Alex FriedrichDonated Land Is Battlefield Johns Hopkins’s Big Development Plan Wasn’t Intent of Land Gift, Says Family (The Wall Street Journal) Buying textbooks on Amazon could get more expensive Would you still buy textbooks on Amazon if you had to pay sales tax? (USA Today) Worcester State University Charges Students Pedestrian Fee Fees have become a popular way for Read more →
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Archives for January 2013
Here’s a slightly edited announcement from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system: Two Semifinalists for President of Southwest Minnesota State University Named Campus visits scheduled for January 30-February 1 Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) has named two semifinalists who are under consideration to be president of Southwest Minnesota State University. The Read more →
Looks like some University of Minnesota faculty are trying to flex a little consumer muscle. You may remember the story of how TCF Bank informed a number of Iranian students at the U letters late last month that it was closing their accounts. Below is a copy of a letter that professor Bill Beeman forwarded Read more →
Maryland Dream Act loophole raising cost of tuition for some students in Montgomery County Undocumented Montgomery County high school students who haven’t yet graduated but want to take college courses at Montgomery College to get ahead will have to pay roughly triple the rate their peers do. (The Washington Post) Georgia-Backed Scholarships Benefit Schools Barring Gays An Read more →
Among University of California Applicants, Latinos Take the Lead For the first time, the University of California system has received more freshman applications from Latino students than from any other racial or ethnic group in the state. (The New York Times) Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates China is making a $250 billion-a-year investment in what economists call Read more →
Dartmouth College Ending Advanced Placement Credit High school students hoping to earn college credits through Advanced Placement exams soon will be out of luck at Dartmouth College, which has concluded the tests aren’t as rigorous as its own classes. (Associated Press) Major coup as US institutions enlist four-star leadership When Francis Hendricks took over this month as Read more →
Old-school job skills you won’t find on Google Young graduates might well be digital savvy, but employers are finding they lack the old-school research skills. (The Seattle Times) Millennials enter growing, controversial field of life coaching Once a little-known vocation, life coaching is gaining traction in the technology age, which has opened the profession up to Millennials. Read more →
College of Visual Arts‘ director of financial aid, David Woodward, explains part of the financial crisis he’s been seeing among the college’s families. It’s a crisis that has caused the college to shut down for good in June: “The economy has tanked since 2008 and many of the families that come to CVA are either Read more →
With the usual rankings-related caveats in mind, I was drawn to this little article in U.S. News & World Report on which schools are ranked higher by high-school counselors than their peers. St. Mary’s University of Minnesota topped the list of colleges with a greater repuation among counselors than of peer colleges. It had the Read more →
Apollo to Offer Course on Innovation Apollo Group, the parent company of University of Phoenix, will try to shore up its reputation and revenue with an executive-education course on innovation led by heavy hitters from Harvard and elsewhere. (The Wall Street Journal) San Jose State program to offer entry-level subjects online High-demand classes will be Read more →