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How Financial Aid Letters Often Leave Students Confused and Misinformed

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ProPublica - By Marian Wang - Oct. 16 (Investigative Report) - The financial aid award letters that colleges send to prospective students can be confusing: Many mix grants, scholarships and loans all under the heading of "Award," "Financial Assistance," or "Offered Financial Aid." Some schools also suggest loans in amounts that families can't afford.

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The President's Last Line of Defense

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

National Journal - By Ronald Brownstein - May. 26 (News Analysis) - The new round of national and state surveys this week generally showing President Obama clinging to a tenuous advantage over Republican Mitt Romney reinforce the conclusion that socially liberal, upscale white women may stand as the president's indispensable line of defense in his struggle for reelection. Both the national ABC/Washington Post survey released earlier this week, and the NBC/Marist Polls released Thursday in the battleground states of Ohio, Virginia and Florida show Obama retaining preponderant support among minority voters who were critical to his 2008 victory. Conversely, in almost all of the surveys, Obama faces a consistent pattern of erosion from his already meager 2008 levels of support among whites without a college education.

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Texas A&M Cadets to be led by 1st black commander

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Yahoo! News - By Michael Graczyk - Apr. 12 (News) - Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has finally reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations. ...

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Santorum living in stone-age

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Stephanie Coontz - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - Presidential candidate Rick Santorum is unhappy with last week's compromise over whether Catholic institutions should be required to cover contraception for their employees, arguing that birth control "shouldn't be covered by insurance at all."

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Brown signs California Dream Act

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Maeve Reston - Jul. 26 (News Report) - Following through on a campaign promise, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law Monday easing access to privately funded financial aid for undocumented college students. He also signaled that he was likely to back a more controversial measure allowing those students to seek state-funded tuition aid in the future.

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Providence Equity to Buy Blackboard for $1.64 Billion in Education Deal

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:36:10 -0700

Bloomberg - By Douglas MacMillan - Jul. 01 (News) - Providence Equity Partners Inc. agreed to buy Blackboard Inc. (BBBB), a maker of online educational software, for $1.64 billion. Providence will pay $45 a share in cash for Washington- based Blackboard, the companies said in a statement today. The price represents a 21 percent premium over Blackboard’s closing price on April 18, the day before the company said it would evaluate strategic alternatives, the companies said.

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North Korea shuts down universities for 10 months

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Julian Ryall - Jun. 29 (News) - North Korea has shut down its universities for the next 10 months and sent students to work in factories, agriculture and the construction sector as it struggles to rebuild its economy.

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It’s Not About You

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Brooks - May. 31 (Opinion) - College grads are often sent out into the world amid rapturous talk of limitless possibilities. But this talk is of no help to the central business of adulthood, finding serious things to tie yourself down to. The successful young adult is beginning to make sacred commitments — to a spouse, a community and calling — yet mostly hears about freedom and autonomy.

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Is College Worth It?

Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

pewsocialtrends.org - May. 16 (Poll) - This report is based on findings from a pair of Pew Research Center surveys conducted this spring. One is a telephone survey taken among a nationally representative sample of 2142 adults ages 18 and older. The other is an online survey, ...Study looks at whether college is really worth the priceCNNIs college worth it?NewsChannel 9 WSYRKey Education Issues Dividing Public, College Presidents, Study FindsWall Street JournalBloomberg -Houston Chronicle (blog) -WHNTall 45 news articles »

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On the Ground with a "Gap Year"

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Gregory Kristof - May. 03 (Opinion) - When college does roll around, you’ll already have gone through your own freshman orientation. After getting lost in a remote village because I was seeking a familiar temple but was approaching it from a completely different direction, I learned that where you are going is not all that matters. Where you are coming from matters, too.

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The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Dave Eggers, NÍnive Clements Calegari - May. 01 (Opinion) - When we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame the soldiers. We don’t say, “It’s these lazy soldiers and their bloated benefits plans! That’s why we haven’t done better in Afghanistan!” No, if the results aren’t there, we blame the planners. We blame the generals, the secretary of defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. No one contemplates blaming the men and women fighting every day in the trenches for little pay and scant recognition. And yet in education we do just that. When we don’t like the way our students score on international standardized tests, we blame the teachers. When we don’t like the way particular schools perform, we blame the teachers and restrict their resources. Compare this with our approach to our military: when results on the ground are not what we hoped, we think of ways to better support soldiers. We try to give them better tools, better weapons, better protection, better training. And when recruiting is down, we offer incentives.

