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3 octobre 2013

Some Education and Research Web Sites Go Dark Amid Shutdown

By Megan O'Neil. Washington — The budget impasse that brought nonessential operations of the federal government to a halt on Tuesday also had a major impact on Web sites used by many educators, researchers, and students. The shutdown, which triggered furloughs for approximately 800,000 federal workers and the closing of offices, research labs, and national parks across the country, is expected to affect colleges, students, and academic scientists only minimally at first. Read more...

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3 octobre 2013

Quickwire: Khan Academy Tracks Users’ Mastery of Math

By Steve Kolowich. Khan Academy, the nonprofit organization that offers free tutorials on the Web, has introduced a new feature that lets users track their progress toward “mastering” various mathematics concepts. The Web site, a popular resource for students and teachers at many levels of education, uses data analysis to track students’ understanding. The new dashboard is supposed to give students access to more information about what they know, and what they do not, based on how they perform on various exercises. A user—a journalist, say—might log in to the Khan Academy home page, take a brief diagnostic “pretest,” and find out that of the 46 math concepts touched on in that test, he has demonstrated “mastery” of two. Read more...

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3 octobre 2013

Caltech Retains Top Position in Latest World University Rankings

By Ian Wilhelm. For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has retained the No. 1 spot in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Harvard University and the University of Oxford tied for second place, while Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rounded out the top five. Read more...

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3 octobre 2013

Calif. Bill to Let Colleges Charge Higher Fees for In-Demand Courses Advances

By Nick DeSantis. Legislation in California that would allow the state’s community colleges to charge more for high-demand courses during summer and winter terms has passed the State Senate and Assembly and is on the desk of Gov. Jerry Brown. The bill would create a pilot project letting colleges charge all students nonresident tuition rates—as much as $200 per unit—for certain high-demand courses. Read more...

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2 octobre 2013

Moody’s Downgrades Howard U.’s Credit Rating

By Nick DeSantis. Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday downgraded Howard University’s credit rating, citing several financial challenges at the historically black institution, including revenue and enrollment declines and “weak” fund raising. Moody’s assigned $290-million in revenue bonds issued for Howard a rating of Baa1, down from A3, indicating that the agency considers them to be a moderate credit risk, according to The Washington Post. The agency began its review in July, after tensions arose regarding the university’s financial health. Read more...

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2 octobre 2013

Default Rate on Federal Student Loans Climbs Again

By Nick DeSantis. The percentage of borrowers who defaulted on their federal student loans within two years of entering repayment has risen again, to 10 percent, according to data released on Monday by the U.S. Department of Education. Read more...

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2 octobre 2013

Debate Over Paid Recruitment Agents Has Ended—for Now

By Eric Hoover. Toronto — One long chapter has ended, but the book surely hasn’t been shut.
American colleges may pay commissions to international-student recruiters as long as those institutions follow specific guidelines, according to new rules approved by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, or NACAC, here on Saturday. The new policy marks a shift for the association, which had long frowned upon the use of paid agents to recruit overseas. By a vote of 152 to 47, the association’s governing body amended NACAC’s Statement of Principles of Good Practice, the voluntary ethical standards for member colleges and high schools. Read more...

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2 octobre 2013

Quality and Potential in Admissions

By Eric Hoover. Washington — Last week I attended a panel discussion on diversity in higher education sponsored by the Departments of Education and Justice, which issued new guidance on race-conscious admissions policies. The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, federal officials said, affirmed that colleges may consider an applicant’s race, among other factors, without running afoul of the law. Read more...

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2 octobre 2013

Apply to Bard, in 10,000 Words

By Eric Hoover. Bard College will soon offer students a new way to apply for admission, The New York Times reported this weekend. Extra-large thinking caps will be required. Starting this fall, applicants may choose to write four essays—totaling about 10,000 words—in response to a list of intense (my word) research questions. The questions concern Aeschylus, Confucius, and Gogol. One asks about “the origin of chirality (or handedness) in a prebiotic life.” (There are no questions about Miley Cyrus, alas.) Students whose essays receive a B-plus or better will be admitted to the college, regardless of their grades or test scores (the college is test-optional). Read more...

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2 octobre 2013

Has the Cost of College Reached a Tipping Point?

By Beckie Supiano. Toronto — Almost 150 colleges charged $50,000 or more in tuition, fees, room, and board in 2012-13. That one-year price is pretty darn close to the median household income in the United States. So has the cost of college reached a critical tipping point? Read more...

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