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Chester College is closing its doors

Boston Globe
May 19, 2012

Chester College of New England is closing its doors. Chester College was founded in 1965 and had an enrollment this year of 144 students. The college projected a deficit of more than $500,000. Officials from Chester College and New England College released a joint statement on Friday. They are announcing an agreement between the schools allowing for all students currently enrolled or accepted to Chester College to enroll automatically at New England College.

Donors boosting private liberal-arts schools

Harrisburg, Pa., Patriot-News
May 19, 2012

State-owned colleges and universities confront crushing cuts in state funding. Students face higher tuition, along with hikes in interest rates for subsidized federal loans. Meanwhile, private liberal-arts schools are holding their ground, even growing. Dickinson College is the latest to announce a major expansion. Amid bleak economic times, Dickinson not only wrapped up its most ambitious capital campaign to date, but it immediately launched a second phase that has garnered several $1 million gifts. And Dickinson isn't the only private college enjoying donor generosity.

Thousands set to lose their Pell Grant aid

Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek Calif.
May 19, 2012

Among those who will lose Pell Grants in the summer are at least 65,000 new college students without high school diplomas and 63,000 who have spent more than six years in college. Changes in income requirements will reduce or eliminate grants for nearly 300,000 others. Time in school amounting to the equivalent of six full-time years is the new limit on how long a student may receive Pell Grants. The scholarships previously were available for nine years.

Romney doesn’t get college connection

Times Daily, Florence, Ala. - Commentary
May 19, 2012

The money now owed from college loans has rekindled intertwining debates over the reasons for skyrocketing college costs and whether the diploma is worth its prodigious price tag. The first question, one I've asked many college presidents over the years, is worth serious study. However, the second question has already been answered many, many times: A college degree is worthwhile not only for its individual recipient but also for his or her community. The only real mystery is this: Why do so many politicians seem unaware of that?

Newberry College president named

The State, Columbia, S.C.
May 19, 2012

Maurice Scherrens, senior vice president and chief operating officer at George Mason University, has been named president at Newberry College. He starts in August. At George Mason, Scherrens oversaw government relations, institutional planning and research, and campus development. Enrollment rose by 28,000 in his 30 years at the Fairfax, Va., school.

Chinese communist leaders denounce U.S. values but send children to U.S. colleges

Washington Post
May 19, 2012

In some ways, the rush to U.S. campuses by China's Communist Party "red nobility" simply reflects China's national infatuation with American education. But the kin of senior party officials are a special case: They rarely attend state schools but congregate instead at top-tier - and very expensive - private colleges, a stark rejection of the egalitarian ideals that brought the Communist Party to power in 1949.

An honor? Yes. An easy gig? No.

Washington Post
May 19, 2012

An invitation to be seated on the commencement stage is one of the highest honors a university can bestow. Especially coveted is the opportunity to address the graduating class. But universities have learned to be strategic about whom they select because the choices are sometimes fraught with political risks.

Students describe college debt problems to Harkin

Quad City Times, Davenport, Iowa
May 18, 2012

More than a dozen students and administrators from area colleges took part in the public discussion Friday afternoon at the Kahl Educational Center, the latest in a string of events that have been held in the state to highlight the impending increase. The most high-profile event was President Barack Obama's visit to the University of Iowa last month to call for a yearlong extension of the lower rates.

Friendly Call for Gauging Productivity

Inside Higher Ed
May 18, 2012

Arguing that higher education must do a better job defining and tracking productivity, but that the current models for doing so are inadequate, the National Research Council released a book-length study Thursday suggesting a new set of metrics that would allow for a sectorwide look at productivity.

What We Don't Know About Debt

Inside Higher Ed
May 18, 2012

Students should consider the average debt per student at graduation, the department wrote. But that box on the scorecard contains only a note -- "We don't have this information yet" -- that encourages students to seek it out themselves.

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