CORAL GABLES, Fla., April 17 ââ?¬â? Outside the University of Miami’s main entrance, six janitors and five students continued their hunger strike on Monday, with several asserting that the university’s president, Donna Shalala, was a union-buster.
The University of Phoenix is opening a new Madison campus as the anchor tenant of a new 69,500-square-foot building at 2310 Crossroads Drive on the far east side.
The new site gives Phoenix the capacity to educate 700 students per week. It will offer 42 programs, including various online courses.
During the Monica Lewinsky scandal in the late 1990s, Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, appeared on television regularly to argue that impeaching President Bill Clinton was wrong.
The details of accreditation are so arcane and complex that the entire topic is confusing and controversial throughout all of education. When we�re immersed in the details of accreditation, it�s often exceedingly difficult to see the forest for all the trees. But at the core, accreditation is a very simple concept: Accreditation is a process of self-regulation that exists solely to serve the public interest.
IOWA CITY, April 14 ââ?¬â? Courtney Rodemeyer, a sophomore at the University of Iowa, ran to the basement of the Alpha Chi Omega house Thursday night after the first tornado warning sounded. She was under a table when the twister, part of a series that hit the state, struck.
Joseph Kearney, dean of Marquette University Law School, is adamant: His school is on the rise.
Sit down with the animated, ruddy-faced native of Chicago’s south side and he’ll point to numerous signs of success. So it was with much frustration that Kearney received this spring’s edition of the controversial yet influential U.S. News & World Report college rankings, in which Marquette’s law school dropped from the second to third tier.
This year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison tied Fordham University for 32nd, which placed it in the top tier.
Students are stepping up their protests in support of low-wage workers on their campuses, and administrators at several institutions are cracking down ââ?¬â? and taking heat in some quarters for doing so.
Prison is the last place a grown man wants to be seen crying. So Christopher Ochoa often wept alone in his cell, asking God how this could have happened to him.
Ochoa, 39, missed the 1990s while spending more than a decade in prison as punishment for a brutal rape and murder he didn’t commit.
Ochoa likely will cry publicly next month when he is handed his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School. The commencement address he gives won’t intimidate him because he has grown accustomed to giving speeches.
A Harvard University national poll released Tuesday shows religion and morality to be significant factors in students� politics.
As more women apply to be undergraduates at UW-Madison, mathematically, more must receive the ââ?¬Å?thin envelopes.ââ?¬Â
Recent increases in female applicants may have forced college admissions officers nation-wide to scrutinize female applicants a little more closely in fall 2005, according to a March 23 New York Times op-ed article by Jennifer Delahunty Britz.
Purdue University has turned down the Purdue Organization for Labor Equality’s proposal to stop producing Purdue apparel in sweatshops.
Companies are permitted to make apparel with the Purdue logo after they have been granted a license by the licensing committee. Some of these companies make these products under sweatshop conditions; an occurence the group wishes to change.
The University of Virginia announced on Wednesday that it would guarantee admission to all qualified students from the state’s community-college system, as part of an effort to make itself more accessible to a wider range of students.
Months after suggesting that standardized testing should be brought to colleges and universities, a higher education commission named by the Bush administration is examining proposals to change sharply how the nation’s colleges are accredited and how federal student aid is administered.
ââ?¬Å?Itââ?¬â?¢s not all in your head. It is harder to get in to college this year,ââ?¬Â begins a recent Washington Post article. Itââ?¬â?¢s one of many articles appearing of late in major publications that inform kids and parents just how steep the hill ahead is.
When deciding where to apply to college, high-achieving high school seniors put the highest priority on the academic rigor of an institution and its reputation in their potential major, a survey released Monday says. The prestige of an institution, the clubs and activities on campus and close contact with faculty also rank high in importance, says the nationwide survey of 600 seniors, all of whom had SAT scores of 1100 and above.
If there is such a thing as the perfect storm in the college admissions process, it hit this year. Students applied to more colleges, and many schools received a record number of applications. At the same time, many high-achieving students zeroed in on the same selective institutions. The result: Admissions deans and their staffs made hair-splitting decisions and left many students and high school counselors stunned.
