Dropout Gives University $100 Million
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A man who dropped out of Brown  University decades ago because he couldn't pay the tuition has  given the Ivy League college $100 million, its biggest gift  ever, which he made by selling liquor.
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A university offers discounts to students who pay the full Â£9,000 for their degree course in advance.
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Mary Masterman, a senior at Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City, won the top prize of a $100,000 scholarship in the Intel Science Talent Search by building a spectrograph for $300.
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Two decades ago, a young accountant pioneered the now-$17 billion-a-year private student loan industry through a tiny nonprofit company with a noble goal: helping students pay for college.
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EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his family are likely to receive a windfall of about Â£100m from the sale of a New York-quoted shipping business which he established 12 years ago.
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About 80,000 to 90,000 low-income students will not be qualified to receive Pell Grant scholarships under new calculation formula.
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The U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday that it has awarded Virginia Tech a $960,685 grant to help the university improve its efforts to identify and help troubled students and staff.
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Classmates Online, the Renton company that built a business around uniting high-school alumni, is being acquired by Internet service provider United Online for $100 million in cash.
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By JUSTIN POPE The Associated Press Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fundraising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in an all-time high of $28 billion -- a 9.4 percent jump from the year before.
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A 17-year-old girl won a scholarship worth $100,000 for building an inexpensive yet accurate spectrograph that identifies the "fingerprints" of different molecules.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - Brown University offers a fine education for big money -- almost $49,000 a year -- but this exclusive school is below average in one way.
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Events originating in Warren E. Buffettâs rejection from Harvard Business School have led to a gift to a Quaker private school that dwarfs some college endowments.
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By Larry Rulison, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 10--TROY -- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute made a risky bet on an Internet startup, and it paid off to the tune of $3.3 million.
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Brown University has received a &#36;100 million gift for its financial aid program, prompting a restructuring of how the university awards aid to its students.
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Fermanagh College in Enniskillen is told to repay Â£1m funding following management failures.
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Two students at the Durham, NC, School of Science and Mathematics will split US$100,000 in scholarship money for their cancer research.