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<title>No Rust in Rochester - Opinion Piece (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[While no one here is glad to see Kodak go bankrupt, it&#39;s hardly the catastrophe many imagine - in part, surprisingly, because of Kodak. The high-skilled workers it let go over the years created a valuable labor pool for start-up companies. It also helps that Rochester has a strong higher-education sector, which has likewise been supported by Kodak. The University of Rochester became a leading research center through gifts from Kodak&#39;s founder, George Eastman, who also gave generously to the Rochester Institute of Technology. These universities have an immense impact on the regional economy.]]></description>
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<title>Whats Most at Risk for Traditional Colleges (JeffSelingo.com)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about the coming disruption of the higher-ed system and asked if traditional institutions were prepared. A few college leaders gave me suggestions on how they&#39;re getting ready, while others trying to disrupt the space told me where they are finding the best opportunities. So what is the low-hanging fruit' Where are colleges most vulnerable' Where are they least at risk' Here are a few clues.]]></description>
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<title>Burlington College launches search for president (Burlington, Vt., Free Press)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Burlington College has begun a national search for a new president, the college has announced. The new president will replace Jane Sanders, who stepped down in the fall after seven years in the position and is now on a one-year paid leave. Three administrators are leading the college on an interim basis. The school offers a variety of majors and a curriculum that features non-graded narrative evaluations and self-designed programs of study.]]></description>
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<title>Ashland University Approves Record Low Tuition Increase (WMFD-TV, Mansfield, Ohio)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Ashland University Board of Trustees recently approved the lowest increase in tuition, and room and board costs on record at A.U. The board approved a 1.1 percent increase for the coming 2012-2013 academic year. It represents a $428 increase in costs and the lowest increase since records were first kept at A.U. A.U. President Dr. Fred Finks says the university&#39;s administration and board of trustees are serious about helping to make a private education more affordable for students and their families.]]></description>
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<title>Some colleges cut tuition, hasten graduation (Reuters)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Even before President Obama announced plans last month to push colleges to improve affordability, a number of schools beat him to the punch by lowering tuition and helping students graduate in fewer semesters. These schools - typically small private colleges that lack the cachet of top-tier colleges and compete with less expensive state schools - are bucking the widespread trend of increasing costs. In the last year, a few have cut tuition by as much as 20 percent. Others promise that students will earn their degree in four years or the college will pick up the cost of additional coursework.]]></description>
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<title>Online Campaign Prompts Sallie Mae to Change Fee Policy for Loan Suspensions (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, three months after Bank of America backed down from imposing a $5 monthly debit card fee in response to an online petition, Sallie Mae changed its fee policy in response to an online petition. For years, Sallie Mae had required unemployed people who could not afford their monthly payments to pay a $50-per-loan fee every three months to suspend their payments temporarily, even as interest charges mounted. Sallie Mae called this forbearance fee a &quot;good faith deposit&quot; - but it was neither credited to the borrower&#39;s account nor refunded.]]></description>
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<title>How Davidson offers high quality education, but not debt - Opinion Piece (Charlotte, N.C., Observer)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Davidson College President Carol Quillen testified Thursday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions as part of a hearing on &quot;Innovations in College Affordability.&quot; Here are excerpts from her remarks.]]></description>
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<title>Senate Republicans Question Obamas Plan to Tie Federal Aid to Tuition (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Senate Republicans pushed back against President Obama&#39;s college-affordability agenda at an education-committee hearing Thursday, expressing doubts about the administration&#39;s plans to reward colleges and states that hold down tuition and maintain their higher-education budgets. &quot;I don&#39;t believe the government&#39;s role is to pick winners and losers,&quot; said Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, explaining that he was uncomfortable &quot;shifting the determination of affordability to Washington.&quot;]]></description>
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<title>Is It Bias? Is It Legal? (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Allegations of anti-Asian bias are likely to get renewed attention with the news that the Education Department&#39;s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint by an Asian-American applicant that illegal bias resulted in his rejection by Harvard University and Princeton University. This investigation joins one that the department has been conducting for several years into Princeton University&#39;s treatment of Asian-American applicants.]]></description>
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<title>Adventures in Wonderland - Opinion Piece (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The notion that certificates or &quot;badges&quot; might displace degrees in any meaningful timeframe is incorrect. Even in developing economies, where there is truly a hunger for knowledge in any form and where the degree may not yet be as central to the evaluation of prospective employees, the wage premium from a bachelor&#39;s degree is even higher: 200 percent in China, compared with a mere 62 percent in the U.S. Degrees are definitely not disappearing; they&#39;re not even in decline.]]></description>