Programs designed to increase the number of baccalaureate degree holders in Wisconsin will see a funding spike with the announcement of $500,000 in state funding Thursday.
Alexandra Baldari and her parents have talked a good deal over the past year about how to pay for her college education, and the upshot is this: If she enrolls at the University of Miami in the fall, she will bear much of the cost, which could total $40,000 or more a year, on her own.
DURHAM, N.C., April 6 ââ?¬â? Duke University is widely considered one of the great success stories in higher education, having transformed itself from a respected regional university with a history of segregation into a selective research university on a par with the country’s most elite institutions.
But now as university officials grapple with accusations that three white members of the lacrosse team sexually assaulted a black woman, officials fear that the events could affect how many recently accepted students ââ?¬â? particularly women and blacks ââ?¬â? will enroll. They have scoured the e-mail messages that roughly 600 alumni have sent to monitor opinion. And they say they worry that everything they have accomplished across several decades could be at risk.
All of us at the College Board deeply regret the recent scoring problem on the SAT. When we found the scanning errors, we disclosed the problem as quickly and responsibly as possible to students, high schools, colleges and the news media.
Jake DeLillo recalls a rainy Saturday last October when he took the all-important SAT college admissions test at Yorktown High School in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. As captain of the lacrosse team there, DeLillo, 17, had been recruited by several colleges. Then his SAT scores came in lower than expected, and his options appeared to shrivel. DeLillo picked a college only to discover later that his SAT had been scored incorrectly ââ?¬â? 170 points shy of the accurate score.
There is a growth spurt in the test-optional movement; now, 24 of the top 100 liberal arts colleges, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, are SAT- and ACT-optional. In total, 730 U.S. colleges don’t require SAT or ACT scores, but many are technical or religious schools or those with open admissions policies. For some colleges changing policies, the turning point came when the College Board introduced the new 3-hour, 45-minute SAT with an added essay section.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, responding to allegations that an anti-Israel bias is rampant on college campuses, approved recommendations Monday aimed at ensuring that Jewish college students are protected from anti-Semitic harassment.
Thirty-three graduate programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are ranked in the top 10 in the nation in the latest edition of the U.S. News and World Report rankings.
The way he tells it, Pat Farrell wasn’t pining to be the new provost at UW-Madison.
Farrell, 50, begins the job today, serving as chief academic officer of the university and second-in-command to Chancellor John Wiley. But initially, he said, he had to be prodded to consider it, advancing his application for the lofty post and its $238,468 salary only after “a couple people called” and suggested he try.
Lately, a nationwide shortage of highly qualified male applicants has admissions directors at private institutions (along with a few from public universities, which face separate legal issues when making exceptions based on race or gender) reaching deeper into their applicant pools to get something close to gender balance on campus. That angers some hard-working, high-achieving high school senior girls who see no reason why boys with lower test scores should get an edge ââ?¬â? just as a generation of attempts to help girls has angered boys.
By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Baltimore Sun
WASHINGTON – The Republican-controlled House was expected to pass a measure today that would require colleges and universities to justify large tuition increases and let Washington know how they plan to hold down costs in the future.
Supporters of the provision, which is part of a broader higher education bill, say it would offer more information to prospective students and their parents and give them a better idea of how much they can expect to pay.
The New York Times recently reported it had discovered yet more high school diploma mills that allow athletes to qualify for college scholarships.
Last November the paper reported on a place called University High School in Miami. It had no classes or educational accreditation, yet athletes who were struggling at their regular schools could take correspondence “courses” through University High for $399 and graduate with grades good enough to qualify for a scholarship under NCAA guidelines.
The Republican-led U.S. House is poised to consider a package of higher-education proposals today that proponents say would increase college access and affordability and make it easier for students to transfer to different schools.
