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Giving Choice and Taking It Away
Inside Higher Ed
January 7, 2009
It's all about the students. That's the message that the College Board has been sending about its controversial Score Choice program since it was announced in June. That's not quite the message the board has been sending colleges - which are being explicitly offered options by the College Board that would limit student choice over scores or result in admissions offices having score information that students might not want reviewed.
Obama’s College Costs Discussion
Inside Higher Ed Quick Take
January 7, 2009
The Obama transition Web site is sponsoring an online discussion on college costs - noting both the interest of many in the issue and the recent death of Claiborne Pell, who as a Democratic U.S. senator from Rhode Island led the fight to create the grant program named for him. Numerous comments deal both with policy alternatives and the personal situations of individuals trying to pay for college.
Inside Higher Ed
January 7, 2009
I think there's a general skepticism that people that are in this for profit aren't going to serve their students well. I feel the other way around, because if DeVry doesn't serve their students, we'll be out of business. I was president of the University of Michigan. It's not going out of business anytime in our lifetime. DeVry could go out of business in years - not in decades - if it wasn't serving its students.
Other News
In Move Seen as Harbinger, Small Nebraska College Suspends Retirement Contributions
Chronicle of Higher Education
January 7, 2009
Two years after budget pressures prompted Dana College to eliminate some academic programs and lay off tenured faculty members, the institution is trying a different tactic amid worsening economic conditions: ending its retirement contributions for all employees. The decision by the private liberal-arts institution is uncommon, but one that other colleges are expected to consider as a way to stave off additional layoffs.
Sue Wesselkamper, longtime Chaminade University president, dies
Honolulu Advertiser
January 3, 2009
Longtime Chaminade University President Mary Civille "Call me Sue" Wesselkamper, who took over the foundering Catholic college at the brink of closure and led it into an era of unprecedented academic and financial success, died today. Wesselkamper, who headed Hawai'i's only Catholic university for 13 years, was diagnosed with cancer in 2005. She died peacefully from its complications at 3:45 a.m. surrounded by family and friends, university officials said.
Community opens wallet to help Morris Brown pay bills
Atlanta Journal Constitution
January 4, 2009
For the second Saturday in a row, supporters of a school created by slaves have held a rally/fund-raiser to save it. As of Friday, they had raised enough to make a $100,000 partial payment on an overdue water bill.
DePaul is making science female-friendly
Chicago Sun-Times
January 3, 2009
Nationally, half of chemistry majors are female, but only 40 percent of graduate students are women. But at DePaul University, 61 percent of chemistry students are women. The school is promoting its female friendliness as it opens a new science facility Monday featuring 130,000 square feet of space and state-of-the-art labs and classrooms. It also has more student space for collaborating and congregating and more communal teaching space. Some research suggests women work better in those situations.
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