Just 12 miles from the Kremlin, rising from a field once used for agricultural experiments, the new Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology will have a curriculum designed by MIT and financial backing from Russia’s government.
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5/6/2013
Call it the couponing of higher education. After years of skyrocketing tuition costs, many private colleges in the United States are ramping up their financial aid packages in an attempt to attract new students and boost sagging enrollments.
5/6/2013
When he resigned as chancellor after a high-profile admissions scandal, Richard Herman made a $212,000 deal to teach just two classes a year in the College of Education. But the class was canceled for low enrollment — the second time that has happened since 2011.
5/6/2013
Former hedge fund manager Joseph Dowling will join the likes of David Swensen, Jane Mendillo, and Narv Narvekar as the Ivy League's newest chief investment officer.
5/6/2013
The University of New Mexico law school has a new dean. The school announced the appointment of David Herring on Friday.
5/6/2013
Steven R. DiSalvo, president of Marian University of Wisconsin, was appointed this week as the new president of Saint Anselm College.
5/6/2013
The former CIA director is joining the USC faculty to teach classes and mentor ROTC members.
5/5/2013
Illinois’ public colleges and universities could be forced to stamp out smoking on their campuses by next summer if a bill facing members of the House becomes law.
5/5/2013
Only with solid safeguards against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid — that students haven't just Googled their way to an "A+" or gotten the right answers texted to their smartphones.
5/5/2013
North Dakota’s colleges and universities can now enjoy the record budget in the state. The state approved a new system to fund campuses based on credits that students successfully complete, rather than on the number of students enrolled.
5/5/2013
The Boston Marathon bombing has yielded its first change in US security policy, prompted by revelations that a Kazakh college student, a friend of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was allowed to reenter the country even though his student visa had been revoked 16 days earlier because of poor grades.
5/5/2013
In her role as web manager and assistant director of institutional marketing at Elms College Karolina Kilfeather relies on student workers to help carry the department’s workload. She has found that while they may make valuable contributions, students often pose special management challenges.
5/5/2013
MOOCs have been hailed as a revolution in higher education but philosophers at San Jose State University believe the companies making MOOCs are higher education’s version of Walmart—powerful, irrepressible, and threatening to drive professors at smaller universities out of business.
5/5/2013
The problem is not in the immediate domain of our schools, economic developers or marketers. The problem of brain drain is a good bit simpler than that. It is in our communities.
5/5/2013
The Texas House approved a batch of bills Saturday to further soften gun laws that were already among the country's most firearms-friendly, allowing college students to carry handguns in class.
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