In the wake of a series of gaffes this month involving incorrect scores on the SAT reasoning test, some students who are preparing to take the test on Saturday already are worried. And growing skepticism about the College Board’s handling of the matter is prompting more colleges to consider making standardized test scores optional in admissions.
The University of Pennsylvania announced Thursday that it would pay for tuition, room and board for all students from families with incomes of up to $50,000. In topping similar aid commitments from wealthier universities, Penn may set off competition among leading institutions that could benefit low-income students and might attract more of them to enroll at institutions they may have considered too expensive in the past.
Universities are in a tug of war pitting traditionally powerful professors against a new generation of business-savvy presidents hired to control costs, boost research and make classes more relevant in a global economy.
Just five years ago, public colleges and universities enjoyed their highest per-student levels of state and local government support in at least 25 years. By 2005, thanks to stagnant budgets and exploding demand, that figure had plummeted to a 25-year low.
The number of foreign students who applied to graduate programs in American universities during the current academic year increased by 11 percent from the year before, according to a survey to be released today. That growth reverses two years of decline that occurred in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Today’s national report on public funding underscores that Wisconsin is sorely in need of more state support for higher education, area higher education advocates said
Foreign applications to graduate schools in the United States have increased 11 percent in the last year, marking a substantial ââ?¬â? if incomplete ââ?¬â? rebound from recent declines, according to data being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools.
WASHINGTON, March 21 %u2014 A student organization is suing the United States Education Department over a law that denies federal financial aid to 35,000 students a year because they were convicted of drug offenses while receiving the aid.
The class-action suit, which the American Civil Liberties Union is to file on Wednesday in federal court in South Dakota on behalf of an organization called Students for Sensible Drug Policy, names the secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, as a defendant.
The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that Ohio State University is not required to release videotapes of animal research sought under the state’s open-records law by an advocacy group opposed to such studies.
Fifteen other public universities have faced similar requests in the past year, although 11 voluntarily released the information sought. One of the three that refused, Mississippi State University, has been sued.
Dion Lee’s betting days have long since passed.
So Lee did not want to hazard a guess as to when he finally would be able to watch the NCAA tournament without thinking of the gambling scandal that marred his Northwestern basketball career more than a decade ago.
But odds favor later over sooner.
ââ?¬Å?Alternative spring breaksââ?¬Â have become popular in recent years; Campus Compact, a coalition of 1,000 colleges and universities committed to the civic mission of higher education, says the number of schools offering spring break volunteer opportunities has increased from 66% to 77% since 2000. But interest in hurricane relief is unprecedented.
California’s $3 billion embryonic stem-cell research program has ignited a race among states drafting similar tax-funded efforts that could boost demand for human egg donors.
Advertisements in campus newspapers and on websites plead daily. ââ?¬Å?Egg Donors Needed. $10,000,ââ?¬Â says one in The Daily Californian, the student newspaper at the University of California, Berkeley. The ad, from a San Diego broker called A Perfect Match, seeks women who are ââ?¬Å?attractive, under the age of 29ââ?¬Â and have SAT scores above 1,300.
Less than a week after notifying about 4,000 students that their SAT tests had been calculated incorrectly, the College Board, owner of the entrance exam, said Tuesday that a previously overlooked batch of answer sheets from 1,600 students who took the test in October have not been rechecked.
Don’t assume that Duke University students carrying Apple iPods around campus are listening to the latest hits. They might be studying. An increasing number of professors at Duke and other college campuses are experimenting with making lectures and study materials available to students via iPods and other MP3 players.
A skilled multitasker who dreams big, thrives on stress, and calls his parents constantly. That is the profile of the modern student, as described by college officials here on Monday at the annual conference of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators.
Facing threats of litigation and pressure from Washington, colleges and universities nationwide are opening to white students hundreds of thousands of dollars in fellowships, scholarships and other programs previously created for minorities.
Southern Illinois University reached a consent decree last month with the Justice Department to allow nonminorities and men access to graduate fellowships originally created for minorities and women.
