Hispanic students are only half as likely to complete a bachelor’s degree as their non-Hispanic white peers, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the Pew Hispanic Center. (Subscription required.)
Natasha Gill’s classroom crackles with tension. Sixteen Barnard and Columbia College students debate a 1790 law turning priests into employees of the revolutionary French government. Each student clutches a copy of Rousseau’s “Social Contract” and struggles to make a persuasive case with eloquence, apt quotation and chutzpah.
The report by a Madison newspaper that former Congressman Steve Gunderson is being considered as a possible candidate for president of the University of Wisconsin makes for interesting speculation.
That’s because the proposed law, while increasing student loan limits, also would do several things that universities don’t like. Chief among them would be a rule change that could cut certain types of aid to some universities, including UW-Madison.
Coming this fall to colleges and universities nationwide: gender-neutral housing, in response to a rise in activism in support of transgender students.
You say you’re starting the college search and you fall under the LGBTQ umbrella? USA TODAY reporter Mary Beth Marklein asked two undergraduate students and a recent graduate for advice on how you should approach the task. Here’s what they said.
BOSTON — Times have never been better, it seems, to be young, gay and looking to the future.
True, many gay high school students endure verbal harassment, feelings of isolation or worse. But college representatives gathered here on a recent Saturday morning offer the promise of brighter days ahead.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20 ââ?¬â? Katarina Maxianova, who received her bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from Columbia University in May, took a seminar last year in which the professor assigned two articles from New Left Review magazine. She found one immediately through Google; for the other, she had to trek to the library stacks.
“Everyone in class tried to get those articles online,” she said, “and some people didn’t even bother to go to the stacks when they couldn’t Google them.”
Experts estimate that more than a thousand students at American colleges and universities will commit suicide this year. After a death, the grieving family will pack up the victim’s belongings and, within a matter of months, lose touch with the institution. A few families, however, will return with their lawyers to charge that the institution bears legal responsibility. (Subscription required.)
Americans gave more money to charities in 2003 than they did in 2002, but education –Ã? including higher education –Ã? did not benefit from the increase in generosity, according to the annual “Giving USA” report released this week. (Subscription required.)
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has significantly improved the federal database that tracks foreign students, but problems persist with the system, according to a General Accounting Office report that was released on Friday. (Subscription required.)
