Category: Higher Education/System

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) � Mealy apples, boxed mashed potatoes, frozen veggie mixes and suspicious meats drive many a college student to the cereal and bagel bins. But dining halls from Bates College in Maine to the University of California at Santa Cruz are improving their food and helping their local agricultural economies by going straight to the farm.

Economic development isn’t about recruiting and retaining companies anymore — it’s about recruiting and retaining creative class workers, the kind who want to live in a city that’s open and accepting. A city like Madison. But UW is the last Big Ten school without domestic partnership benefits, and a proposed constitutional amendment could limit other efforts. How much ground do we stand to lose?

When Hasina Huntley- Cooper graduated from Verona High School in 2000, she decided she didn’t want to attend UW-Madison and instead chose a black college, North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, N.C.

LaMarr Billups, special assistant to the UW-Madison chancellor, said both black and white students who grow up here often want to leave Madison for college.

While the Wisconsin Historical Society contains one of the largest American history archives anywhere, fewer people have visited in recent years – 40 percent fewer than in 1987 – as more of them, including students at the nearby University of Wisconsin, turn to the Internet as their basic research tool.

Proposed changes in the federal guaranteed student loan program for college students could save $12.3 billion over 10 years, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. For example, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a low-income student eligible for a Pell grant would get an estimated $1,000 to $1,500 increase in aid.

The nation’s most prestigious universities –Ã? and many others in academe –Ã? increasingly contract out portions of their campus operations.

The vast majority of the country’s colleges got richer in 2004, ending a three-year losing streak for many of them.

PRINCETON, N.J. – For students at Princeton University, final exams are even more stressful this year: The Ivy League school decided to make it harder to earn an A.

When Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard, suggested this month that one factor in women’s lagging progress in science and mathematics might be innate differences between the sexes, he slapped a bit of brimstone into a debate that has simmered for decades. And though his comments elicited so many fierce reactions that he quickly apologized, many were left to wonder: Did he have a point?

LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) — Forget course catalogs and colorful pamphlets.

Think sex, skiing and rock ‘n’ roll.

When it comes to recruiting students for college, admissions officials are turning to increasingly outlandish stunts to get the attention of high schoolers.

The Harvard University president, Lawrence H. Summers, apologized personally on Thursday to a group of distinguished women professors as he battled to convince the university’s faculty of his commitment to diversity after remarks suggesting that women may be innately less able to succeed in math and science careers.

Joing the swarm of students packing University Book Store on State Street, UW-Madison senior Adam Haas waited patiently in a long checkout line Wednesday to pay ro several shrink-wrapped packages that included more than just the books he set out to buy.

Graduation rates at colleges with similar students and resources vary widely, and colleges could do a lot more to improve their numbers, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Education Trust. The report is the first to analyze data culled from the trust’s new database, College Results Online, also introduced on Tuesday.

Harvard University’s president, Lawrence H. Summers, has come under fire by some scholars for suggesting that one reason fewer women make it to the top in mathematics and science may be the result of innate differences from men.

Michael O. Leavitt, President Bush’s nominee to be secretary of health and human services, spoke generally in support of the National Institutes of Health and biomedical research during a friendly confirmation hearing before a U.S. Senate committee on Tuesday.

BERKELEY, Calif. – Ward Connerly ââ?¬â? reviled as an Uncle Tom, hailed as a man of principle and unflinching courage ââ?¬â? is moving on to another battlefield. Connerly’s term as a member of the University of California Board of Regents is drawing to a close after 12 turbulent years in which he led the university, and then the state of California, to drop affirmative action.

Members of a Harvard faculty committee that has examined the recruiting of professors who are women sent a protest letter yesterday to Lawrence H. Summers, the university’s president, saying his recent statements about innate differences between the sexes would only make it harder to attract top candidates.

Call it the revenge of the nerds. While many professions have been slow to hire, accounting firms have been adding to their payrolls, leading to greater pay and perks for the nation’s bean counters.

As students resume classes at Columbia University today after their winter break, they will face the telltale summonses of college life: Go to class, surf the Internet, sleep, pursue romance, sleep.

And a new one: Testify about the alleged misconduct of their professors.

The president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers, who offended some women at an academic conference last week by suggesting that innate differences in sex may explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers, stood by his comments yesterday but said he regretted if they were misunderstood.

President Bush proposed Friday an increase in the government Pell Grants that help lower-income students afford higher education but said he would shave the cost out of a federal student loan program that also provides college aid.

President Bush proposed on Friday an increase in the government Pell Grants that help lower-income students afford higher education but said he would shave the cost out of a federal student loan program that also provides college aid.

The Justice Department plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a lower-court ruling that would allow colleges to restrict military recruiting on campuses without risking the loss of federal money.

A tuition hike appears almost certain for most University of Illinois students next school year, administrators said Thursday, a move immediately criticized by the governor’s office.

At a town-hall meeting in Florida today, President Bush is expected to announce that he will seek to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $500 over the next five years, as well as to close a $4-billion budget shortfall that has plagued the program for the past several years.

The University of Colorado System plans to guarantee admission to its three campuses to high-school students in the state who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class, according to a proposal negotiated over the past several months.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (Reuters) – Harvard University students: overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A little of both, it seems.

Mary Rouse, a former dean of students at UW-Madison who spent the past four years running a student volunteer center on campus, announced Wednesday she will retire in June.

Ever so gradually, the big payoff in wages from a college education is losing its steam, which calls into question the emphasis that the White House, under both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, has placed on a bachelor’s degree as a sure-fire avenue to constantly rising incomes.