Tag: Graduate & Professional Schools: Page 2

Students

Growth Rate Slowing for International Applications for Grad School

The biggest factor in the overall decline in the number of grad school applications from abroad was driven mostly by a decline in applications from China, according to the Council of Graduate Schools report.

April 7, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Oberlin Dean Named Next Kenyon College President

A dean at Oberlin College has been named the next president of Kenyon College.

March 18, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Oberlin Dean Named Next Kenyon College President

A dean at Oberlin College has been named the next president of Kenyon College.

March 18, 2013

Students

Rhode Island Can’t Access Student Records at Closed School

Rhode Island higher education officials say a career training school that abruptly shut down has lost its accreditation, and they’re calling on the school to release student records.

January 3, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Southern University Considers Merging Colleges

The proposed plan would consolidate engineering with architecture, agriculture with the natural sciences and business with public policy, among other changes.

November 13, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Talented Young Black Scholars Find an Open Path to Ivy League

With the influx of a new generation of highly trained Black Ph.D.s, Ivy League institutions are aggressively courting these young scholars fresh out of graduate school.

July 20, 2011

HBCUs

Aspiring Business Students with International Immersion Experience in High Demand

Large U.S. companies, such as General Electric Co., Caterpillar Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Wal-Mart, are all hiring for jobs abroad as markets such as Asia continue to grow briskly.

July 12, 2011

Students

Should College Athletes Be Paid?

While a winning athletic program can bring millions of dollars and instant notoriety to a school, some say college athletes are getting played in the process.

May 16, 2011

Students

Hundreds Mark Institute for Recruitment of Teachers’ 20th Anniversary Milestone

Getting first-hand accounts of recruitment program’s success was easy as dozens of alumni gathered in Andover, Mass., to celebrate the IRT’s 20-year anniversary.

March 14, 2011

Community Colleges

Report: Americans Overemphasize College as Key to Upward Mobility

A report released today by Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education says the United States’ increasing emphasis on a single pathway to success is at least partly to blame for the country falling behind other nations.

February 1, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Tenure Crusader

After winning the tenure race, Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore gave it up to help other young professors reach their own tenure goals.

January 10, 2011

Students

Educational Testing Service Provides a Facelift for the GRE

Updated exam, along with the new Personal Potential Index assessment, is expected to help close the achievement gap for minority graduate school applicants.

December 23, 2010