The hottest job areas from now to 2016 will be in health care, education, information technology and clean energy, a new report says. And though some require bachelor's degrees or higher, many call for an associate's degree and sometimes additional vocational training...
A summer of anticipation and worst-case-scenario planning has given way to a new academic year of inevitable illness as the H1N1 flu virus appears at colleges and universities across the nation. As many institutions ratchet up to full capacity with students, faculty and staff returning for fall classes, campuses from Kansas to California and just about everywhere in between are beginning to report handfuls to hundreds of cases, mostly among students...
For an increasing number of college administrators, hosting an opening convocation ceremony is not just tradition for tradition's sake; many believe the ritual can improve student retention...
For $200, you can pay for one University of Maryland student's orientation fees. A thousand dollars will buy textbooks for a year, and $8,000 will cover in-state tuition and fees at the flagship campus in College Park. Those suggested gifts, along with videos of students who rely on aid, are featured on a colorful Web site designed for the university's "Keep Me Maryland" campaign. The effort is a catchy twist on something many colleges are trying to do: raise money for immediate student-aid needs...
...For $6,000, the City College of San Francisco is offering sponsors a chance to restore one of the hundreds of classes being canceled because of budget cuts. Even after freezing hiring, cutting student support services, and reducing administrative salaries, the college is facing a $20 million deficit that has forced it to cut or postpone almost 800 courses this year -- about 300 in the fall, and 500 in the spring...
Harvard Medical School is backing off a new student policy that would have restricted interaction with the news media after students complained it would chill their ability to talk about current issues in medicine, school officials said Tuesday...
Washington Monthly magazine came out with its own college rankings today, naming the nation's "best" colleges from a very different vantage point from that of U.S. News and World Report. The Washington Monthly ratings try to measure which colleges do the most for the social good, by improving social mobility, producing research and promoting service...By those lights, the top three universities in the nation are all part of the University of California system: Berkeley, San Diego, and U.C.L.A. Thirteen of the top 20 national universities are public, while Harvard comes in at number 11, Yale at 23, and Princeton at 28. (In the U.S. News rankings, none of the top 20 national universities are public.)...
The University of Texas at Austin is pulling out of the National Merit Scholarship Program to focus on needs-based financial assistance...
