The U.S. House of Representatives approved two controversial amendments related to student aid and research grants on Thursday before voting to pass a bill financing the Education Department and the National Institutes of Health in the 2005 fiscal year. (Subscription required.)
In the past, many Minnesota high school students considered the University to be a ââ?¬Å?back-up schoolââ?¬Â ââ?¬â? one to attend only if top choices didnââ?¬â?¢t pan out, Craig Swan, University vice provost for undergraduate education, said.
But, Swan said, the University is gaining more respect from prospective students
The University has a multitude of policies that standardize and regulate its actions in a variety of fields — ranging from undergraduate drinking to alumni donations. But having experienced the controversy regarding the alteration of a photograph for its commencement brochure, the University is still not planning to implement any policy to ensure that such incidents will not happen again.
The number of foreign students granted admission to American graduate schools dropped by 18 percent from 2003 to 2004, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Council of Graduate Schools.
The report, based on the second survey in a planned series of three, presents a new round of sobering data on the continuing downward trend in graduate admissions since the terror attacks of 2001.
The problem for many students is that “affordable” is becoming a relative term in public higher education. As is generally the case in periods of economic stagnation, even the least-expensive public colleges have been hitting their students with one hefty tuition increase after another. (Subscription required.)
Nobody on this University of Massachusetts campus imagined that the institution might be creating the next darling of the nanotechnology world when it set out to create a solar-energy company based on a scientific breakthrough by its best-known professor. (Subscription required.)
The decision of the U.S. government to revoke the visa of Tariq Ramadan, a prominent but controversial European Muslim scholar who was scheduled to teach at the University of Notre Dame, has led to protests that post-September 11 visa restrictions are being used to keep out an intellectual with unpopular ideas. (Subscription required.)
Winning sports teams do not necessarily translate into bigger gifts from alumni or better students in the applicant pool, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. (Subscription required.)
USA TODAY’s annual survey of tuition costs at 67 public flagship universities shows tuitions are still climbing, though less than in the past two years.
U.S. graduate schools this year saw a 28% decline in applications from international students and an 18% drop in admissions, a finding that some experts say threatens higher education’s ability to maintain its reputation for offering high-quality programs.
A USA TODAY 50-state survey of 67 public flagship universities (at least one from each state) shows that tuition is continuing to climb this year, but less than in the past two years.
A trio of reports released separately today focus on student well-being and its effect on learning. One study urges schools to keep students ââ?¬Å?engagedââ?¬Â in school or risk worsening social problems.
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Gizelle Clemens’ first day at Trinity College was a busy one. There were ice-breakers, and introductions to other minority students, upperclass mentors and administrators. Then came a bus tour of Hartford’s ethnic neighborhoods, pointing out places students can go for a braided haircut or Latino music or a Jamaican dinner.
The price tag for college tuition is continuing to climb this year, but experts are predicting less sticker shock than in the past two years.
Instead of cheering on the Appleton West High School Terrors together this fall, close friends Laura Clementi and Lilian Santos will attend football games on campuses four hours apart.
President Bush, accepting his party’s nomination here Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, highlighted proposals to give more money to community colleges to help them retrain more workers and to create a new Pell Grant program to reward needy students who take specific college-preparatory courses. (Subscription required.)
ALBANY, New York (AP) — Marvin Phillips is spending a lot of time this summer at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino, taking in some poker, roulette and live music. Not for pleasure — for college credit.
The 21-year-old from the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation will enter his senior year at Morrisville State College in September as part of a growing movement: College educated blackjack dealers, casino security experts, restaurant and entertainment operators and gaming managers
Colleene Thomas says she’s well aware that her vote – and those of her fellow students at the UW-Madison and other college campuses across the state – could decide who’s sitting in the White House next January.
The pressure on smart kids to get into top schools has never been higher. But the differences between these schools and the next tier down have never been smaller.
NEW YORK (AP) — College campuses are stirring back to life, and Eric Hoplin’s vote machine is ready to spring into action.
