University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Olaf College also rank highly due to their exceptional graduation rates and grant rewards. As a result, 736 colleges were considered.

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University Business

JANUARY 3, 2024

Colleges are always looking for new ways to increase their alumni’s enthusiasm to give back in a variety of different ways. But at the end of the day, cash is king, and institutions are always ready to accept monetary gifts that can potentially help increase the student experience. Among the 15 colleges in the nation U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Kornbluth has been appointed president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Williams College, a bachelor’s degree in genetics from Cambridge University as a Herchel Smith Scholar at Emmanuel College, and a Ph.D.

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University Business

MARCH 6, 2024

Female college students have outpaced their male counterparts for up to four decades, while the proportion of women at the helm of U.S. institutions still lags far behind. This year’s gains mark a new milestone now that women run more than a quarter of the world’s highest-ranked institutions.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

gain, according to the latest report by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund (NACUBO-Commonfund). Only three institutions in the top 20 broke the 2023 average gain of 7.7%: the University of California System, John Hopkins University and Duke University. Access the full Excel sheet here.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2023

However, colleges and universities offering premium programs in specific trades like engineering and agriculture helped diversify the list. But above all, the institutions most likely to make this list have at least one notable postgraduate program or are large research universities.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities are discovering new technologies to capitalize on the significant influx of foreign-born students, but there might be no better tool than cold hard cash. Fifteen institutions offer financial aid packages—whether need- or merit-based—that are too enticing to pass up. Wellesley College Mass.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

Innovation is alive and well on campus as R&D on campus is seeing increased investment by college and university leaders. Academic institutions spent $89.9 Institutions that dropped down the list include the University of Minnesota, which slipped two positions even though the flagship spent $31 million more on R&D in 2021.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Melissa Nobles on diversity and equal opportunity in the US education system. The alumni and faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been awarded 100 Nobel prizes. But how is it dealing with diversity and equal opportunity? Read more from Al Jazeera.

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University Business

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s no secret applying to college is a stressful time in both the applicants’ and parents’ lives. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1. Harvard College (MA) 3. Harvard College (MA) 3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6. Princeton University (NJ) 2.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

Lee The initiative comes from university consortium Ivy+ Faculty Advancement Network (FAN), of which UChicago is the host institution. This institute provides a much-desired space for faculty leaders to share, think, make mistakes and process with colleagues in a confidential context,” said Dr. Kiernan Mathews, FAN’s executive director.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In 2020, along with nearly 1,900 colleges and universities including other Ivy League institutions, Yale made standardized testing optional in its admissions process. In particular, some experts argue that the tests are biased against students of color and unfairly benefit students from more privileged backgrounds.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Open Doors data, released on Monday , shows international student numbers in the US have almost returned to pre-pandemic levels, with over one million enrolled in programs at America’s colleges and universities. Contributions by international students at community colleges also rebounded to the figure of $1.5 billion (up 16%).

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

When applying for schools, many parents and students look into how personalized a college’s undergraduates can expect their instruction to be from their teachers. News uses when creating its Best College Rankings. They are seven spots higher on the college ranking after all. California Institute of Technology 3:1 987 #9 2.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

3 United States Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 United States Harvard University (Mass.) 7 United States California Institute of Technology 8 United Kingdom Imperial College of London 9 United States University of California, Berkeley 10 United States Yale University (Conn.)

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

colleges and universities have teamed up in a new effort to help students from rural and small communities attain an undergraduate degree. The Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) College Network aims to build new pathways to college for students who might not otherwise recognize all their options. Sixteen U.S.

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University Business

APRIL 11, 2023

Nonprofit employment trend research company The Burning Glass Institute set out to answer a simple question: How can a four-year finance student’s school choice affect their future salary? The Ivy Leagues dominate the private college list, taking up five out of ten top spots among private schools. The answer is quite a lot.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 24, 2024

Despite the settlement, the institutions in question admitted no wrongdoing. A group of elite universities, including Brown University, Columbia University, Duke University, Emory University, and Yale University, agreed this week to collectively pay $104.5 To date, the settlement funds total at least $151 million.

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University Business

APRIL 13, 2023

That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and late last month they announced some answers. The post Harvard and MIT launch nonprofit to increase college access appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

As the Director of the Virginia Higher Education Procurement Consortium (VHEPC) , I manage $350 million in cooperative contract spending, leveraging collective buying power to create efficiency and value for our 36 member institutions.

