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<title>Remove middle man from college loans - Editorial (Miami Herald)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[President Obama wants to do away with the middle man -- banks and lenders like Sallie Mae -- and have universities and colleges deal directly with students and the federal government.  This is how Pell Grants are awarded.  Not so for loans, which banks and Sallie Mae now profit from in most cases.   Of course, this makes so much sense that it&#39;s now imperiled in the U.S. Senate.  The banking lobby and Sallie Mae are crying, Job losses!  Government takeover!  And senators are buying this red herring']]></description>
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<title>Dartmouth Drops No Loans (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dartmouth College announced Monday that it is restoring loans to the aid packages of students from families whose incomes exceed $75,000 -- ending a no-loans policy announced with much fanfare two years ago.  Dartmouth will continue to exclude loans from the aid packages of those with smaller family incomes and will continue to be &quot;need blind&quot; in admissions.  The announcement comes a week after Williams College moved away from its no-loans policy, although Williams will also continue to offer its lowest-income students packages that do not include loans.]]></description>
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<title>Ivy League counts the cost as global markets deliver harsh lesson in investing (London Times, U.K.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[They are the elite in more ways than one. Ivy League universities, f&ecirc;ted and idolised across the United States, have also been seen as being among the world&#39;s most successful investors, reaping rich rewards for their acumen.  But not even the Ivy League has been immune from the global financial meltdown. Average annual returns of 15 per cent to 16 per cent on their investments in the two decades to 2008 were brought to an abrupt halt when the downturn wiped up to 30 per cent off their value.]]></description>
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<title>A just victory for law school - Column (Boston Globe)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For Robert V. Ward Jr., the dean of the Southern New England School of Law, the vindication that came last week was sweet.  Southern New England School of Law - soon to be renamed - just won final approval to join the University of Massachusetts system. The merger of the law school and the UMass system will be completed this year.  The battle to make the small South Dartmouth school part of the state&#39;s public college system had become the signature issue of Ward&#39;s tenure.]]></description>
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<title>Want a degree? Get it in three (News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mount Olive College is the first in North Carolina to latch onto a burgeoning national trend toward the three-year bachelor&#39;s degree.  It is an idea spurred by necessity: with more college students and their families struggling to pay tuition bills, universities have looked for ways to deliver their product more quickly and affordably.  But the three-year plan is not for everyone. At Mount Olive, President Philip Kerstetter thinks the new program would appeal to maybe 5 percent of his student body.]]></description>
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<title>Focus on graduation could be rough for small private colleges (Contra Costa Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Graduation rates are likely to move to the forefront of national higher-education discussions this year, putting particular pressure on schools such as Holy Names University, where just 17 percent of the students who arrive as freshmen put on a cap and gown within six years.  With President Barack Obama calling on colleges to dramatically increase the number of graduates over the next decade, Holy Names and other small private schools are entering an era of self-examination. For many, it is a matter of figuring out how to improve their dismal numbers without turning away the students who tend to contribute to those low rates.]]></description>
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<title>New Officers, Members Named to NAICU Board (NAICU News Release)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The members of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities have selected 15 new board directors and four new board officers for 2010-11.  Named board chair for the coming year is John E. Bassett, currently president of Clark University, who will become president of Heritage University, in Washington state, effective next July.]]></description>
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<title>Va. Baptist college president suddenly steps down, cuts staff (Associated Baptist Press)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael J. Puglisi unexpectedly resigned as president of Virginia Intermont College Jan. 25, apparently at the request of trustees of the Baptist-affiliated school.  And in what college administrators and trustees said was a move unrelated to the president&#39;s resignation, the school announced it will reduce its staff by about 40 persons.  Puglisi had served as president of the college for five years and had shepherded the institution through severe economic challenges that threatened to close it three years ago.]]></description>
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<title>Hartford to retire as Meredith College president (Triangle Business Journal, Raleigh, N.C.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Meredith College President Maureen Hartford will retire in 2011, the college announced Monday.  Hartford has run the Southeast&#39;s largest women&#39;s college since 1999.  Meredith will begin its search this fall.  Hartford&#39;s retirement announcement comes months after Peace College President Laura Bingham said she would step down as leader of the Triangle&#39;s other women&#39;s college, also located in Raleigh. Bingham announced in September that she would retire this summer after leading Peace for 12 years.]]></description>
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<title>Dartmouth Will Cut 76 Jobs to Close $100 Million Gap (Bloomberg News)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thirty-eight of Dartmouth&#39;s 3,400 non-faculty workers will lose their jobs starting tomorrow, with &quot;a comparable number&quot; expected in April, Dartmouth said today in an e-mailed statement. An additional 33 staff members will have their hours cut, according to the e-mail.  Dartmouth&#39;s endowment fell 23 percent to $2.82 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30.  U.S. colleges and universities had an average investment loss of 19 percent, according to a survey by the National Association of College &amp; University Business Officers and the Commonfund.]]></description>