Former UW Regent Nino Amato took his tuition-freeze message to the Capitol Tuesday but, just as when he offered it to his fellow regents, he didn’t get very far.
Recent recommendations by a Congressional committee have shifted the debate over “open access” — whether scientific journals ought to be freely available to the public — from trading barbs and sound bites in the news media to direct lobbying of the National Institutes of Health, including letter-writing campaigns and meetings with government officials. Two such meetings took place here this week. (Subscription required.)
Like almost any student preparing to move into a freshman dormitory, Nora Goldberger spent much of the summer batting around questions about college life: Would she struggle to make friends? Which courses should she take, and which ones should she avoid? How would she get her laundry done? (Subscription required.)
A western Wisconsin community college is readying workers for an emerging industry that has big potential using materials 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
Chippewa Valley Technical College has enrolled its first eight students in a new, two-year technician program that will offer an associate’s degree in nanoscience technology, which involves working with materials so small they can only be viewed under the most powerful microscopes
SAT scores for the high school class of 2004 were mostly the same as a year ago, though scores for some minority groups showed an encouraging increase.
The average cumulative score on the country’s most widely taken college entrance exam was 1026, the same as for the class of 2003. Scores on the verbal section rose one point to 508 while math scores fell one point to 518.
WASHINGTON ââ?¬â? More than a half-million minority students in the high school class of 2004 took the SAT ââ?¬â? a record and a sign that the nation’s college-bound population is growing more diverse.
Republicans approved a platform on Monday, the opening day of their national convention here, that calls for, among other things, the continuation of President Bush’s policy of limited support for stem-cell research and the enactment of permanent tax cuts that have important implications for colleges. (Subscription required.)
A shadow of apprehension has crept over UC Berkeley as classes for the new year begin today: New budget cuts threaten Cal’s standing as America’s top-ranked public university.
MADISON ââ?¬â? When the news broke about Minnesota and Wisconsin sharing first-place rankings in this yearââ?¬â?¢s ACT college entrance exam scores, one reporter asked a question that was simultaneously amusing and serious: ââ?¬Å?Could Vikings fans really be this smart?ââ?¬Â
Three students were killed Friday morning in a fire that destroyed a fraternity house at the University of Mississippi. No one else was injured.
The federal government is considering extending security clearances to foreign students and scholars for up to the duration of their study or appointment, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. The current clearances are good for only one year, and the need for regular renewals has led to delays for foreigners coming to American campuses. (Subscription required.)
At her family’s home in Georgia this summer, Sara Waldman watched as the computer churned out her potential matches, kindred souls who thrive on fun weekends and hard work and scrupulous housekeeping. (Login required.)
CHICAGO – Young Han tried to register to vote in the New York town where he attends college but got a letter telling him to cast an absentee ballot where his parents live, more than 2,000 miles away. In Virginia, Luther Lowe and Serene Alami were told much the same ââ?¬â? their campus addresses at the College of William & Mary were deemed “temporary.”
True or false: There have always been lights at Wrigley Field.
Megan Curran, an 18-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee freshman is incredulous.
The answer is false.
Thousands of students at several campuses of Indiana University cannot gain access to their federal financial aid because of computer problems stemming from recent software changes. (Subscription required.)
More than a decade ago, Congress decided it was giving away too much to the student loan industry, needlessly guaranteeing big profits at taxpayer expense. So lawmakers put their collective feet down, passing a law that gradually erased hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies that could have gone directly to students instead.
Or so they thought. (Login required.)
Princeton, N.J. — Starting salaries for new graduates vary greatly, says CollegeJournal.com, the Wall Street Journal’s guide for career-minded college students. (Capital Times, from PRNewswire)
Less than three hours after he was sworn in as a state Supreme Court justice, Louis Butler paid a visit to his alma mater and reflected on his life’s journey.
Like his predecessor, UW System President-elect Kevin Reilly is eligible to use up to 20 work days per year serving on corporate boards of directors….The 20-day provision is outlined in Reilly’s contract, which the UW System provided at the request of The Capital Times.
