Even as colleges nationwide celebrate commencement season, hundreds of schools are failing to graduate a majority of their students in six years, a report says today. Nationally, four-year colleges graduated an average of just 53% of entering students within six years, and "rates below 50%, 40% and even 30% are distressingly easy to find," says the report by the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. It's based on data reported to the Education Department by nearly 1,400 schools about full-time first-time students who entered in fall 2001...
More than 1.2 million freshman entered college in fall 2001, but fewer than 60% graduated from a four-year college within six years, says "Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don't)"...
While women are underrepresented on the science faculties of research universities, they are more likely than men to be interviewed for tenure-track jobs and to receive job offers, and if they are hired and stay, they are at least as likely as men to receive tenure. Those are the conclusions of a study requested by Congress and released Tuesday by the National Academies...
The prospects for women who are scientists and engineers at major research universities have improved, although women continue to face inequalities in salary and access to some other resources, a panel of the National Research Council concludes in a new report...
A report released Tuesday by the National Research Council shows that although females still are underrepresented in the applicant pool for faculty positions in math, science and engineering at major research universities, those who do apply are interviewed and hired at rates higher than those for men. The report also notes that while women are underrepresented among those considered for tenure, those who are considered receive tenure at the same or higher rates than men...
Harvard University will endow a visiting professorship in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, a position that, it believes, will be the first endowed, named chair in the subject at an American college...
After months of complaints by university groups and scientific organizations, the State Department is acting to speed up the delay-plagued visa process for foreign graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, an official said Tuesday...
Extreme binge-drinking may be putting college students at significant risk of accidents and injuries, a new study suggests...
