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International

International Graduate Admissions Decline for First Time in Five Years, U.S. Student Applications and Admissions Increase

With colleges and universities across the U.S. welcoming students back to their campuses this month, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) has reported that offers of admission from U.S. graduate schools to prospective international students fell 3 percent from 2008 to 2009, the first decline since 2004.

August 19, 2009

Students

THE EXPERIMENT

In an age in which free Craigslist online classifieds, self-reported news blogs and a plethora of Web news sources are sapping advertising revenue from print media, many news organizations are searching for new, more viable business models.

August 5, 2009

Latinx

SPECTRUM : SMASHING THE STEROTYPES ON THE BIG SCREEN

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four films that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfield War” and “Born in East L.A.”

August 5, 2009

Latinx

Smashing the Stereotypes On the Big Screen

While attending graduate school at Stanford University, Dr. Chon Noriega watched four fi lms that impacted his life: “Stand and Deliver,” “La Bamba,” “Milagro Beanfi eld War” and “Born in East L.A.”

August 5, 2009

Students

The Experiment

The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism is testing a new model for journalism with an innovative hyperlocal news project with The New York Times.

August 5, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Report Shows Similar Educational Success by Federal Grant Recipients and Non-Recipients

Pell Grant recipients experience patterns of educational success similar to non-beneficiaries of the federal government’s grant aid program, according to a study released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Tuesday.

July 21, 2009

Leadership & Policy

New Commission on Graduate School Formed

The Council of Graduate Schools and the Educational Testing Service have announced the formation of a Commission on the Future of Graduate Education in the United States that is composed of industry and higher education leaders such as Jackson State University President Ronald Mason and TIAA-CREF President Roger Ferguson.

July 1, 2009

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Stimulus Jobs Likely To Be Unevenly Distributed Among Races

President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will do little to improve the unemployment rates of underrepresented minorities, particularly Blacks and Hispanics, in this country, says a new report conducted by researchers at New York University’s Graduate School of Public Service.

May 18, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Study Finds Minorities Underrepresented in Graduate School

To broaden the participation of graduate studies among underrepresented minorities, graduate studies programs must go beyond simply recruiting students from diverse groups and provide students with the support and resources needed to graduate, says a new report released by the Council of Graduate Schools.

April 23, 2009

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Ex-professor in NYC School Noose Case Sues for $200M

A professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who was fired over plagiarism allegations is suing the graduate school for $200 million.

April 22, 2009

Students

Coming Soon: Cash for College Students’ Good Grades

For the past several years economists and educators have been studying the impact of incentives — monetary and other valuable gifts — on student performance. Now a recently launched Web site, GradeFund, takes the idea of incentives and aims to utilize them as a practical solution for paying for college.

January 29, 2009

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Sagging Economy Boosts Business School Applications

With the extraordinary demise of “the Big Five” investment banks in September and the turmoil in the global economy that followed, the casual observer might be forgiven for thinking that this would be a lousy time to be enrolled in a business program.

December 3, 2008