[ad_1] two people were killed and five were injured in a shooting just after a high school graduation at Virginia Commonwealth University, NBC News reported. One of those killed was an 18-year-old man who had just graduated. The other was a 36-year-old man who attended the ceremony. A suspect in the killings is a 19-year-old …
[ad_1] Two announcements last month indicate potential ways forward. SUNY-Stony Brook will anchor The New York Climate Exchange, a brand-new, $700 million campus on Governors Island in New York. And, This Is Planet Ed, an initiative of the Aspen Institute, launched a Higher Ed Climate Action Task force, uniting university leaders and other stakeholders like …
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[ad_1] The word veritable has appeared in 58 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on April 4 in “Springsteen Comes Alive” by Lindsay Zoladz: An E Street Band show is an ensemble performance, a veritable rock ’n’ roll circus of eclectic personalities — at its most crowded, there were 18 musicians onstage — …
[ad_1] Chinese universities are instituting tuition increases of as much as 54 percent, Reuters reported. The universities blame a financial crunch among local governments after three years of disruptive COVID-19 policies and a sluggish economy. East China University of Science and Technology raised tuition fees by 54 percent, to 7,700 yuan ($1,082) for freshmen majoring in science, …
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[ad_1] What is liberal education? How can colleges support it? And how can they attract more students to pursue it? At a conference on such questions at Ursinus College, outside Philadelphia, the vice president for enrollment at Grinnell College, a far wealthier liberal arts institution in Iowa, shared the pitch he currently offers students and …
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[ad_1] Lisa Cardoza, vice president for university advancement at California State University, Sacramento, has been appointed president of American River College, also in California. Amy D’Olivo, vice president for academic affairs emerita at Centenary University, in New Jersey, has been selected as vice president for academic affairs there. Tammy K. Evetovich, interim chancellor of the …
[ad_1] High Point University’s Office of Career and Professional Development has a central location on campus, near other offices and academic departments with which it frequently collaborates, according to Vice President Doug Hall. Given the rising cost of college and the vagaries of the job market, students and their families are more worried than ever …
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[ad_1] Columbia University is dropping out of the undergraduate rankings of U.S. News & World Report. The university’s law and medical schools earlier announced that they would not participate, but the undergraduate rankings get more attention. A statement noted that much of the information conveyed in the rankings may be found in the university’s Common …
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[ad_1] The early promise of generative AI like ChatGPT is that it will let people outsource the work they don’t want to do, or don’t have time to do, to the AI. It is a tool of increased speed and efficiency that, we’re told, will allow you to get down to the substantive stuff. If …
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[ad_1] The Ohio State House of Representatives passed a higher education bill last week to ensure that colleges are transparent in their communications about the cost of their degree programs and the returns their graduates can expect on that investment. Ohio House Bill 27, which passed by a vote of 88 to 1 Thursday, would …
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