Leaders, One and All Inside Higher Ed Leaders, One and All Rice University will use a $50 million gift -- the largest in its history -- to create a new institute aimed at developing the leadership skills of every student at the university. On Wednesday, David Leebron, Rice’s president, described the institute as “a reconceptualization” of what an undergraduate education is meant to provide.
How 7 People Would Spend 24 Hours in Philly Huffington Post How 7 People Would Spend 24 Hours in Philly Chas Dorman of Athletics shares how he would spend a day in Philadelphia.
A Historically Black University Embraces an International Future Chronicle of Higher Education A Historically Black University Embraces an International Future Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on historically black colleges and universities becoming more diverse.
U.S. College Enrollment Has Dropped Nearly 2% Over Past Year The Wall Street Journal U.S. College Enrollment Has Dropped Nearly 2% Over Past Year The number of students at U.S. colleges and universities fell nearly 2% between May 2014 and this month, continuing a four-year slide, according to a report to be released Thursday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. As of this month, 18.6 million students were enrolled, down about 1 million students from the peak in 2011. Enrollment spiked during the recession when more adults went back to school to retrain.
Lessons, Reflections and Realizations After My Freshman Year at the University of Pennsylvania Huffington Post Lessons, Reflections and Realizations After My Freshman Year at the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate student David Ongchoco of the School of Arts & Sciences blogs about his first year of college.
UC System, K-12 Among Biggest Winners in Brown’s New Budget Proposal Los Angeles Times UC System, K-12 Among Biggest Winners in Brown’s New Budget Proposal The big winners in Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to sharply increase education funding are California undergraduates at UC, who will have their tuition frozen for two more years, and the millions of elementary, secondary and community college students who are likely to see more teachers and counselors hired on their campuses.
A Wave of Hispanic Students Reshapes a Historically Black College Chronicle of Higher Education A Wave of Hispanic Students Reshapes a Historically Black College Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education says, “Administrators realize there’s no way HBCUs are going to continue unless they engage Latino and Asian students in particular.”
Every College Student Should Try This Huffington Post Every College Student Should Try This Undergraduate student Theodore Caputi of the Wharton School reflects on his volunteer experience through the Penn Leadership Training Institute and an Academically Based Community Service Course, “Community-Based Environmental Health.”
Asking for Less Inside Higher Ed Asking for Less Gregory Fenves was quite clear when he was offered seven figures to become the next president of the University of Texas at Austin: “$1 million is too high for a public university.” That’s probably not the message his peers at Texas A&M University and the University of Houston want to hear, but Fenves thought it was one that would resonate with the Legislature and faculty members.
Study Finds Incentives to Quit Smoking Are About the How, Not How Much Philadelphia Inquirer Study Finds Incentives to Quit Smoking Are About the How, Not How Much Scott Halpern of the Perelman School of Medicine says, “Incentives are not a panacea…We have yet to come up with a panacea for smoking cessation. It’s a very difficult nut to crack.”