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Quick Takes | Higher education round-up: Nov. 30

Source: Daily Pennsylvanian , Nov 30 2012, 12:57am CST

More than 58 percent of Brown students oppose the school’s use of race-based affirmative action in the admissions process, according to a Brown Daily Herald poll. The Herald reported Thursday that just 34.5 percent of students said they supported the ...

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Help 9 million students now or pay Medicaid later

Source: HeraldOnline.com  |   May 25 2013, 3:19pm CDT

The myth is that the U.S. should be doing a better job of preparing underprivileged high school students, so they can win scholarships to Yale, Harvard and other top schools. Then they can march across commencement sta ...

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Affirmative action

Source: The Incidental Economist  |   May 25 2013, 3:13pm CDT

Hank’s email happened to arrive at the end of our admissions season. I’ve read more than 100 admissions folders this year in my capacity chairing our school’s MA-level admissions committee. This is a weighty responsibility. Ethical, leg ...

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The online threat to the American professor

Source: Al Jazeera  |   May 25 2013, 8:38am CDT

Its contents revealed the growing polarisation within the US university system regarding the emergence of MOOCs - Massive Open Online Courses - as alternatives to live teaching by a physically present professor. For those who bel ...

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Council of Higher Secondary Education will publish Plus II results on May 29

Source: Times of India  |   May 24 2013, 7:42pm CDT

higher education minister Badrinarayan Patra announced here on Thursday. Application for Plus III admission will start three days later on June 1. "Results of all the streams will be published at 11 am on Ma ...

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Donna Randall: Opening the Door to Private Higher Education

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 24 2013, 4:29pm CDT

The current debate in Congress about hiking the student loan interest rates has once again raised questions for America's families about the affordability of higher education. Families' concerns are real--an investment in ...

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How Colleges Could Stop Raising Tuitions

Source: The Huffington Post  |   May 24 2013, 9:44am CDT

By Mitchell D. Weiss The student loan crisis deserves all the attention it has attracted -- and more -- especially if we're serious about tackling this trillion-dollar tragedy in a comprehensive way. But let's not make the mist ...

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CBSE students lose out in race for college admission

Source: The Hindu  |   May 23 2013, 11:01pm CDT

That Standard XII students of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) lose out on admissions in good courses, in arts and science colleges, because they start the race from much behind their counterparts from the State Board, has become a nor ...

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Higher Ed in 2018

Source: Minding the Campus  |   May 23 2013, 9:23am CDT

Rising tuition, declining government subsidies, stagnant endowments, and increased competition are challenging higher education like never before. College and university leaders are struggling to understand where these changes will lead and how they ...

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2 days ago

College Degrees Tied to Higher Employment Rates, but Student Loan Debt and Delinquency Reach All Time High

Source: MarketWire  |   May 23 2013, 7:10am CDT

WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - Total student loan debt -- the only form of loan debt that has increased since the recession -- stood at nearly $1 trillion in 2012 and delinquency on student loan debt has also ...

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Two-year colleges serve more disadvantaged students with less money

Source: Inside Higher Ed  |   May 23 2013, 2:32am CDT

Economic and racial stratification is increasing in American higher education, with growing concentrations of needy students at community colleges. Meanwhile, government funding skews toward universities with ...

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