Many D.C. high school students smiled last Thursday with the announcement of a $122 million grant that will help students from low-income families attend college. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the grant will support the city's effort to double the number of high school and college graduates by 2010.
The U.S. Department of Education convened a March 22 summit on higher education to address the goals of its plan to reform higher education in America. Over 250 business and academic leaders and officials gathered in Washington, D.C., and hammered out a list of 25 "action items" to help the Department achieve some of what it set out to do.
A film on radical Islam recently shown on college campuses across the United States has sparked controversy in its wake, causing some campuses to cancel future showings. Director Wayne Kopping's documentary "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" has aired to crowds at such institutions as New York University and University of California, Los Angeles.
A couple weeks ago, police arrested a woman who had been loitering around the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania dorms. She was charged for prostitution and afterward told the police that she was HIV positive and had had sexual contact with ten male students.
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was convicted last Tuesday of lying to the FBI and a grand jury in the investigation of the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity to reporters. Libby was found guilty on four of the five charges of perjury and obstruction of justice brought against him.
The campaign for the 2008 presidential election is underway earlier than ever. With nine months until the first primaries and caucuses, candidates from both parties are emerging, and each has made education issues part of their platform. Looking at Democrats first, "improving our schools" is one of the main issues of Illinois Sen.
If you think your state, county or city doesn't care about your higher education, think again. According to a study released by the State Higher Education Executive Officers March 8, state and local support "per full-time equivalent student in public institutions" increased to $6,325 in fiscal 2006-a 5.
The United States' performance in college education is lagging on the world stage, and the situation will only get worse unless radical changes are made, according to a new report. "Hitting Home: Quality, Cost and Access Challenges Confronting Higher Education," says that the United States' higher education system will be unable, at its current rate, to produce enough degrees to meet the demand of its own workforce.
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