Opinion
- Graduation Party Supplies Help Celebrate Your Graduate
- High school and college graduations are important milestones in the lives of students and their families. Great efforts are made to balance arduous work and school schedules in order to graduate from educational institutions
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- How to haggle for that college money
- Over the next week, most colleges will give high school seniors the good news -- who got in where -- and the bad news -- how much it will cost.
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- New Report Finds Modest Gains in America's College Attainment Rates; Speed of Progress Must be Accelerated to Improve Our Nation's Prospects
- As college completion rates continue to climb in other parts of the world, a new report released today by Lumina Foundation shows that we must do significantly more to build on the modest gains in higher education attainment seen here at home.
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- Why College Students Stop Short of a Degree
- There are some high-profile cases of dropouts-made-good like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, but the majority are not so fortunate. The United States has the highest dropout rate in the industrialized world, according to a Harvard analysis of data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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- Dr. Joseph Duffey to Speak at Walden University Academic Residency
- Distinguished higher education, business and government leader speaks to doctoral students March 24 in Arlington, Va.
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- Q&A: Stanford's Hazel Markus on how college culture may affect first-generation students
- Stanford psychologist Hazel Rose Markus, one of the authors of the study examining the cultural mismatch that may undermine academic achievement, discusses the findings with the Stanford News Service.
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- Making the Most of College Tax Breaks
- It's too bad colleges don't offer a class in "advanced tax strategies" to all freshmen, along with those study skills, health and diversity sessions. That extra expertise would come in handy for anyone trying to sort through the profusion of education credits and deductions that can help offset college costs.
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- SRI International Releases Report for U.S. Department of Education on Costs and Benefits of Online Learning Programs
- A new SRI International report prepared for the U.S. Department of Education provides guidance to educational leaders as they work to implement successful, cost-effective online learning programs for secondary schools.
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- ONline-learning must synch or sink, researcher says
- According to one University of Alberta researcher, people looking to further their education through e-learning may want to look carefully at the conditions under which online coursework will give them the biggest academic return on their investment.
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- High school whiz kids may face reading comprehension issues in university
- Everyone knows a high-school high achiever who has floundered in university. Now U of A researcher and Reading Research Lab director George Georgiou may have an explanation for the problem.
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- Educated women quit work as spouses earn more
- It shows that between 1993 and 2006, there was a decline in the workforce of 0.1 percent a year on average in the number of college-educated women, with similarly educated spouses.
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- Study abroad? Why American students head north
- More students these days are thinking like Ross. Almost 10,000 American students are heading to Canada for higher education every year for the past five years, according to the Canadian Embassy in Washington, up from just 2,300 15 years ago.
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- Faculty retention proves a major challenge for universities
- New study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows men and women faculty retained at same rate; But median retention rate for all university professors is only 11 years
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- Peter Thiel, university-hater, heads to campus
- Peter Thiel, the superstar Silicon Valley investor, has famously dismissed university as a waste of time and money, and even offered students cash to drop out.
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- Harvard University Elects James W Breyer to Corporation
- The Harvard University announced that James W. Breyer, a leading venture capitalist, will join the President and Fellows of Harvard College, also known as the Harvard Corporation, on July 1, 2013.
- Sacred Heart University Names Bobby Valentine Athletics Director
- The Sacred Heart University sports community gets a shot in the arm with the joining of Bobby Valentine, a big name in baseball circle. On Tuesday he was named executive director of Intercollegiate Athletics by the university.
- Eastern Michigan University to Host Unplug Event
- The Eastern Michigan University will observe an unplugged event on Wednesday, Feb 27 at 5 p.m in the Multi-Cultural Lounge of King Hall on Ypsilanti campus of Eastern Michigan University.
- Energy Secretary Chu to Resume Teaching Physics at Stanford University
- United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will head back to the Stanford University to join the faculty after he demits his office this year.
- John F Kerry Will Make First Policy Speech at University of Virginia
- US Secretary of State, John F. Kerry will speak at the University of Virginia on Feb 20. It's said to be his first public remarks after succeeding Hillary Clinton earlier this year.
- EMU Marching Band to Perform on Detroit Public TV Music Show
- The Eastern Michigan University Marching Band will be featured on the nationally syndicated television show, "Ariel, Zoey, & Eli, Too," aired on Detroit Public Television (WTVS), Friday, Feb. 15, at 5 p.m, said the university.
