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Student body president in CA is illegal immigrant (AP)

Published on November 18, 2010 By rohit

FRESNO, Calif. – The popular student body president at California State University, Fresno has publicly revealed a personal detail he long sought to keep secret: He is an illegal immigrant

Study: 30 private college presidents made more than $1 million (The Christian Science Monitor)

Published on November 16, 2010 By rohit

Parents struggling with high tuition bills might be fuming when they look at the list of the top-paid presidents of private colleges and universities. The annual analysis of tax records by the Chronicle of Higher Education found 30 top executives – out of the 448 institutions the Chronicle surveyed – received a total compensation of more than $1 million in 2008

Higher education may be first to see cuts (The Upshot)

Published on November 12, 2010 By rohit

This week, hundreds of college students and faculty protested at the Louisiana capitol in Baton Rouge against $310 million in cuts to education over the past two years.

Man sentenced to life for NJ schoolyard killings (AP)

Published on November 5, 2010 By

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For-profit schools cry foul on loan rules (Reuters)

Published on November 4, 2010 By

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For-profit schools are opposing what they argue is a “retroactive” crackdown on student loan defaults, and said on Thursday that they may challenge the U.S. Education Department in court. The fight over whether the department can look at default data of students who left school three years ago is the latest twist in a larger battle over new rules aimed at cracking down on tuition loan abuses and ensuring courses lead to gainful employment.

Surprise Cause of College Price Hikes: Midnight Pizza (U.S. News & World Report)

Published on November 1, 2010 By

It isn’t just college tuition that’s rising crazily. There’s growing evidence that the prices of many other everyday items, such as hamburgers, are rising faster on college campuses than they are in the rest of the economy.

APNewsBreak: University posts info of 40K students (AP)

Published on October 29, 2010 By rohit

HONOLULU – The Social Security numbers, grades and other personal information of more than 40,000 former University of Hawaii students were posted online for nearly a year before being removed this week, The Associated Press has learned. University officials told the AP that a faculty member inadvertently uploaded files containing the information to an unprotected server on Nov.

Ed Dept moves to pre-empt for-profits who "game" system (Reuters)

Published on October 28, 2010 By rohit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Education Department’s final rules to rein in for-profit schools, which are accused of failing to educate students while leaving them heavily in debt, would bar incentives to admissions recruiters and limit the creation of new programs.

Can schools ‘eliminate’ bullying, as education secretary says they must? (The Upshot)

Published on October 27, 2010 By rohit

The Obama administration is urging schools to combat bullying after the high-profile suicides of several youths who were facing harassment at school, some of them for being gay or being perceived as gay.

Watchdog: Education foundations not doing enough (AP)

Published on October 27, 2010 By

SEATTLE – A philanthropic watchdog group is hoping to light a fire under charitable foundations that support education by releasing a report Wednesday that points out how few of them focus enough attention on helping the most needy students. The study by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy said that only 11 percent of American foundations devoted at least half their grants to programs that benefit vulnerable students. It looked at 672 foundations that gave at least $1 million to educational causes from 2006 to 2008.