News Wire ReportHealthUniversity of Michigan Launches National Center for Institutional DiversityWith a new home and an acting director, and groundwork laid by some of the nation’s leading experts…November 7, 2005HomeSurvey: Investing in College Has Higher Returns, But Americans Prefer Stock MarketThe best path to financial security may not be through the stock market. Putting money into a four-year college…November 6, 2005Community CollegesAdvanced Economies Losing Lead in Education, Says Nonprofit GroupDeveloping countries are rapidly increasing the number and quality of college graduates…November 2, 2005StudentsLatino Teens More Likely Than Blacks, Whites to Attend High Schools, Says ReportHispanic teens are more likely than Blacks and Whites to attend public high schools that have the most studentsNovember 2, 2005HomeCollege Faculty Benefiting from Retirement Plans, Says SurveyTIAA-CREF, the financial services organization and leading provider of retirement security in the academic, medical and cultural fields, this week released the findings from the first-ever “Retirement Confidence Survey of College and University Faculty,” which show…November 1, 2005StudentsFiscal Strains Force Xavier University to Cut Programs, FacultyCampus damages, combined with fiscal uncertainty in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, have prompted Xavier University…November 1, 2005HomeStudy: Students with Higher Math Skills More Likely to Plan to Attend CollegeResults from a recent study of more than 13,000 high school seniors from the class of 2004 showed that students with higher levels of math skills had higher expectations for earning postsecondary education degrees.October 30, 2005StudentsMIT Aims to Demystify Campus by Inviting Minority Grad Students for Weekend VisitJust a few months ago, Miguel Paredes from the University of Lima in Peru thought MIT was an impossible dream. After spending time on campus during the all-expenses-paid graduate preview weekend…October 27, 2005African-AmericanMichigan State Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book PrizeYale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition recently announced that it has awarded the Seventh Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Dr. Laurent Dubois for his study…October 26, 2005HomeUniversity of Georgia Terry College of Business Wins First Place in 2005 National Black MBA Association Case CompetitionA polished presentation prepared by a team of Terry College of Business MBA students from the University of Georgia earned first place in the National Black MBA Association-DaimlerChrysler Case Competition held last weekend in San Diego.October 20, 2005Previous PagePage 17 of 24Next Page
