For Some Colleges, Equal but Separate
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The NCAA tournament's play-in game is drawing the ire of the historically black colleges and universities as their schools have earned the dubious distinction of being picked most often for the event.
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Perhaps, this time, Boston College will have a little mojo on its side.
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Free Wi-Fi, subsidized music-download services, even free iPods at Duke University. There&#39;s no question that high-tech perks are a fixture of today&#39;s college experience.
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Providing one-stop shops for students looking at colleges, 35 states ease the labyrinth of class planning, financial aid, transcripts and online applications. Some private-sector sites offer unbiased student rankings.
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Media & professional: University applicants will be judged on their schools as well as grades.
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SOME COLLEGE students know how to run for their lives. Take cross-country athletes. They do not get the ink. They do not get the television time. They do not have governors, alumni, and 70,000 fans fawning all over them, telling them how critical they are to the mental health of an entire state.
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Universities were encouraged yesterday to give preference to students from minority backgrounds in a scheme that could see working-class and ethnic minority applicants
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Flood of applications, financial aid changes have roiled admissions process for students and colleges.
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Separation Saturday seemed to have precisely that effect for Boston College's football team, which gained some distance between itself and several of its Atlantic Division opponents in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Bridgewater and Raynham share a regional school system, but they do not always share an education vision. And once again, their uneasy partnership is being put to a test.
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The school attended by university applicants remains key to deciding whether they get a place, a study finds.
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Sometimes, it's the donor who lets the school down rather than the other way around. Schools have chipped donors' names off buildings after a conviction or a scandal. This summer, Roger Williams University in Rhode Island renamed its law school, dropping a donor's name after he made a racist comm...
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Endowments might be surging, but don't rely on colleges to give your kid a free ride.
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Â· Few institutions pass admission benchmarks Â· Russell Group blames low achievement at school
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It is not as though they need any more reminders. It is not as though they are not aware of the consequences. Boston College has Rutgers and Mississippi State and, to an extent, Pittsburgh as prime examples of what can happen to a Division 1-A team on any given day against a Division 1-AA opponent.
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Decisions by Harvard, Yale and other elite schools to make college more affordable to a larger pool of applicants might have the unintended consequence of harming less wealthy institutions and the students who attend them, some educators and financial aid experts say.
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The country's students are up in arms about a new government educational quota policy. But is merit all that counts in such a rigidly divided country?