See free MVCAP e-books on college admissions and financial aid for sharing, printing, and downloading at our online resource library: http://issuu.com/mvcap1. College students socked by budget cuts, by Anna Spinner - via @
"Facing declining tax revenues in the wake of the Great Recession, states are slashing funding for higher education, forcing many colleges to eliminate majors and entire departments."
2. Colleges plan Black History events - TribToday.com - Tribune Chronicle - Warren, OH:
"Black History Month programs and activities with featured guests speakers have been scheduled at both Youngstown State and Kent State universities."
3. Governor, black Ohio lawmakers seek common ground - via @
"Black state lawmakers say they believe they can work with Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) to change sentencing laws, help close the achievement gap among students of different ethnicities and work to promote minority businesses."
4. Class of 2015 follows financial aid pattern, by Felicia Schwartz -
"If an admitted student informs the College that they have received a better offer from another school, the College will see if there are adjustments that can be made to match offers from other schools that continue to operate under no-loans policies, according to Laskaris. “If it’s an [Ivy League] school, we will match it,” Hazen said. “If it’s a non-Ivy, we probably won’t.”
. . . . Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania all offer loan-free financial aid packages, according to their respective websites."
5. Is Completion the Right Goal? by David Moltz - Inside Higher Ed:
"Arthur M. Hauptman, an independent public policy consultant specializing in higher education finance issues, kicked off the event, "Degrees of Difficulty: Can American Higher Education Regain Its Edge?," with his paper arguing that, based on underlying data, the president’s national goal for increasing degree attainment is “almost impossible to achieve in the best of circumstances.”
6. Dealing (With) Drugs at Elite Colleges, by Allie Grasgreen - Inside Higher Ed:
"The busts were unusual not only because they occurred at top-tier institutions within a short time frame, but also because of their scope. In late October, police found a drug lab on the top floor of a Georgetown freshman residence hall. A little over a month later at Columbia, a five-month police investigation (dubbed “Operation Ivy League”) ended in the arrest of five students who sold $11,000 worth of various out of dorm rooms and fraternities. And two weeks after that, police arrested a Cornell student off-campus in possession of $150,000 worth of heroin."
7. UNLV president plans for 'state of fiscal collapse', by Anthony Ramirez - via @
"Smatresk told the faculty group that the cuts for UNLV would total $47.5 million and would need to be implemented by July 2012, so a plan for financial exigency would have to be prepared.UNLV has had about $50 million in cuts over the last four years. . . . If the cuts proposed by Gov. Brian Sandoval were approved, Smatresk said, academic cuts could not be avoided."
8. "But For Ohio State:"with $100 million, Class of 1959 alum Les Wexner makes largest philanthropic gift to university -
"Find out what Ohio State means to Wexner--and tell us what it means to you."
9. How Much is Your College President Costing You? by Brian Burnsed - US News and World Report:
"The sitting president of a private nonprofit college received an average of $475,403, in pay, bonuses, and additional benefits according to a U.S. News analysis of 2008 compensation data amassed by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Twenty of the 362 sitting college presidents received more than $1 million in compensation and two cracked the $2 million threshold."
10. What does $659 million in debt really mean? by Arielle Milkman - via @
"Tomorrow, NYU Local is partnering with MTV darling and former NYU student Andrew Jenks in an event they've titled Casualties of Debt: An NYU Student Demonstration. Jenks explains it best: we are casualties because after we graduate, we may as well be indentured servants. "Our lifetime is going to be spent trying to pay people back for things," Jenks said . . . ."
11. Where Professors Send Their Children to College, by Lynn O'Shaughnessy -
"The children of professors are far more likely to attend liberal arts colleges than other parents. Children of university faculty are about twice as likely to select liberal arts college than children of parents earning more than $100,000 a year. Why are college professors steering their children to liberal arts colleges, which educate a mere 3% of the nation’s college students?
These insiders understand that
liberal arts college focus exclusively on educating undergraduates and offer a boutique education with small classes and personal attention from professors.
In contrast, the main focus for professors at
private and public research universities is conducting their own research and training graduate students.
Educating undergrads is a lower priority. In fact, at universities graduates students often teach many undergraduate classes."
12. Ravitch: The Problem with Teach For America-
"The problem with TFA is that it grossly overstates its role in American education. This year, TFA sent 8,000 young people into high-needs schools; they agree to stay for two years; some stay longer, but most will be gone within three years.This is a small number indeed when you consider that our nation has 4 million teachers. And our most compelling problem is attrition. Of those who enter teaching, 50 percent are gone within five years. These are terrible statistics. We need a stable teaching profession, not a revolving door. We need to recruit new teachers who plan to stay in teaching and make a career of it."
13. A Resident Assistant and His Guide Dog, by Beckie Supiano -
"In this episode, we hear from Matt Simpson, a junior at Washington and Lee University, whose visual impairment hasn’t stopped him from working as an RA."
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