A record 29,000 people have applied for a spot in next fall's freshman class at Harvard University. Harvard's admissions office said Wednesday that the applications this year beat the nearly 27,500 people who applied last year. Each student is vying for one of just 1,700 spots...
The 2008 presidential election helped catapult today's college freshmen to a level of political involvement not seen in decades, a survey released today suggests. A record 35.6% of first-year students said they frequently discussed politics in the past year; the previous high was 33.6% in 1968. The annual survey began in 1966...
In a year of political change, college freshmen were more plugged into current events than they have been since 1968. A record proportion—35.6 percent—said they discussed politics frequently during the last year, according to the latest installment of a long-running survey of freshmen...Those findings come from the annual survey of freshmen at four-year colleges nationwide conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles... (paid subscription required)
More than ever, politics and money are on the minds of new college students. The latest installment of a giant annual survey of college freshmen shows political engagement at a 40-year high, and more students than ever planning to take jobs on the side and settling for second-choice schools...
The University of California's president, Mark G. Yudof, will propose that the university promise to cover tuition and fees for undergraduate students whose families make less than the state's median household income, $60,000 per year... (paid subscription required)
Many of the findings produced by a new in-depth study of the educational and employment outcomes of low-income students fell into the category, as the researcher Louis S. Jacobson described them, of “the truths your mother told you” — in other words, they mostly confirmed widely held suppositions about the links between education and work force success. Being from a low-income background hurts students’ chances of educational progress. Those who struggle in high school tend to fare less well in college and beyond. The further one advances educationally, the better one fares economically. Taking courses in fields that pay well tends to produce higher wages...
...Ten years ago in a tiny, underequipped laboratory in the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Professor James "Jamie" Thomson, an embryologist, extracted the first human embryonic stem cells from an embryo...Last year, at a conference in New York City calling itself the World Stem Cell Summit, it was projected that the market for stem cell clinical products could reach $8.5bn within a decade...While stem cell research has been hailed for its prospects for future wonder cures, scientists are divided over the merits of the two basic cell strategies: adult and embryonic...Thus the question arises: where do governments and investors put their money?...
