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College students may get break on textbook expensesUSA Today July 30, 2010Thanks to a new law that took effect this month, colleges must release required book lists at the time of class registration. Publishers must disclose prices and revision information to schools. Proponents say the law will give students more time to take advantage of textbook buy-back programs, book rentals and prices that are often lower online than in college bookstores. They expect it will also force professors to pay more attention to the cost of books they assign. |
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In Whose Interest?Inside Higher Ed July 30, 2010Just a few hours after the U.S. Department of Education released the full text of its proposed regulations to define "gainful employment" last Friday, two groups that rarely weigh in on education issues circulated news releases expressing concern that the rule would limit minority students' access to postsecondary education. Arnold Mitchem, president of the Council for Opportunity in Education doubts that the groups independently became concerned about these issues -- and he's right. |
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Senate Hearing on For-Profits to Feature Video of Government Undercover InvestigationChronicle of Higher Education July 30, 2010A Senate hearing on Wednesday will feature video of college recruiters and admissions officers talking to the investigators, who were posing as students, Democratic aides have said. The aides would not say what the investigation, conducted by the Government Accountability Office, had found, only that it included a "nationally representative" sample of for-profit colleges, and that it found "very similar practices" at both publicly traded and private for-profit colleges, and at large and small institutions. |
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No Christianity Please, We’re AcademicsInside Higher Ed - Opinion Piece July 30, 2010Scholars ought to be concerned that Christians often report that the academy is a hostile environment. Are academics generally glad that such a perception exists? If not, how might it be dispelled? If it is based on genuine experiences, what can be done about a climate that tolerates religious discrimination? Do academic institutions ever try to discover if their Christian students or scholars experience discrimination? |
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Book says many U.S. universities are waste of moneyReuters July 29, 2010Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money And Failing Our Kids - And What We Can Do About It, urges parents and students to consider colleges that spend on teaching instead of sports and which encourage faculty to interact with students instead of doing research, taking sabbaticals and sitting on campus committees. Andrew Hacker, co-author with Claudia Dreifus, said that "Higher education has become the preserve of professors ... (who) really have lost contact with the main purpose of higher education, which is the education of students." |
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Senate Appropriations Panel Approves Spending on Student Aid and NIHChronicle of Higher Education July 29, 2010Many campus-based student-aid programs would receive flat funds under the legislation, as would the Pell Grant program. That differs from the House version of the spending bill, which would supply about $5.7-billion more to the need-based aid program, to cover a budget shortfall, and would maintain the maximum Pell award at $5,550 in the fiscal year, which starts on October 1. |
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Who Profits? Who Learns?New York Times July 29, 2010Enrollment at for-profit colleges and trade schools has tripled in the last decade to about 1.8 million, or nearly 10 percent of the nation's higher education students. These schools, partly because they serve poorer students who need more support, receive almost a quarter of the federal aid. This year, federal financing for financial aid is expected to total $145 billion. |
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Bill to change new GI Bill coming ThursdayMarine Corps Times July 29, 2010A compromise veteran's education bill that would modify the year-old Post-9/11 GI Bill could be introduced in the House of Representatives as early as Thursday by an Idaho lawmaker. |
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AP-Univision Poll: College dreams for HispanicsAP July 29, 2010Despite strong belief in the value of a college diploma, Hispanics more often than not fall short of their goal to pursue a higher education degree. |
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Do Colleges Discriminate Against Poor Whites?Time Magazine - Interview July 28, 2010Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade got an unexpected bout of publicity last week when a New York Times columnist used a 500-page study he published in October, on college-admissions practices at eight elite schools, to argue that working-class whites and whites in rural areas get the short end of the stick. Espenshade was quick to point out that the column had overreached with the data. He talked to Time about his study, "No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal," and detailed what this decade-long admissions investigation did and did not uncover. |
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