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Where the College Scorecard Has Gained Traction So Far – and Where It Hasn’t
The Department of Education’s College Scorecard is, at its core, a simple college-search tool that highlights key data points with a few clicks. The most-talked-about piece: the average salary of students who attended a college, 10 years after they first enrolled. Each college’s profile also features its average annual cost, academic offerings, and graduation and retention rates, among other things. (Only students who receive federal financial aid are included in the data.)
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Penn Vet School Ready for Its Closeup in Animal Planet’s ‘Life at Vet U’
Students of the School of Veterinary Medicine and their animal patients are featured as the stars of the Animal Planet docu-series Life at Vet U.
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Princeton Professor Documents the Movement That Ended Single-sex Education at Elite Schools
Men and women together in class is as much a part of college life today as final exams and grade-point averages. Half a century ago, that wasn't the case at many elite colleges. Nancy Weiss Malkiel, professor emerita of history at Princeton University, documents the movement that ended single-sex education and the social changes it brought about in Keep the Damned Women Out: The Struggle for Coeducation (Princeton University Press; $35).
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Why More Black Students Are Enrolling in Historically Black Colleges
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the increase in black students’ in historically black colleges and universities.
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A 29 Percent Tuition Cut Caps Renaissance at La Salle
Colleen M. Hanycz is moving with urgency and substance to reposition La Salle University in a competitive higher-education market, after a year of layoffs and a deficit. Since she arrived as president 15 months ago, La Salle has announced plans to build a new dormitory, remake the center of campus, overhaul the library, and cut 19 academic programs that attract few students. She has appointed almost an entirely new cabinet and launched a marketing campaign heralding La Salle as the place where "explorers are never lost."
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Whether Crime Is Up or Down Depends on Data Being Used
Richard Berk of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the decline in homicides.
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Did Presidential Debate Illustrate Schoolyard Bullying?
Linda Lucker Leibowitz of the Graduate School of Education is quoted about bullying rhetoric displayed in the recent presidential debate.
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Presidential Vetoes and Tenure
Faculty advocates argue that tenure decisions are the primary domain of professors, and yet most institutions still involve presidents in the process. So what is the appropriate role of a college or university president in tenure cases? That’s what faculty members and administrators at Lafayette College are trying to figure out in light of a recent presidential tenure veto that roiled the campus.
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Clinton Excels in Debate by Laying Traps on Trump’s Temperament
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center shares her thoughts on the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.