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Five years after the Maryland state university system pledged to reduce by half the agraduation gapa between low-income and minority students and other college students, the gap has widened.

A progress report from the Education Trust, a Washington nonprofit committed to narrowing achievement gaps, shows that graduation rates for low-income and minority students have gone down in Maryland over the past five years, while the completion rate for all students has gone up.Read full article >>

State grant and scholarship programs for college students increasingly favor students who arenat needy, according to a new report.

The report, aBeyond Need and Merit,a comes from the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution. Ostensibly, it recommends that states eliminate the distinction between need-based aid and merit aid and instead award all grant aid by a simple formula that considers both.Read full article >>

Three students from Boston University were killed Saturday and at least five others injured when their minivan flipped in a New Zealand vacation town, according to the Associated Press.

The students were traveling Saturday morning near the town of Taupo, part of a two-van convoy en route to hike the famed Tongariro Crossing. University authorities identified the dead as Daniela Lekhno, Roch Jauberty and Austin Brashears. A fourth student, Margaret Theriault, was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition, officials said.Read full article >>

Here is a guest post by Josh Wyner, executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit that seeks open-minded dialogue and enlightened leadership.

Beginning this month, high school students across the country will be making choices about the colleges they will attend for the next two or four years. Whether they are choosing from among elite private colleges and flagship public universities, or from a list of open-access state four-year and community colleges, how will they and their families make those decisions? Read full article >>

Here is a guest post by Abir Qasem, director of academic computing at Bridgewater College, and Tanya Gupta, a senior resource management officer at World Bank.

The University of Florida recently decided to drastically shrink its computer science department, a move that will save the university around $1.4 million. At the same time, the universityas athletics budget went up by around $2 million. Although there has been a strong reaction against this move in the media, there have been those who supported the UF decision, saying that it was an expression of the free market. For instance, an article in The Atlantic noted that UF Athletics, as a nonprofit entity, returns part of its profit to the university and also receives generous contributions from alumni and others. This line of reasoning implies that athletics should not be cut, as they contribute directly to the collegeas bottom line. However the argument being made is seriously flawed. Letas explore why. Read full article >>

A team of University of Michigan professors have created a new model for funding academic research that potentially eliminates months of delay from when an idea is born till the money arrives to put it in play. Read full article >>

In a recent article, I discussed the arrival of new standardized tests that measure student learning in college a and the prospect for an accountability system in higher education akin to the No Child Left Behind law in K-12.Read full article >>

Harvard and MIT jumped to the front of the free online education movement this week with edX, a $60 million partnership that promises online coursework to the masses from two leading academic brands. Read full article >>

A Here is a guest post from Stephanie Hill, president of Lockheed Martinas Information Systems & Global Solutions-Civil division.

aAre you sure you want to be a software engineer? You are such a people person. Wonat you be stuck working alone, staring at a computer for hours on end?a Read full article >>

Jonathan Gueverra, chief executive of the University of the District of Columbia Community College, has been named president of the Florida Keys Community College, that school announced Monday.

Gueverra was recruited from Northern Virginia Community College three years ago to run the Districtas first community college, created as a separate entity under the University of the District of Columbia. Read full article >>

Nearly 30 years ago, while riffling through sheet music for a campus vocal ensemble, students Adrian Trevisan and Claiborne Booker stumbled upon the aSt. Johnas College March,a the ancient school song.Read full article >>

Capella Education Co., one of the nationas largest for-profit higher education providers, ventured into unaccustomed territory Wednesday by putting 25,000 free academic tutorials online through an education site it owns, Sophia.org.Read full article >>

Here is a guest post from Mark Gordon, president of Defiance College.

Several colleges recently announced triumphantly that their acceptance rates had set a new record a as low as, in some cases, 6 or 7 percent.A Iam still waiting for someone to explain why that is a good thing. Why is it a victory that a college succeeds in seeking out applications from thousands of students, and then doesnat accept almost 95 percent of those applicants? Whom exactly is that helping?A Read full article >>

All of a sudden, the arcane topic of student-loan interest rates has surged to the top of the news cycle. President Obama has placed the issue front and center in his reelection campaign, urging Congress (from various college-campus podiums) to preserve legislation that caps interest rates at 3.4 percent on the main federal student loan program.Read full article >>

Fewer people are giving more money to American colleges, and the industry may be staging a modest rebound from the slowdown in higher-education fundraising that accompanied the 2008 economic downturn, according to a new report. Read full article >>

What if public universities charged tuition at different rates according to how much each studentas courses cost the institution to teach?

aDifferential tuitiona as a pricing concept doesnat get much discussion in higher education; itas easy to get lost in the variables. But Gordon Gee, president of Ohio State University and a national higher education leader, says heas thinking about it. aWe do have to start differentiating tuition costs,a he said, in a visit to the Post this week.Read full article >>

Virginiaas Tony Bennett got his start in college coaching working under his father, Dick, at Wisconsin more than a decade ago. Next season, Bennett will finally have a homecoming of sorts.

The Cavaliers will travel to Madison, Wis., on Nov. 28 to play the Badgers as part of the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Challenge, Virginia announced Monday. It will be the first time Tony Bennett has faced Wisconsin since leaving Coach Bo Ryanas staff in 2003 to join his father at Washington State.Read full article >>

A delegation from the Parliament of Victoria, Australia visited the Manawatu campus this week to learn how Massey helps prepare young people for a career in agriculture.

She may be taking time out to graduate with a Massey University PhD today, but Dr Kirsty Hammond’s research into reducing methane emissions from livestock is continuing overseas.

More than 1300 students will graduate at Palmerston North capping ceremonies this week.

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