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Student Debt Levels Often Higher At State Schools Than Elite Private Colleges, Analysis Shows
Huffington Post
May 16, 2012
A recent Reuters analysis of student debt at various highly-ranked universities revealed that state schools often leave graduates with greater levels of debt than they'd get by attending Ivy League universities. It all depends on what kind of financial aid programs the schools have to offer - and many state schools, feeling the public budget crunch that has swept the country in recent years, can't provide as much help to cash-strapped students. Tuition and fees at private schools four-year schools increased 28 percent in the last five years; meanwhile the in-state tuition at public schools soared 41 percent.
Higher education linked to longer life, CDC report shows
USA Today
May 16, 2012
Education may not only improve a person's finances, it is also linked to better health habits and a longer life. For instance, people who have a bachelor's degree or higher live about nine years longer than those who don't graduate from high school, according to an annual report, out today, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "Highly educated people tend to have healthier behaviors, avoid unhealthy ones and have more access to medical care when they need it," says the report's lead author.
Backer of Common Core School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board
New York Times
May 16, 2012
David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become the president of the College Board, starting in October. For the last year, Mr. Coleman, a former Rhodes scholar and McKinsey & Company consultant, has been barnstorming the nation, speaking to thousands of teachers to explain and promote the standards. He will succeed Gaston Caperton, who last year announced his plans to step down. Many leading education figures have endorsed the appointment.
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Fairleigh Dickinson University president resigns due to illness
Newark, N.J., Star-Ledger
May 16, 2012
Fairleigh Dickinson University President J. Michael Adams announced his retirement today, acknowledging he is too ill to continue leading the state's largest private university. Adams, who has been president since 1999, was diagnosed with the blood disorder myelodysplastic syndrome. He took a medical leave to have a bone marrow transplant. But the transplant failed to cure the blood disorder and Adams was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a form of cancer, school officials said. he will step down June 30.
MIT Names Its Provost, Who Led Online-Education Efforts, as New President
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 16, 2012
L. Rafael Reif, the university's provost and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty member for 32 years, will assume the presidency on July 2, officials announced. Mr. Reif will succeed Susan Hockfield, who announced in February that she would step down after seven years as the university's first female president. While MIT settled on an internal candidate, the search committee considered more than 100 potential people for the job, university officials said.
Georgetown U. Draws Fire for Invitation to Cabinet Official
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 16, 2012
The archbishop of Washington criticized Georgetown University on Tuesday for its invitation to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, to speak at an awards ceremony on Friday at the university's Public Policy Institute, The Washington Post reported. Ms. Sebelius helped draft the 2010 law overhauling the health-care industry, the Post reported, and she wrote the requirement that employers, including Roman Catholic colleges like Georgetown, provide contraception coverage as part of their health insurance.
College Ends Student Health Plan
Inside Higher Ed
May 16, 2012
Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, announced Tuesday that it will discontinue its student health-insurance plan in the upcoming academic year rather than offer students a plan that would soon include free birth control. The college said the decision was driven by both financial and moral concerns, but it appears likely to become another point of contention in the ongoing debate about contraception, health insurance and religious institutions.
Five years after death of Jerry Falwell Sr., growth booming at Liberty University
Lynchburg, Va., News & Advance
May 16, 2012
In five years, the momentum left by Falwell Sr. has snowballed into rapid growth. The biggest gains come from LU Online, where enrollment has soared from 15,000 students in 2007 to 77,500 this month. Residential enrollment has grown by about 3,000 students to 12,560, about a 30 percent increase. The curriculum has swelled to more than 260 academic programs, including a film school that opened in January. In 2013, Liberty plans to admit its first class of medical students, perhaps the biggest academic milestone since the law school opened in 2004.
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