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In fall, the USF College of Education’s student advising services had an awful choice to make: to lay off a receptionist or an advisor. The college laid off the receptionist, and now students face a large poster explaining how to make an appointment, instead of a friendly face to help them immediately:

Credit: United Faculty of Florida, 2008. Please contact Sherman Dorn for permission to reprint. (There will be no fee charged, but we need to keep track of reprintings.)

On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the Higher Education Act reauthorization. Changes include raising the authorized cap for Pell grants. The bill did not include a federal version of David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights.

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