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University Business

JANUARY 31, 2023

It’s no surprise that college students have it rough. It’s become the number one priority among college students, according to a recent survey by TimelyMD. Thankfully, 70% of students said their educational institution was meeting their emotional needs through the school’s mental health services.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Jim Cawley , interim president of Rosemont College, in Pennsylvania, has been named to the job on a permanent basis. Eric Heiser , provost at Central Ohio Technical College, has been chosen as president of Coconino Community College, in Arizona. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Kenyon College. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Qussay Al-Attabi, Arabic. Anna Aydinyan, Russian. Katie Black, economics. Joy Brennan, religious studies. Anton Dudley, drama. Patrick Ewell, psychology. Erin Leatherman, statistics. Claire Novotny, anthropology. Sarah Petersen, neuroscience.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blue Mountain Community College was 34 miles away, in Pendleton, Oregon, but 12 of those miles were covered in ice in winter, which would have made commuting difficult. " (Institutions in the network may have different course-equivalency agreements with Outlier.). Instead, he headed to Boston University on a Pell Grant.

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University Business

JULY 10, 2023

On the top of the list sits the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, three schools did see their standings fall, including Stanford University (-2), California Institute of Technology (-9) and the University of Chicago (-1). QS examines 1,500 institutions, 17.5 While eight U.S. Still, the U.S.

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UW Presidential Blog

MAY 17, 2023

As a first-generation college graduate, Tricia knows first-hand how transformative higher education can be, and she is passionate about promoting equity and access to higher education, particularly in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields. She earned her BS in molecular biology from Lehigh University and her Ph.D.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The colleges that rank highest for the most transparent merit scholarships provide clear, easily accessible information on the awards and the criteria they use, according to a new analysis. Regretfully, families will continue to be at a major disadvantage if colleges are not transparent about their ultimate net cost,” Degnan added.

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University Business

OCTOBER 26, 2022

But pursuing higher education is a choice, and students deserve a vast and diverse set of institutions to choose from. Harvard University was ranked the best school globally among 2,165 colleges and universities from 90 countries. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.). University College London (U.K.).

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Kennelly on Monday rejected an attempt by 16 private colleges, all of them well-known, to dismiss an antitrust case against the colleges. ” The grounds for the suit are that the colleges are not completely need-blind, which the colleges deny. Kennelly rejected three separate proposals to dismiss the case.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Students feel positive about how colleges and universities will launch online and hybrid programs in the future but are less enthusiastic about taking online courses themselves. These are the major findings from the 2022 CIN EdTech Student Survey by the College Innovation Network at Western Governors University. Is yours among them?

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University Business

AUGUST 17, 2023

Five former undergraduate students from Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University and Duke University leveled the lawsuit against 568 Presidents Group, a consortium of 17 colleges and universities that collaborated on financial need formulas and received exemption from U.S. antitrust law by practicing need-blind admissions.

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Liaison International

MARCH 1, 2023

Answers: 1H, 2F, 3C, 4I, 5B, 6G, 7A, 8E, 9D Mary McLeod Bethune Founder of Bethune-Cookman University and recognized as the “first lady of the struggle” for her commitment to improving the lives of African Americans through education Ruby Bridges Breaking down the walls of segregation in American education, she was the first African American student (..)

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

As far as private institutions go, four other Ivy League schools can land you at least a $20,000 premium. California schools own the public college top 10 list of data science graduate earnings, earning the first nine spots. More from UB: Did emergency funding create a crutch for the Connecticut college system?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. The higher education institutions conferring honorary degrees on Zelensky committed to assisting Ukraine in other ways.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Arguably the next most famous – the creation of a new wave of ‘modern’, ‘plate glass’, or (at the time), ‘Shakespearean’ universities (including Essex, Lancaster, Sussex, York, Kent, Warwick) and the designation of a series of institutions as polytechnics weren’t actually recommendations from Robbins or his committee at all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

chemical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S., biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.S., Marion Underwood, dean of Purdue’s College of Health and Human Services, in nominating Rodriguez to become a 2023 Emerging Scholar. global health, Harvard T.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Image: Two colleges, one for-profit Chinese education company and too many problems to count. Bay State College in Massachusetts has seen three presidents in three years amid financial struggles that have led to the institution providing limited classes for students and receiving warnings from its accreditor.

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