Homeland security has become a hot topic in American culture, and higher education has been jumping on the bandwagon. Hundreds of community colleges, four-year universities and postgraduate programs have begun offering degrees and certificates in emergency preparedness, counterterrorism and security. Students study topics from political science and psychology to engineering and biotechnology to prepare for possible disasters.
As the U.S. population ages, medical schools are looking for creative ways to boost new doctors’ interest in the specialized needs of elderly patients
A Muslim scholar who had accepted a position at the University of Notre Dame had his visa revoked earlier this month at the request of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Subscription required.)
Some of the nation’s top schools have aligned themselves with fee-based digital music services for students.
The University of California at Berkeley and the University of Minnesota have signed deals with RealNetworks to offer the company’s online music service at a greatly reduced rate to students on the campuses. (Subscription required.)
LOS ANGELES ââ?¬â? When Lisa Staib was choosing colleges this spring, her cousin, a Penn State student, helped sway her decision by describing an unusual campus perk: free Napster. A onetime Internet music outlaw, Napster’s gone legit.
The first major changes to federal wage and labor laws in more than 50 years have colleges and universities scrambling to determine whether some of their employees are eligible for overtime pay. (Subscription required.)
It was embarrassing enough when an Eckerd College trip overseas celebrating the glory of Europe last winter culminated in a group of students’ sampling too much of the local vintage, insulting the residents and keeping guests at their hotel awake with their drunken revelry.
But after another student on one of Eckerd’s overseas excursions studying human rights and diplomacy decided to settle a political disagreement with his fists less than six months later, the college had had enough.
Melba Munguia is so determined to be a college student that, like hundreds of thousands of other young people, she has practically become one in high school.
(MADISON) — For the third year in a row, UW News and World Report has ranked the University of Wisconsin the 7th best public school in the nation.
NEW YORKÃ? ââ?¬â?Ã? This month marks the first anniversary of a student tracking system that has nabbed 155 individuals in its first year for various suspicious activities, including using forged documents.
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) (search) is a nationwide electronic system launched last August that houses information on foreign students and exchange visitors to the United States.
At Barnard College in New York, administrators read over lifestyle surveys and even a student essay in their efforts to make a successful freshman roommate match. At Michigan, they separate the smokers but leave the rest to chance. The University of Utah lets freshmen find their own roommates from anonymous profiles online.
University of Wisconsin tuition would increase annually by about 4.3 percent for the next two years under a proposal passed by the Board of Regents. It was the first step in the university’s budget process.
University of Wisconsin-Madison officials have learned the school is ranked as the seventh best public university in the country. While saying it was great to be recognized as a good university, Provost Peter Spear said Thursday that prospective students and their families should use caution when comparing colleges on the U.S. News and World Report list.
The University of Wisconsin must freeze tuition to make higher education affordable to working families, Nino Amato, the ousted regent, said in his farewell to the board.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents will forward a 2005-’07 operating budget request to the governor that envisions no more than 4.3% in tuition increases annually coupled with a 7.2% yearly increase in state spending on the universities.
For the second straight year, Harvard and Princeton universities share the top spot in U.S. News & World Report’s controversial rankings of ââ?¬Å?America’s Best Colleges
After years of outperforming other states that have heavy participation in a college entrance exam that’s popular in the Midwest, Wisconsin this year shares its ACT top score with Minnesota.
The SAT and ACT will introduce essay tests next year as part of their college entrance exams. Both tests will ask students to respond in longhand to a question, or ââ?¬Å?prompt,ââ?¬Â under a tight deadline. But the tests will differ in some significant ways, too.
The national average composite score for the ACT college entrance exam increased this year for the first time in seven years, a report released Tuesday says. But it adds that an ââ?¬Å?alarming numberââ?¬Â of 2004 graduates who took the test are unprepared for college science and math course
To date, nearly 350 colleges have told the College Board that they plan to require students to take a writing test as part of their college entrance exam.
