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9.2.10 - Ask any University of California undergrad where he comes from, and the answer - with 94 percent...
Degrees in lap-dancing?
9.2.10- Deborah Orr: It seems qualifications in traditional subjects are no longer useful ...Foreign students 'cheating on university applications'
9.2.10 - Foreign students are attempting to bluff their way into British universities by parroting education websites in their applications, research suggests. ...Changes in America's worst-college list
9.2.10 - Jay Mathews - The Washington Monthly has posted a corrected list of America's Worst Colleges, based on six-year graduation rates. The new bottom 10 are below, replacing the list I posted last week. The monthly removed from its list three schools -- ...New Trophy for Colleges: Capital One Cup
9.2.10 - VINCENT M. MALLOZZI - A team of former N.C.A.A. athletes unveiled the Capital One Cup, which will be awarded to the top men’s and women’s Division I programs based on cumulative on-field performance across multiple sports. ...
Public Colleges' Debt Outpaces Their Financial Resources
9.2.10 - Public colleges' per-student debt has outgrown their per-student financial resources, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service. ...
Student Loan Debt Clock Ticks Past $848 Billion
9.1.10 - A new tool lets you watch the country's collected student debt pile up in real time. Sponsored by FinAid.org, the Student Loan Debt Clock tallies an estimate of total private and federal outstanding student debt. According to FinAid, now is peak time for debt growth, as more student loans are doled out at the semester's start....Citing misconduct inquiry, Harvard professor cancels classes
9.1.10 - Harvard psychology professor Marc Hauser canceled a Harvard Extension School class on cognitive evolution that he was scheduled to start teaching yesterday and dropped plans to offer a spring class called “The Moral Sense: From Genes to Law.’’...Students face new textbook picks: Rent vs. buy, print vs. e-book
9.1.10 - With another summer ending, the time has come to ask the perennial question: Could this be the year higher education finally embraces the e-book? ...
UC retirement funds face a shortfall of more than $20 billion, report says
8.31.10 - A panel recommends increasing contributions by employees, raising the retirement age for new hires and reducing some benefits. ...
Is ROTC Poised for a Comeback at Elite Colleges?
8.30.10 - Shawna Sinnott spent the last four years performing a balancing act: she took courses for her self-designed major at Harvard, practiced her jazz number for the Miss Massachusetts Pageant, and woke up at 4:30 a.m. three days a week for Navy ROTC training across town at MIT. ...
Online high school courses may not meet NCAA rules
8.30.10 - It's not enough to graduate from high school, be admitted to college and be chosen for a team to be eligible to play Division I sports in college. The high school courses taken by athletes also must be approved by the NCAA Clearinghouse as meeting its standards for college preparation. Former Woodland Hills football player Khaynin Mosley-Smith learned that the hard way....College aid offices offer students tuition help, hope
8.30.10 - About half of the 250 students on the Ferris State University campus last week for student orientation had needs more pressing than just signing up for classes: They were trying to figure out how to pay for those classes. ...
Universities offer rental book option
8.29.10 - Bookstores at San Diego State University, University of San Diego and UC San Diego have expanded their inventory to include books students rent and return instead of buy and sell at the end of the semester. ...
S.F. State student sues over late fee increase
8.29.10 - Building takeovers and angry campus protests couldn't stop last year's systemwide fee hike at California... ...
Common Reading Controversy at Brooklyn College
8.28.10 - Ashley Thorne - Is Brooklyn College using freshman reading for ideological goals? In June NAS published a survey of books colleges assigned this year as “common reading.” One book that didn’t make our list is the one Brooklyn College recently announced, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America, by Moustafa Bayoumi. ...
Scapegoating For-Profit Colleges
8.27.10 - Obama tees up another private industry for punishment. President Obama says he wants the U.S. to have the world's highest percentage of college graduates by 2020, yet his Administration is slapping new regulations on for-profit colleges that would make reaching that goal more difficult. ...Dean From Northwestern Picked to Lead New School
8.27.10 - JENNY ANDERSON - The trustees of the New School, an eclectic university in downtown Manhattan, selected David E. Van Zandt, dean of the Northwestern Law School, on Thursday to be its eighth president. ...University to Manage Home Costs of President
8.27.10 - STEVE FAINARU - The University of California has appointed an official to manage spending at the private residence of its president, Mark G. Yudof, after he ran up nearly $700,000 in expenses. ...
New Excellent Programs: Tocqueville Program and Center for Statesmanship
8.26.10 - Ashley Thorne - Check out our list of excellent programs as we add new ones at Indiana and Richmond. ...- Pledge beaten by sorority sisters who warned her 'snitches get stitches'...
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As a retired school superintendent, I applaud your remarks. What I do in retirement in Connecticut is to help citizens establish local audit committees ...
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