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<title>Yale to Cut Capital Spending by 60% After Endowment Losses (Bloomberg News)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The second-richest institution of higher learning in the U.S. will cut its capital program by 60 percent to $250 million next year after endowment losses, according to bond offering documents.  &quot;Until greater funding becomes available, capital expenditures will continue although at a slower pace,&quot; the university in New Haven, Connecticut, said in documents released ahead of the sale of $540 million of tax-exempt securities this week through the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority.]]></description>
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<title>For Students at Risk, Early College Proves a Draw (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At North Carolina&#39;s early-college schools, the goal is to keep at-risk students in school by eliminating the divide between high school and college.  &quot;We don&#39;t want the kids who will do well if you drop them in Timbuktu,&quot; said Lakisha Rice, the principal. &quot;We want the ones who need our kind of small setting.&quot;  Results have been impressive. Not all students at North Carolina&#39;s early-college high schools earn two full years of college credit before they graduate - but few drop out.]]></description>
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<title>Making us sick - Editorial (Borwn University Daily Herald)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Senate&#39;s stalling on an important student loan reform bill already passed by the House of Representatives alone would be enough to make us doubt that the Senate cares genuinely about the interests of America&#39;s students.  But to our great dismay, the Senate seems to be making a habit out of unfriendliness to higher education.  Indeed, a little-known technicality in the Senate&#39;s health care reform bill threatens the ability of colleges and universities to provide low-cost health insurance plans to students.]]></description>
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<title>Lobbyists and Students - Editorial (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The private lending companies that earn billions of dollars in undeserved profits from the federal student loan program are working overtime to kill a bill that would stop their gravy train once and for all - and should have been enacted long ago.  Outmaneuvered on the merits, the lending industry has resorted to scare tactics and distortions.]]></description>
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<title>Tufts U.&amp;#8217;s President Will Step Down to Return to Teaching (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The university plans to make a public announcement on Monday morning. Mr. Bacow, who has been president since 2001, told The Chronicle in an interview that he hoped &quot;to return to the classroom in some capacity, perhaps at MIT or Harvard, if they&#39;ll have me.&quot; He was not seeking a position at Tufts, he said, because he wanted to stay out of the way of his successor. Before coming to Tufts, he was chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a professor of environmental studies.]]></description>
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<title>For-Profit Colleges Change Higher Education&amp;#8217;s Landscape (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Enrollment in the country&#39;s nearly 3,000 career colleges has grown far faster than in the rest of higher education-by an average of 9 percent per year over the past 30 years, compared with only 1.5 percent per year for all institutions, according to an industry analyst. For-profit universities now educate about 7 percent of the nation&#39;s roughly 19 million students who enroll at degree-granting institutions each fall.  (Part of a special report on for-profit colleges.)]]></description>
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<title>Finances First (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Last fall, word leaked out among alumnae and staff members at the College of New Rochelle that the institution&#39;s Board of Trustees was on the verge of hiring a new president.  This news took them by surprise.  New Rochelle&#39;s board leaders say they were unaware that it is standard operating procedure for colleges to involve faculty and staff members and other campus constituents in searches for new presidents, and have vowed to reconsider the approach in the future.]]></description>
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<title>The New Math on Campus (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000.  Researchers cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment skews higher among older, low-income, and black and Hispanic students.  In terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women - and certainly, women are primarily in college not because they are looking for men, but because they want to earn a degree.  But surrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night.]]></description>
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<title>Ranking universities by web popularity (University World News, U.K.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A company that produces an online ranking of the world&#39;s universities based on the popularity of their websites has just released its world top 200 institutions for 2010.  Among the top 20, the US has nine universities, with MIT in first place, followed by Stanford and Harvard, while Britain has two - Cambridge and Oxford - China five and Japan, Mexico, Singapore and Switzerland one each.  (Full rankings list)]]></description>
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<title>US colleges court Hispanic families using espanol (Associated Press)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some venerable East Coast universities are trying to tap the booming pool of Hispanic students by offering Spanish translations of their admissions and financial aid material.  Nationwide, only 25 percent of Hispanics ages 18 to 24 were in college in 2006.  That compares with 32 percent of blacks, 44 percent of whites and 61 percent of Asian-Americans, according to a report by the American Council on Education.  But the same report found that Hispanic college enrollment increased 66 percent between 1995 and 2005.]]></description>
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