Actually, what buys that education is Berea’s $1.1 billion endowment, which puts the college among the nation’s wealthiest. But unlike most well-endowed colleges, Berea has no football team, coed dorms, hot tubs or climbing walls. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, handmade furniture from the college crafts workshops, and 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for students.
But in academia these days, that person is less a subject of ridicule than
of soul-searching about what can done to shorten the time, sometimes
much of a lifetime, it takes for so many graduate students to, well,
graduate. The Council of Graduate Schools, representing 480
universities in the United States and Canada, is halfway through a
seven-year project to explore ways of speeding up the ordeal.
New York’s attorney general is opening an inquiry into the relationships
between universities and providers of study abroad, delivering
subpoenas to five providers on Wednesday with more to come, a senior
lawyer in the office said.
A thick loose-leaf book jammed with charts and graphs details Lee T.
Todd Jr.’s ambitious plans for the University of Kentucky. But in a recent
speech to a chamber of commerce, Dr. Todd, the university’s president,
summed them up in three brisk words: “Research drives jobs.”
The shootings at Virginia Tech may challenge a cherished culture of openness.
As four-year universities have become more expensive, good students who
want to save money are turning to community colleges to earn their core
undergraduate credits.
Kay M. McClenney, director of the annual Community College Survey of
Student Engagement, calls America’s two-year colleges “today’s Ellis
Island,” because they serve a disproportionate number of immigrants,
first-generation citizens and minorities. Article profiles 4 Dream
Catchers who used community college to achieve their goals.
Deriding the ratings system as a 'beauty contest,' dozens of schools have refused to fill out surveys from the newsweekly.
Salaries of full-time college faculty rose 3.8 percent this year, the
biggest increase in five years. Academic salaries vary significantly,
depending on rank and institution, but the overall increases narrowly
beat inflation and were the highest since 2002, according to an annual
survey released April 12 by the American Association of University
Professors.
It was the most selective spring in modern memory at America’s elite schools, according to college admissions officers. More applications poured into top schools this admissions cycle than in any previous year on record. Schools have been sending decision letters to student applicants in recent days, and rejection letters have overwhelmingly outnumbered the acceptances.
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Actually, what buys that education is Berea’s $1.1 billion endowment, which puts the college among the nation’s wealthiest. But unlike most well-endowed colleges, Berea has no football team, coed dorms, hot tubs or climbing walls. Instead, it has a no-frills budget, with food from the college farm, handmade furniture from the college crafts workshops, and 10-hour-a-week campus jobs for students.
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