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Providence Mayor Wants To Tax College Students

The mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers.

The Community College Transfer Problem

Boosting student transfers from community colleges to four-year institutions is a matter of getting all the right policies and programs in place.

Grants & Gifts

The AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND has received $100,000 from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians for scholarships benefiting Native students. ARMSTRONG ATLANTIC STATE UNIVERSITY (Ga.) has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $450,621 as part of the Research in Undergraduate Institutions program. THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK and the MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING […]

BOOK REVIEW: Creatiing a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens

It is not by chance that Dr. Mitchell L. Stevens, the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007), appropriately chooses the word “class” in his book titles.

Naval Academy Graphic Novel to Aid Recruiting

The Naval Academy released a graphic novel Thursday to attract minority students and applicants from areas that don’t send many students to the college, using sharp drawings, tales of saving the world and sound-effect words such as “FZZZZZZZ” and “FZAAAAAAT.”

‘Class of Katrina’ Graduating, 4 Years After Storm

In the months after Hurricane Katrina swamped the University of New Orleans campus in August 2005, the basketball team had to practice across the state line in Texas and played its entire season on the road, winning just three games.

AKAs Seeks End of ‘Old South’ Days at ‘Bama

Members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority are asking the University of Alabama to end the annual “Old South” celebration staged by a White fraternity.

Affording Others the Full Law School Experience

When Anthony Welters attended law school, he spent so many hours at his off-campus jobs that he never truly felt connected to the campus community.

Course Watch: Healthy and Eco-friendly Living

Along the same lines as first lady Michelle Obama’s efforts to plant a White House vegetable garden to promote healthy eating and eco-friendly living, Alfred University (N.Y.) offered a course this semester titled “Eating Locally, Thinking Globally.”

3 Va. Men Hurt in Shooting at Hampton University

A former Hampton University student armed with three guns followed a pizza delivery man into the student’s former dorm early Sunday, shot the delivery man and a dorm monitor, then turned the gun on himself, university officials said.

Civil Rights Pioneer: Education and Service Key to Ending Discrimination, Injustice

The arc of Cleveland Sellers Jr.’s life has taken him from rural South Carolina to the Ivy League, where he earned a master’s at Harvard University, through the civil rights movement into the first-ever campus shooting in the United States, to exile in Greensboro, N.C., and academia in Columbia then back home to the place where it all started — Denmark, S.C.

Asian American Lawmakers in California Charge UC Admission Change Harmful to Asians

As it prepares to turn answer to a California legislative panel, the University of California is defending changes in its new admissions policy that the school says will broaden the eligibility pool for applicants.

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