More than 2,000 new students at Towson University had gathered for the convocation that was to be a focal point of orientation week. Videos showed campus scenes. The marching band was going to help teach the Maryland institution�s fight song. The university president, several Towson sports stars, and the student government president were to speak to the freshmen in a relatively short (45 minute) program.
University of Wisconsin regents used their monthly meeting to rip a proposed constitutional amendment that would limit tax increases.
The Board of Regents heard from Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, and an aide to Rep. Jeff Wood, R-Chippewa Falls, on Friday. The authors of the Taxpayer Protection Amendment assured regents it would neither harm access to a higher education nor diminish the university’s role as an engine of the state’s economy.
Regents replied it would devastate the university’s ability to provide a quality education to the masses.
The median salary for midlevel administrative workers in higher education rose 3.3 percent in the 2005-6 academic year, according to an annual survey released this week by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
Academia has long lagged behind corporations in work-family benefits, mired in a rigid “publish or perish” tradition that denies tenure to professors who don’t produce and leaves little room for time off.
Now, alarmed by high quit rates among faculty, charges of sexism and the looming retirement of baby-boom profs, top universities are shifting gears fast.
Step onto any college campus in the country, and you’ll find a minority of students who volunteer on spring break. More than 100 students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking up work in homeless shelters in Boston, community gardens in Memphis and other destinations this week. Dozens of students from UW-Milwaukee meanwhile are preparing to help Habitat for Humanity build homes for the poor in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Florida.
The scoring errors disclosed this week on thousands of the College Board’s SAT tests were made by a company that is one of the largest players in the exploding standardized testing business, handling millions of tests each year.
The mistakes, which the company, Pearson Educational Measurement, acknowledged yesterday, raised fresh questions about the reliability of the kinds of high-stakes tests that increasingly dominate education at all levels. Neither Pearson, which handles state testing across the country, nor the College Board detected the scoring problems until two students came forward with complaints.
Many colleges have traditionally relied on the U.S. State Departmentââ?¬â?¢s travel warnings to decide which countries are safe enough for study abroad programs. If a country is on the list, students wanting to study there could forget about help ââ?¬â? including financial aid or credit transfer ââ?¬â? from their home institutions.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison contacted more than 40 applicants on Thursday to inform them that their SAT scores were among thousands miscalculated last fall. But the university said that corrected scores provided by the College Board this week would not affect admissions standings.
Only eight of 42 applicants with inaccurate scores had been denied admission, said Tom Reason, UW-Madison’s associate director of admissions. He said that in almost every case the corrected score wasn’t high enough to change the university’s decision.
Edgewood College students are essentially going to lose one of the places they regularly go to for advice on sexual assault.
Wet, rainy weather may be to blame for thousands of incorrect S.A.T. scores. That statement comes from the company responsible for scanning answer sheets.
The U.W. Madison says it was notified this week that scores for more than 40 applicants were incorrect out of 23,000 who applied. One S.A.T. score was off by more than 300 points.
While jobs in manufacturing or high-tech rise and fall with the fortunes of the economy, an aging population and medical advances mean health care positions are among the fastest-growing jobs. How fast? Eight of the 20 fastest-growing occupations are in health care. More new hourly and salaried jobs ââ?¬â? about 19%, or 3.6 million ââ?¬â? created between 2004 and 2014 will be in health care than in any other industry, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
About 4,000 college-bound high school students ââ?¬â? not to mention parents, counselors and college admissions officials ââ?¬â? are struggling to recover from the news this week that their SAT scores were miscalculated. ââ?¬Å?I don’t understand how this could have happened,ââ?¬Â says Katie MacDowell, 17, a senior at Littleton (Mass.) High School. She learned Thursday that the score reported to colleges for her test was 40 points lower than it should have been.
The College Board miscalculated the SAT scores of 4,000 students who took the test in October 2005, and company officials say they are still not sure what caused the error.
As more and more students turn to websites such as Facebook and MySpace to chronicle their lives and socialize with friends, they also are learning that their words and pictures are reaching way beyond the peers for whom they were intended.
