...al students compared to the previous year. Part of that is a natural push – in February 2011, Grinnell College told the New York Times that almost one in 10 of its applicants that year were Chinese international students. But universities encourage the trend as well, stumping for a more international student body; the international population of the University of Southern California hit 22 percent with the entrance of the class of 2012, and Harva...
...D). Since 1990, university attendance has tripled, and Chilean students often attain higher test scores than their Latin American neighbors. But in reality, education in Chile is flawed and disturbingly unequal. While Chilean universities legally may not be run for profit, private university authorities successfully utilize loopholes to accrue windfall profits. Many private universities take advantage of lax standards monitoring to cut costs and...
...roving the technical experience of science and engineering students by implementing the “Ciência sem Fronteiras” (Science without Borders) fellowship, which covers tuition and living costs for a semester or year abroad at top universities across the world. The program avoids brain drain by guaranteeing that students return to Brazil for the last year of their studies. At the same time, it provides students with the top-notch education and network...
...is the defunding of higher education and the increased student debt that has accompanied it. It is well known that university tuition has climbed much faster than inflation over the past three decades. Even state colleges and universities that were once tuition-free, such as the University of California system, have increased tuition and fees at rates comparable to those of private and for-profit institutions. The result of these tuition hikes in...
...all over the country rose up in support announcing that they were the 132th student. That is why the movement is called #YoSoy132 or I am 132. CPR: When did student groups join for the first time? VH: Students from different universities started announcing their support through social networking sites using the hashtag #YoSoy132, helping the movement gain popularity. Furthermore, the two initial demonstrations outside of Televisa marked the begi...
...to examine cultural phenomena of all types within their sociopolitical and global contexts. Such curricular reforms are not limited to a single department, nor are they a uniquely Columbian phenomenon. Throughout the country, universities are signing on to a more cultural approach to area studies. Moreover, as the revised Hispanic studies program makes clear, this method of study is increasingly infringing upon the territory of the old area studi...
...d nation-wide prominence, the event mixed local and the national perspectives. Shaw and Foner also connected the issues of affirmative action to the current state of higher education and to Columbia. “Institutions, especially universities, are beset by inertia,” said Foner. Foner continued to say that universities remain largely the same without active efforts like the faculty diversity initiative. Shaw later followed up Foner’s statement in say...
...permitted in that dense Wahhabi bureaucracy? It seems that so far, they have succeeded in acquiring the talent and resources needed to launch into the top ranks. Their professors come from all corners of the globe- even from universities here in the United States. It was just announced on Tuesday that the next President of KAUST will be Jean-Lou Chameau, current President of Caltech. Their endowment, only in its 4th year, is 10 billion USD: that...
...high terms of monetary compensation, the best and the brightest are enticed to enter such a lucrative industry. The hiring practices of the top firms in the New York finance scene routinely focus on the top students of elite universities; many young graduates hired are skilled in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and the natural and physical sciences. These workers are drawn to Wall Street by the money and lifestyle cocktail of New Yor...
...ailable.) It would also be a refreshing change of campaign pace to see a resurgence of the Barack Obama that ran in 2008—namely, the candidate who courted youth voters with unprecedented tenacity. Missouri is home to about 70 universities, including the University of Missouri (which has about 64,000 students and is located in the left-leaning Boone County) and Washington University in Saint Louis, a top 15 school with 15,000 students. The tens of...
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