Are LeTorneau University undergraduates being robbed of credit for a prosthetic knee they invented? The university thinks so, according to The News-Journal. Time recently praised Stanford University's prosthetic knee as one of the best inventions of the year, and that honor led LeTorneau officials to investigate and to challenge [...]
Public and land-grant universities look to the president for aid (and more money) in achieving his goal of growing the ranks of college graduates.
[...]The job market for new college graduates has fallen by as much as 40 percent in the past year, according to new data from the Michigan State University Collegiate Employment Research Institute. The Michigan State study is based on surveys of 2,500 companies and other hiring entities. Last year, [...]
Basic algebra stumps most first-year students at City University of New York freshmen, according to a CUNY report.
“These results are shocking,” said City College Prof. Stanley Ocken, who co-wrote the report on CUNY kids’ skills. “They show that a disturbing proportion of New York City high school graduates lack basic [...]
The Rev. Joe Vetter, the Roman Catholic chaplain at Duke University, is criticizing a study for which female undergraduates were recruited to small parties at which they could see and discuss sex toys, The Raleigh News and Observer reported. The university noted that the study was subject to standard [...]
Texas will judge teacher-training programs based on graduates’ effectiveness in the classroom, reports the Houston Chronicle. Poor programs could lose state accreditation. Till now, programs have been judged only by the percentage of graduates who pass the teacher certification exam.
The biggest change to the accrediting rules — and potentially [...]
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School has a new video microsite up for anyone who might be researching MBA programs. If you go here, you can watch what recent graduates of the program have to say about how [...]
Top-performing students are less likely to choose science, technology, engineering and math majors in college. From Education Week:
For instance, from the 1970s through the 1990s, the percent of the top-performing high school graduates who chose college STEM majors rose. But from the 1990s through the cohort between 2000 and [...]
The Lakeland metro area is No. 6 on a list of national "drop-out capitals" released this week by The Daily Beast. The analysis is based on cities with the lowest percentage of high school graduates.
Bakersfield, Calif. is No. 1. No other Florida cities made the list.
[...]In a down economy, fellowship program witnesses surge in applications from students and recent graduates dealing with a bumpy job market.
[...]Vast majority of colleges have systems in place to measure what undergraduates learn, survey finds. But using that information? That’s another story.
[...]Two recent graduates of Yale University's law school have settled their lawsuit against several people who posted derogatory comments about them anonymously on an online forum for graduate students.
The case, filed in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, was a rare legal challenge to harassing speech made on gossip Web [...]
Two recent graduates of Yale University's law school have settled their lawsuit against several people who posted derogatory comments about them anonymously on an online forum for graduate students.
The case, filed in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut, was a rare legal challenge to harassing speech made on gossip Web [...]
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's call for an overhaul of teacher preparation programs is certainly warranted. Reports such as Arthur Levine's in 2006 have highlighted weaknesses in the training received by many graduates of traditional, university-based teacher preparation programs.A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study how effective games on cellphones are at teaching English to students in rural India.
Led by a professor at Carnegie Mellon, professors, graduate students and undergraduates have been working on developing games over the last six years. Now, because of financial support [...]
Once upon a time, college students could pay their tuition with a mix of family support, financial aid, and perhaps a little work. Today, family support and aid are woefully inadequate for a broad swath of undergraduates, and full-time work is common.Given the music industry's intense campaign to discourage students from downloading music without paying for it, one obvious question is: What attitudes lead students to pay? A new study published on the Social Science Research Network, based on a survey of undergraduates at a Southern private university, finds two [...]
Since 1958, the Federal Perkins Student Loan Program has been providing low-interest loans to needy students via campus-based revolving funds. More than 600,000 students (mostly undergraduates with family incomes under $30,000) receive a Perkins each year. The current Perkins differs from other federal loan programs, [...] Ten percent of young male high school dropouts are in prison compared to three percent of high school graduates, estimates a Northeastern University study. reported in the New York Times.
The picture is even bleaker for African-Americans, with nearly one in four young black male dropouts incarcerated [...]
A five-year-old program at the University of Texas at Austin pairs undergraduates considering graduate school with graduate students -- and seems to be working.
[...]A five-year-old program at the University of Texas at Austin pairs undergraduates considering graduate school with graduate students -- and seems to be working.
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