barrier in assessing a college education. In a 2016 Florida State Textbook Survey, 66.5 percent of students reported not purchasing a required textbook and 47.6 percent reported taking fewer courses due to textbook costs.
Rhode Island College decided to address this problem in 2016 by becoming a leader in the Rhode Island Open Textbook Initiative. This state-wide, five-year challenge set by R.I. Gov. Gina Raimondo aimed to save students $5 million in five years. This fall marks the start of the fifth and final year of the challenge.