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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

U.S. News & World Report

Posted 15 days ago

Best High Schools Methodology

To produce the 2012 U.S.News & World Report , U.S. News teamed up with the Washington, D.C.-based American Institutes for Research (AIR), one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. AIR implemented U.S. News's co...

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Al Jazeera

Posted 24 days ago

The ripple and residual benefits of affirmative action

Washington, DC - As early as this coming autumn, the United States Supreme Court will revisit the constitutionality of race and gender conscious admissions within the sphere of public higher education in the US. By granting a review of Fisher v The Unive...

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U.S. Department of Agriculture

Posted 1 month ago

USDA and Nebraska Colleges Work to Improve Access to Higher Education and Deliver Jobs

Front row: Mary Honke, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Dr. Greg Smith, President of Central Community College. Back row from left to right are: Dr. Jack Huck, President of Southeast Community College; Ryan Purdy, Interim President of Mid...

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Bloomberg.com

Posted 1 month ago

Fake Degrees Prompt India Led by Infosys to Build an Ivy League

The Infosys Ltd. Mysore Campus is located in Mysore, India. The Infosys Ltd. Mysore Campus is located in Mysore, India. Photographer: Namas Bhojani/Bloomberg Students walk through the Infosys Ltd. Mysore Campus, in Mysore, India. Students walk through th...

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University Business

Posted 1 month ago

University Of Utah Trustees Approve Dental School

University of Utah trustees on Tuesday approved a School of Dentistry, the first new college at the U. in years, along with a related four-year doctoral program, all funded by $37 million in private pledges. The school will enroll its first cohort of 20...

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Freshnews.com

Posted 2 months ago

iFrogz® Flourishes in Campus Bookstores

SALT LAKE CITY -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- ZAGG Inc (NASDAQ: ZAGG), a leading mobile device accessories company, reports success for their iFrogz® (www.iFrogz.com) brand in college bookstores nationwide on the heels of the CAMEX Market Expo this year. Cases fo...

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Tulsa World

Posted 2 months ago

Court upholds California's affirmative action ban

The ruling marked the second time the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned back a challenge to the state's landmark voter initiative, Proposition 209, which was passed in 1996. Affirmative action proponents, who had requested that the court reconside...

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U.S. News & World Report

Posted 2 months ago

Students Divided on Whether Applicants Should Weigh Colleges' Partnerships

As acceptance letters roll in, college applicants may be tempted to focus on the light at the end of the ivory tunnel, but whittling a short list of schools down can be dizzying. Prospective students must consider location, cost, academic reputation, cam...

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Omaha.com

Posted 2 months ago

Omaha Time Capsule: Bank closes its doors

What happened in the Midlands on this day? Here's a sampling from the World-Herald archives. March 28, 1971: While residents of the town of 210 talked about the closing of the Bank of Salem, officials of the Nebraska Department of Banking worked behind l...

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