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Stanford University is making changes in how it calculates undergraduate students’ financial aid to exclude the value of home equity, acknowledging that many families may be house rich but cash poor and see college as out of reach.
While not on the agenda, student debt and graduation rates emerged as focuses of last week's University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees meeting where students offered an olive branch to trustees in a plea to freeze rising tuition rates.
"There was no way I could have gone to a university after high school," said Emily Buckner, 20.
When Kimberley Martin attended college at Virginia State University, she was able to take out student loans to cover the majority of her costs, but every semester, Martin and her family would have to work out how they’d pay for the added expense of textbooks.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is quickly becoming commonplace in computers and consumer electronics.
The report released today also recommended the salary schedule be reduced from 30 steps to 25, which would give faculty at least a 2 percent ongoing increase. If the recommendations are accepted, faculty would receive retroactive increases of 2 percent to July 1, 2017, 2 percent to July 1, 2018 and a 4 percent increase beginning Tuesday.
In 2011, then-Texas Governor Rick Perry called on the Lone Star State’s public four-year universities to craft affordable bachelor’s degrees, what the Governor labeled at the time, “$10,000 degrees.”
The numbers are staggeringly low: Only one college in Texas graduated more than 100 African-American men in 2016.
The Education and Culture ministry plans to include lessons on basic life skills, such as disaster mitigation and countering radicalism, in a new curriculum.
The U.S. Olympic Committee fired its chief of sport performance Monday, immediately after publishing an investigation that found major issues with how the organization responded to specific sexual assault allegations made against disgraced doctor Larry Nassar and the environment that its governance structure created for reporting sexual abuse in general.
