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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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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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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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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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Student tuition fee protest breaks into Conservative HQ

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

BBC News - By Angela Harrison - Nov. 10 (News Report) - There have been clashes between demonstrators and police in London, as students and lecturers protest against plans to treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England.

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For college students, it's so not '08

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Matt Negrin - Oct. 24 (News Report) - From coast to coast, universities that brim with liberal ideas and idealistic students won’t be sending nearly as many voters to the polls on Nov. 2. And that’s bad news for Democrats.

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Georgia clamps down on illegal immigrants in colleges

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Oct. 13 (News) - Georgia's public colleges have adopted new policies that officials say will prevent illegal immigrants from attending five high-demand schools and from being admitted ahead of legally and academically qualified residents at the rest of the state's public institutions of higher learning.

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Controversial UIC professor denied emeritus status

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Chicago Tribune - By Jodi S. Cohen - Sep. 24 (News) - In a very unusual move, University of Illinois trustees Thursday denied giving emeritus status to controversial retired professor William Ayers. The vote, at a U. of I. board meeting in Urbana, was unanimous and came after a passionate speech by board chair Christopher Kennedy, who invoked the 1968 assassination of his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in saying that he was voting his conscience.

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Ole Miss Shelves Mascot Fraught With Baggage

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robbie Brown - Sep. 20 (News) - "There’s no more of a noble cause than continuing the tradition of Colonel Reb,” said Mr. West, standing in the baking Mississippi heat in a giant stuffed mask and foam shoes. “Everyone loves the guy.” Well, not quite everyone. After many years of complaints about the racial insensitivity of having a man dressed as a Confederate soldier as the symbol of a university where 14 percent of students are black, Ole Miss is pulling the plug on Colonel Reb this football season.

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AP-Univision Poll: College dreams for Hispanics

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Trevor Tompson - Jul. 29 (Poll) - In the next decade, U.S. companies will have to fill millions of jobs to replace well-trained baby boomers going into retirement. As the nation's largest minority group, Latinos account for a growing share of the pool of workers, yet their skills may not be up to par. Aware of the challenge, some California State University campuses are reaching out to Hispanic children as early as the fourth grade.

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College Students Short on Empathy

Sat, 29 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Alice Park - May. 29 (News Report) - Students today seem to care more about things like the environment and animal welfare and poverty around the world, but how much empathy do they really have toward their fellow man?

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College Grads Flood U.S. Labor Market With Diminished Prospects

Thu, 20 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - By Mike Dorning - May. 20 (News Report) - Schools from Grant’s alma mater to Harvard University will soon begin sending a wave of more than 1.6 million men and women with bachelor’s degrees into a labor market with a 9.9 percent jobless rate, according to the Education and Labor departments. While the economy is improving, unemployment is near a 26-year high, rising last month from 9.7 percent in January-March as more Americans entered the workforce.

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Once drawn to U.S. universities, more Japanese students staying home

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - Apr. 11 (Special Report) - Once a voracious consumer of American higher education, Japan is becoming a nation of grass-eaters. Undergraduate enrollment in U.S. universities has fallen 52 percent since 2000; graduate enrollment has dropped 27 percent.

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As Obama seeks to boost number of US college graduates, 1 man helps show the way

Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Christine Armario - Apr. 10 (Special Report) - As educators and officials look to reconfigure higher education, they'll be looking to Miami Dade College and Padron, who has transformed the urban school into one of the largest colleges in the United States, graduating more black and Hispanic students than any other public institution.

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Parents' Struggles Hit Adult Kids

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Mary Pilon - Apr. 06 (News Report) - Pay cuts, layoffs and shrunken stock portfolios mean many parents can no longer pay for college, down payments and extra cash for adult children.

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Bias Called Persistent Hurdle for Women in Sciences - New York Times

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Mar. 22 (News) - Bias Called Persistent Hurdle for Women in SciencesNew York TimesA report on the underrepresentation of women in science and math by the American Association of University Women, to be released Monday, ...and more??

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Pell Grant Increase Proposed

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Tamar Lewin - Mar. 19 (News Report) - The federal government would increase financing for Pell grants by $36 billion over 10 years under a Democratic plan.

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Lobbying Imperils Overhaul of Student Loans

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Eric Lichtblau - Feb. 04 (Special Report) - WASHINGTON — Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders.

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Ivy League Endowment Meltdown

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Forbes - By David K. Randall, Asher Hawkins - Jan. 30 (News Report) - The eight schools that make up the Ivy League collectively lost $26.6 billion last year, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and the Commonfund, which manages investments for nonprofit institutions.

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Surge in college applications

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Daniel de Vise - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Trend suggests economy has driven students to schools that offer bigger bang for the tuition buck.

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