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As their state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their published tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year, to an average of $7,605, according to the College Board ’s annual reports. When room and board are included, the average in-state student at a public university now pays $16,140 a year
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday will release finalized regulations targeting for-profit colleges that give the government a stronger hand overseeing the fast-growing sector — including new rules reining in how recruiters are paid and a controversial attempt to define credit hours.
Nonprofits have long used the honor roll, a list of benefactors prominently displayed, to inspire others to make gifts. In the last school year, seniors at Dartmouth College and Cornell University turned that tactic on its head, creating a sort of dishonor roll of peers who failed to donate to the class gift.
After receiving 90,000 public comments, and making 82 changes, the Department of Education will release its final rules Thursday to require career colleges to disclose graduation and job placement rates, end misleading recruiting practices and ensure that only eligible students or programs receive federal student aid. The final regulations on these for-profit colleges cover 13 of the 14 program-integrity questions the department has plans to address. The one that remains is the “gainful employment” regulation that would cut off federal student aid to programs whose graduates borrow too much and earn too little to repay their debts.
A student at Emory University told a fellow reveler at a fraternity party early Saturday morning that he was gay.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. – A Massachusetts teen charged with having sexual contact with a bullying victim who later killed herself is returning to court. Prosecutors and attorneys for 19-year-old Austin Renaud of Springfield are due in Hampshire Superior Court on Tuesday to discuss scheduling, including when his trial might start.
The still unresolved case of Marc Hauser, the researcher accused by Harvard of scientific misconduct, points to the painful slowness of the government-university procedure for resolving such charges. It also underscores the difficulty of defining error in a field like animal cognition where inconsistent results are common
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s Education Department approved a textbook that wrongly claims thousands of black troops fought for the Confederacy. The agency is now warning schools about the mistake after a fourth-grader’s parent discovered the error in the Civil War chapter of Our Virginia: Past and Present .
WESTCHESTER, N.Y.