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• Connecticut university gets $4M donation from Trump's sister
• Should the government forgive debt students racked up at ITT Tech?
• US billionaire echoes Rhodes with China scholarship

Connecticut university gets $4M donation from Trump's sister Posted: 14 Sep 2016 11:08 AM PDT FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) — Fairfield University has received a $4 million donation from the sister of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, the university said Wednesday.

Should the government forgive debt students racked up at ITT Tech? Posted: 14 Sep 2016 07:17 AM PDT Former students at the now-shuttered for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institutes are staging a protest by refusing to repay their student loans to the government, hoping to persuade federal authorities to to cancel the debt of those who allegedly suffered fraud at the hands of the school's predatory system. Some 100 protesters have initiated a "debt strike" after the federal government banned the institution from enrolling students who would pay with the help of federal financial aid, leading ITT Tech to close its doors for good, The Washington Post reports. The Department of Education suggested that ITT's roughly 40,000 former students consider transferring their credits to another school or seeking loan forgiveness.

US billionaire echoes Rhodes with China scholarship Posted: 13 Sep 2016 10:42 PM PDT A US billionaire's giant gift to one of China's top universities for a programme echoing Oxford's Rhodes Scholarships comes as the country seeks to boost its schools' prestige while tightening ideological control in classrooms. Tsinghua University in Beijing inaugurated its new Schwarzman College at the weekend, named after the co-founder of the Blackstone hedge fund Stephen Schwarzman, who donated $100 million and raised $350 million more to start the scheme. The programme, a fully funded one-year master's degree intended to foster understanding of China, is in some ways reminiscent of the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford.

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