Tag: Public Policy: Page 58

African-American

College Survey: Finance Worries Up, Politics Shift

Each year since 1966, UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute has conducted a massive survey of incoming freshmen at four-year colleges, asking questions about their motivations, their plans and their political views.

January 24, 2013

Home

Report Discusses Top Trends in Student Enrollment

Trends “have created a marketplace situation where higher education administrators must think differently and evolve in a manner that responds to the needs of individuals, families and our society.”

January 24, 2013

Students

It’s Tough to Trailblaze: Challenges of First-Generation College Students

College attendance has become less of a privilege and more of a necessity in the contemporary workforce.

January 23, 2013

Home

Nation’s Governors Urged to Enhance Online Education Policies

The National Governors Association has advised its state chief executive members to “consider calling for a review of current state laws and regulations surrounding authorization of online programs.”

January 21, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Florida A&M Hires Anti-Hazing Chief

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida A&M University has hired alumnus Bryan F. Smith as its anti-hazing administrator. Interim university President Larry Robinson said Friday that Smith’s job will be ensuring that initiatives adopted after the hazing death of a band member are implemented. Drum major Robert Champion died in 2011 after he was beaten aboard a […]

January 18, 2013

Students

Dartmouth College Ending Advanced Placement Credit

High school students hoping to earn college credits through Advanced Placement exams soon will be out of luck at Dartmouth College, which has concluded the tests aren’t as rigorous as its own classes.

January 17, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Alabama Schools Form Consortium to Boost Health Care Workforce Diversity

College leaders representing more than a dozen Alabama institutions signed up their respective schools to join a state-based consortium organized to increase the number of minorities in the health care professions.

January 13, 2013

Students

One In Four Freshmen Now Starts In January, Not August

When she graduated from her high school in Pittsburgh last spring, Mikaela Molstre didn’t follow her classmates to college.

January 9, 2013

Students

Pew Report Finds that College Degrees Shelter Economic Stability

A recent report released by Pew Charitable Trusts found that graduates holding four-year college degrees are in actuality more protected in a pernicious economy than those with lesser education credentials.

January 9, 2013

Students

‘Whiz’ Doesn’t Begin to Describe This Kid

Philadelphia scholar Cameron Clarke scores a perfect 2400 on the SAT.

January 2, 2013

MSIs

Higher Education Spared Cuts — For Now

Higher education programs and education-related tax breaks get a reprieve of at least 60 days as a result of the agreement by President Obama and Congress that averts the “fiscal cliff.”

January 2, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Embattled U.Va. Rector Lobbying to Keep Position

The head of the University of Virginia’s governing board has been meeting with lawmakers in an attempt to keep her position as opponents lobby for rejection of her reappointment.

December 20, 2012