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20 décembre 2015

University defends policy giving middle-class minorities an edge

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. With the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action hanging by a thread at the Supreme Court, University of Texas officials are struggling to explain a policy that gives an extra edge to Latino and African American students from middle-class households and top-performing high schools. More...
20 décembre 2015

New app feature matches students to compatible universities

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. Boston-based standardized test app developer, LTG Exam Platform (LTG), today announced a new feature called ‘School Matcher’ for its free standardized test preparation apps, Prep4SAT and Prep4GMAT. More...
20 décembre 2015

Parents with a four-year college mindset

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. In the thesis study, Parents’ Predispositions For Four-Year Universities as Discerned by Their Children​, roughly 8 in 10 university students indicated their parents expected them to attend a four-year university. More...
20 décembre 2015

With diversity comes intensity in Amherst free speech debate

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. Hundreds of students crammed into Amherst College’s Robert Frost Library for a sit-in against racial injustice that turned into a confessional, as one black or Hispanic student after another rose to talk about feelings of alienation and invisibility on campus. In the heat of the moment, the students drafted a list of demands for the administration. More...
20 décembre 2015

From megaphones to muzzles

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. It was students in California who birthed a new era on college campuses, one in which collegians would demand to be included, to be treated like adults and to have a very public say on such hotbed issues as civil rights and the Vietnam War. More...
20 décembre 2015

Free course teaches the basics of how to get the most out of college

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. The course, “U101: Understanding College and College Life,” is free through the online learning platform Coursera, which has a worldwide reach. It describes how colleges and universities operate, describes what faculty are looking for in college-level academic work, lists effective study strategies and suggests ways to select a major, among other topics. More...
20 décembre 2015

ASU partners with The MasterCard Foundation

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. Arizona State University will partner with The MasterCard Foundation to create a new social network to support participants of The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program, which prepares next-generation leaders in Africa. More...
20 décembre 2015

CollegeNET and Switchboard partner

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. CollegeNET, a leading provider of Web-based technologies for higher education, today announced that it has teamed with Switchboard, an online engagement platform that specializes in higher education communities. More...
20 décembre 2015

Chrysler expands free tuition program to include employees’ families

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. In May, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) made news by announcing it would offer all employees free tuition at Strayer University. On Monday it is taking the program a step further, expanding it to include employees’ spouses and children. More...
20 décembre 2015

EDMC settlements chart new direction for private-sector education

University Business LogoBy Stefanie Botelho. As someone who has long believed in the importance of private-sector education, I read with interest the announcement that one of the sector's leaders, Education Management Corporation (EDMC), has settled with both the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and attorneys general from 39 states and the District of Columbia. More...
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