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After Wildcats’ Success, Villanova Full But Not Flooded With Students For the Fall
With the Wildcats' stellar season and buzzer-beating final shot for the national championship, Villanova University officials weren't sure whether they would see a flood of admitted students enroll by the May 1 deadline. In fact, with the team ranked No. 1 nationally for several weeks before admission decisions were to go out, the university decided to make a few hundred fewer offers this year than last year, just to be on the safe side.
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Asian-American Groups Accuse Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale of Bias in Admissions
A long list of Asian-American groups plans on Monday to call for federal investigations of Brown University, Dartmouth College, and Yale University for alleged discrimination in admissions. The Asian American Coalition for Education, consisting of more than 100 local, state, and national Asian-American organizations, intends to ask the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights and the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the three institutions.
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Saving the Liberal Arts
It's a familiar question: Do the liberal arts need saving? The answer here Thursday at a conference on the topic — yes — was familiar, too. But keynote speakers at the opening of the conference at the University of Chicago focused less on the question itself than on from what and whom a broad education needs rescuing.
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Looking To Change Schools? These Top Universities Take the Most Transfer Students
Nowhere in the country is it easier to move up the ladder of higher education than in California. The Golden State is home to several prominent universities that accept thousands of transfer students a year, with UCLA the national leader among top-tier schools. UCLA enrolled 3,167 new transfer students in fall 2014, more than any other school in the top 75 on the U.S. News and World Report list of national universities. The University of California at Davis ranked second, with 3,138, according to a Washington Post analysis of university data.
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Opioid Prescriptions Drop for First Time in Two Decades
Jeanmarie Perrone of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about how the next generation of physicians will handle opioid prescribing.
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What Obama’s Overtime Rule Could Mean for Colleges
This week the Obama administration released a final rule that will extend overtime pay to millions more American workers, including hundreds of thousands of lower-level salaried employees on college campuses. Much of the attention has focused on the impact on postdoctoral fellows, the overworked, underpaid backbone of the academic research enterprise. But it’s not just postdocs who will benefit from the rule, which will double the annual salary cutoff below which workers are generally eligible for overtime pay, raising it to $47,476.
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Building a Better ‘Bridge’ to the Ph.D.
As an undergraduate, Rose S. Perea never doubted her ability in physics. That changed in her master’s program. "The math just got super hard," she says. "I started questioning my performance compared to the other students and wondered whether I belonged in graduate school." Ms. Perea, who is Hispanic, had set her sights on a doctorate. She knew she had hurdles, like low GRE scores, and at New Mexico State University, she failed to pass a qualifying examination.
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Why ‘Three-parent Embryo’ Procedure Could Fail
Douglas Wallace of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about a mitochondrial replacement technique.
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Yes, Blame Mom and Dad
While doing fieldwork in 2004, Laura Hamilton, now an associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Merced, observed how parents interacted with their college-age daughters during and after move-in day. Some parents -- those fussing over the arrangements of their daughter’s bedroom or making phone calls to the university to figure out when, exactly, their child should expect the campus shuttle to arrive each morning -- became a regular presence on the residence hall floor throughout the year.
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Snapshots of Life: Portrait of Zika Virus
A survey conducted by the Annenberg Public Policy Center on what Philadelphians think about a Zika vaccine is cited.