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<title>Standing Their Ground (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At a panel discussion at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities&#39; annual meeting of presidents today, presenters made one thing clear: American culture may have changed, but their institutions&#39; interpretation of the Bible - which views homosexuality as immoral - will not. So the discussion, as described by the panelists and members of the audience, dealt not with whether colleges should change their attitudes toward gay students, but how to deal with the controversy that breaks out when students or alumni pressure a college to change.]]></description>
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<title>Higher educations $64,000 question - Guest Post (Washington Post College Inc. Blog)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Higher education is a diffuse, decentralized profession, with institutional and professional diversity and autonomy being highly prized aspects of our work. However, our cherished autonomy must be coupled with shared professional understandings about how we can best serve our clients, students, and society more generally. The publication of &quot;Committing to Quality&quot; and the endorsement by these organizations move higher education toward speaking with one voice on the central issue of student learning and the role of gathering, reporting, and using evidence in improving it.]]></description>
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<title>An Education System That Is Built to Last (Chronicle of Higher Education - Innovations Blog)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Educational success isn&#39;t a goal like beating the Nazis in World War II - when it&#39;s done we can all go home to our farms and factories. Rather, these goals represent the kickoff to lasting and growing success. But the deadline language by itself may not invite us to &quot;build to last.&quot; Our aim should be an educational system that yields growing success for decades to come. We by no means have a blueprint to offer, but we can identify some key elements of a high functioning system.]]></description>
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<title>This Law Is Saying We Are No Longer Free - Interview (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration has announced that under the health-care law insurance plans at religious organizations, including Roman Catholic colleges, must cover all government-approved contraceptives. The law&#39;s opponents, like Michael Galligan-Stierle, president of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, are mobilizing against what they see as an attack on their institutions. Following is an edited version of his conversation with The Chronicle.]]></description>
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<title>Parents Snared in $100 Billion College Debt Trap Risk Retirement (Bloomberg News)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#39;s not just graduates who are staggering under the weight of educational loans. Parents, too, are borrowing record amounts to put their kids through college, jeopardizing their retirements. With the housing crisis, many families can no longer avail themselves of one popular option for financing university studies: taking out a second mortgage.]]></description>
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<title>US Senate wants insight into Davidson&amp;#8217;s no loan debt program (WSOC-TV, Charlotte, N.C.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[People across the country are trying to learn from Davidson College, where students can attend four years of classes without ever taking out a loan. College President Carol Quillen spent a day in Washington showing lawmakers how Davidson manages the program. The college made news in recent years with its Davidson Trust program. The program does away with student loans and replaces them with more financial aid and grants, which means less debt for needy students.]]></description>
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<title>Obama, Romney divided on for-profit colleges (Washington Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It hasn&#39;t gotten much attention on the campaign trail, but President Obama and Republican front-runner Mitt Romney are sharply divided over one of the most controversial issues in higher education today - the growth of for-profit colleges. While the Obama administration has cracked down on the burgeoning sector, the former Massachusetts governor has held it up as one answer to the wild growth of college tuition.]]></description>
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<title>Lawrence University president Jill Beck to retire (WLUK-TV, Green Bay, Wis.)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lawrence University&#39;s president is retiring. Jill Beck has announced she will step down as head of the Appleton college in June 2013. Beck has been president since July 2004. Lawrence&#39;s board of trustees has begun the search for a new president. Beck is a native of Worcester, Mass. She is the first female president in Lawrence&#39;s history.]]></description>
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<title>Law schools sued by alumni who can&amp;#8217;t find work (Marketplace Radio)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The setup to this next story sounds a bit like a bad joke. What do a bunch of lawyers do when they can&#39;t get jobs' They sue, naturally. Yesterday, a group of recent law graduates sued a dozen law schools. They say the schools misled them about job and salary prospects. It&#39;s not even the first time this week that a school has been accused of false advertising.]]></description>
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<title>Nevada grads worry about their futures (Marketplace Radio)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A strong case could be made that the Silver State suffered the greatest damage from the Great Recession. Nevada is at the top of all the wrong lists - unemployment, foreclosures, state budget shortfalls. Today, we bring you the voices of college seniors in Nevada. They&#39;ve survived university funding cuts and tuition increases and now they&#39;re getting ready to graduate into a job market that is unpromising, to say the least.]]></description>
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