Inside Higher Ed reports: The U.S. Education Department has fired the top federal official charged with protecting student privacy, in what the dismissed official says was a conflict with the agency’s political leaders over their zeal to encourage the collection of data about students’ academic performance. Paul Gammill was physically escorted out of the department’s…
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Pentagon starts clock on lifting gay ban
Anne Flaherty of The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Defense Department starts the clock next week on what is expected to be a several-year process in lifting its ban on gays from serving openly in the military. A special investigation into how the ban can be repealed without hurting the morale or readiness of the…
Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna’s campaign “pilfered” NDU alumni info – alumnus (updated)
A Notre Dame University alumnus, Gary Caruso, has taken to the Web to question how Notre Dame University Alumni Association records were obtained by Illinois Republican Gubernatorial candidate Andy McKenna’s campaign. According to Caruso, McKenna is an alumnus of NDU and those alumni who were in his class have found themselves on the receiving end…
Data-sharing deal with US could be torpedoed, EU conservatives warn
The conservative grouping in the European parliament is set to reject a planned agreement with the US on sharing bank transfer data, one of its senior members warned Thursday. The so-called SWIFT agreement between the European Union and US goes before a crucial committee vote next week. The SWIFT agreement is seen as crucial by…