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Tom Joyner Venture Will Help Black Colleges Start Online Programs
The radio-show host's company intends to assist the colleges in competing against for-profit institutions in enrolling minority students.
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"It's always most rewarding when you have everyone's full attention."
Allegra De Vita, a senior in neuroscience at Sacred Heart University, uses her talents as an opera singer to entertain guests at a big university fund-raising dinner.
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Bearing in mind the incredible stress and anxiety that can dismantle even the coolest of job-seeking cucumbers, here are some tips.
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You know the ones: students who ask questions that are supposed to put you in your place. How do you deal?
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Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
Will the king of academe's text mountain be dethroned?
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College Love: John, Harvard, and Me
Some institutional attachments border on the obsessive.
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Professors at U. of North Texas Are Required to Put in Daily Hours on Campus
Faculty members must spend four hours a day on campus, four days each week. They aren't exactly pleased, but fieldwork with students counts, too.
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Public Higher Education Is 'Eroding From All Sides,' Warn Political Scientists
The institutions are facing declining finances and popular support, said scholars at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
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First Report From U. of Phoenix Research Center Attacks Critics of For-Profit Education
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