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Nighttime commitment: Dating replaced with ‘hooking up’

Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Towerlight - By Alissa Katz - Apr. 24 (News) - USA Today recently published a study showing that there are now fewer committed relationships and more mutual “hookups” in the modern college culture. But how college students define those hookups as a factor in the relationship game. Does “hooking up” mean kissing someone? Is it sex? Does it depend on who you ask? Yes, all [...]

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Writing Teachers: Still Crazy After All These Years

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Minding the Campus - By Mary Grabar - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - After spending four depressing days this month at a meeting of 3,000 writing teachers in Atlanta, I can tell you that their parent group, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, is not really interested in teaching students to write and communicate clearly. The group’s agenda, clear to me after sampling as many of the meeting’s 500 panels as I could, is devoted to disparaging grammar, logic, reason, evidence and fairness as instruments of white oppression. They believe rules of grammar discriminate against “marginalized” groups and restrict self-expression.

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Higher Education Hits a New Low

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Inter Press Service - By Zofeen Ebrahim - Apr. 16 (News) - University students and teachers have taken to the streets in a bid to prevent provincial governments from taking over the reins of higher education in Pakistan.

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More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Trip Gabriel - Apr. 09 (News Report) - Jack London was the subject in Daterrius Hamilton’s online English 3 course. In a high school classroom packed with computers, he read a brief biography of London with single-paragraph excerpts from the author’s works. But the curriculum did not require him, as it had generations of English students, to wade through a tattered copy of “Call of the Wild” or “To Build a Fire.”

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How to Get a Real Education

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Scott Adams - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams.

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Don’t balance federal budget at the expense of college student aid

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center Maryland - By Tina Bjarekull - Mar. 31 (Opinion) - The economic vitality of the United States is dependent on knowledge, innovation, and intellectual discoveries. We cannot cut ourselves out of a global recession. We must build the intellectual capital necessary to lead, grow, and prosper.

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Nevada lawmakers put college mergers, closings back on table after proposed cuts fall short

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Republic - By Michelle Rindels - Mar. 23 (News) - Less than two weeks after the Board of Regents voted to stop discussing school closures or mergers, legislators Tuesday directed the Nevada System of Higher Education to put the cuts back on the table.

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Texas may soon allow guns on college campuses

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Houston Chronicle - By Jim Vertuno - Feb. 20 (News) - The Lone Star state legislature is about to pass a bill forcing colleges to let students and professors to take handguns into the classroom.

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Loyola (Md.) Defeats Iona 88-85 In Overtime

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Jan. 30 (News) - Robert Olson scored 12 points, including the last five in overtime, and a 3 to get it there to help Loyola (Md.) 88-85 on Sunday.

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College Admissions and Affirmative Action: In Texas it's Still Legal

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

good.is - By Liz Dwyer - Jan. 21 (News) - The affirmative action debate is back in the hot seat after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the use of race as an admissions factor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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How universities close the door on the working class

Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Barbara Ellen - Dec. 19 (Opinion) - This is a covert nobbling of poorer students ill-versed in the dark art of "admissions freemasonry" Never mind Santa, a new class divide rule has come to town. Forget all that complicated stuff about poverty, housing et al, this one is a simple education question: "Could you tell a 14-year-old which subjects are required at GCSE and A-level to take them all the way to study at a top university, such as one in the Russell Group?" If you think you could do this, and I'm sure the majority of you can, then you are probably middle class. Or it could be that you are not quite sure. Maybe even some of you, or your children, are currently applying for a course at a top university and have already proudly scribbled down A-levels in, say, law, art & design, or business studies. Which tells me, my sweets, that not only are you most probably either working class, or lower middle class, you are also almost definitely screwed. Ofqual , the exam regulatory body, has instructed universities to simplify ...

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Slim Majority of Americans Would Vote for DREAM Act Law

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Gallup - By Jeffrey M. Jones - Dec. 10 (Poll) - Americans are more likely to say they would vote for than against a law that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children if they join the military or attend college. This is the major thrust of the DREAM Act legislation Congress is now considering to provide a path to citizenship for thousands of young adults living in the United States illegally.

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Workers seek new skills at community colleges, but classes are full

Sat, 27 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Peter Whoriskey - Nov. 27 (Special Report) - But just as workers have turned to community colleges, states have cut their budgets, forcing the institutions to turn away legions of students and stymieing the efforts to retrain the workforce.

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Scrutiny Takes Toll on For-Profit College Company

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Tamar Lewin - Nov. 10 (Special Report) - Over the last few months, Kaplan and other for-profit education companies have come under intense scrutiny from Congress, amid growing concerns that the industry leaves too many students mired in debt, and with credentials that provide little help in finding jobs.

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