New York Times
Building a Showcase Campus, Using an IOU
New York Times
“The need for change in higher education is clear given the emerging disconnect between ever-increasing aspirations and universities' ability to generate the new resources to finance them,” said an unusually sobering introduction to Harvard's annual ...
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Tilghman moderates panel on diversity in higher education
The Daily Princetonian
University President Shirley Tilghman moderated a panel on higher education institutions' practices of promoting and valuing diversity in the makeup of their faculty and student body Thursday morning. The panel, titled “Promoting Success in Diverse ...
Private Colleges Cut Tuition Costs To Lure Students Turned Off By High Cost ...
Huffington Post
He didn't mean unaffordable tuition rates. "Be careful with what you wish for," he said. But Americans' fear that they're being priced out of higher education also offers an opportunity for enterprising colleges. Farish, for one, is seizing the moment.
Higher Education Policy Commission approves new master plan
Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- By 2018, the number of jobs in West Virginia that demand a college degree will increase by 20,000, while nearly half of all jobs will require some sort of postsecondary training, according to the draft of a new master plan approved ...
PolicyMic
Why a College Degree is Worth In, Even in These Economic Times
PolicyMic
So if money is the real issue, let's think about the benefit of college in that sense. Really, then, the groups being compared here are people with a college education versus those without a college education. If we look at the graph below, we can see ...
The Consumerist
Some For-Profit Colleges Taking "Unlimited Data Plan" Approach To Tuition
The Consumerist
A number of recent studies have cast a negative light on the for-profit college industry. A disproportionate number of students are not graduating or unable to find jobs that pay enough to allow them to repay their student loans. With so many people ...
Higher education road map - Mundelein Review
Mundelein Review
The process is tedious for any student, but an even taller task for Esparza because she is among the first in her family to attempt college. She hopes to study fashion design at the Art Institute of Chicago, Dominican University or Columbia College ...
Should Work Experience Come Before College Education? | MindShift
KQED (blog)
But Thiel is perhaps best known for his insistence that higher education is overvalued in America. Roughly two years ago, Thiel came up with the idea of offering 20 exceptional college-age students fellowships worth $100,000 if they would drop out of ...
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Gov. Quinn, college students discuss financial aid for higher education
Chillicothe Times-Bulletin (blog)
Pat Quinn was joined by Illinois college students on Dec. 12 to discuss how inaction on pension reform is threatening Monetary Award Program (MAP) college scholarships and access to higher education in Illinois. One after one, the students made clear ...
Bluefield College to offer master's degree in '13
TriCities.com
Bluefield President David Olive calls the development a "tremendous step" for the college as a school of higher education. The master's degree expansion comes nearly 40 years after Bluefield earned accreditation to offer bachelor's degrees. Bluefield ...
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