SUNY to have campus in South Korea
State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher and Stony Brook University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., MD, today announced that the Ministry of Education, Science and…
Month: July 2011
Should undergrads suit up for class?
There’s always one kid on campus who always wears a suit everywhere. Maybe he or she has a professional job or internship off campus…or perhaps that person takes…
Ivy League schools with the best mid-career salaries: PayScale list
According to salary data website PayScale, Princeton University graduates have the highest mid-career salaries (it's also the overall best-paying college in the country and the only college in…
Wright-Patt Credit Union donates $33 million towards higher education
As higher education institutions around the country are being forced to raise their tuition rates in order to recoup their losses from lowered state education budgets, the Wright-Patt…
Beyond Facebook: University connects alums online
A new alumni social networking website launched July 18 by Indiana University (IU) frames connecting with old friends and classmates as an interactive game, as higher education looks…
College fires its entire staff
The delay of a planned merger this fall between Atlantic Union College and Maryland-based Washington Adventist University will result in all of AUC’s faculty and staff being laid…
NSF awards $10 million grant to Stanford University to launch national center to educate entrepreneurial engineers
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to launch a national center for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering, based at Stanford University, reports…
Venture for America to place young entrepreneurs in struggling cities
A new nonprofit is pairing creative, eager entrepreneurs with distressed cities nationwide, reports the Huffington Post.
Board: Foes of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants get signatures to put it to Md. voters
Opponents of allowing in-state tuition for certain illegal immigrants have obtained enough signatures to put the measure on next year’s ballot, a state board formally certified Friday, reports…
Ministry, church sue each other over sale of online university
A Louisville-based ministry and a large Arizona church are suing each other over the disputed sale of an unaccredited online university last year, each accusing the other of…