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Does Harvard discriminate against Asians? In a case that could upend college admissions, the Ivy League goes on trial
Both Harrison Chen and Thang Diep graduated No. 1 from public high schools. Both excelled in extracurricular activities and scored high on their college admissions tests. And both are Asian American. But the similarities stop there.
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If 'Free College' Sounds Too Good To Be True, That's Because It Often Is
More than a dozen states offer what are known as free college programs. But a new review finds states vary wildly in how they define both "free" and "college."
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A University Is Putting 2,300 Echo Dots in Student Living Spaces and What Could Go Wrong?
When students of Saint Louis University begin their fall semester this month, they’ll notice a new addition to the campus—hundreds of glowing blue hockey-puck robots. By Jennings Brown.
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5 ways to improve your critical thinking
Critical thinking is essential for us to successfully adapt to both new information and situations so what is it and how can we do it better?
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'Google-it' mentality leaves school leavers unprepared for university, survey finds
A "Google-it" mentality is leaving sixth-formers unprepared for higher education, a survey of university admissions officers has found.
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Belgian boy off to university aged 8
A Belgian boy has graduated secondary school aged eight after completing six years' study in just a year and a half. Laurent Simons, whose father is Belgian and mother Dutch, and has an IQ of 145 according to his parents, collected a diploma with a class of 18-year-olds. Speaking to Belgium's RTBF radio, Laurent said his favourite subject was maths "because it's so vast, there's statistics, geometry, algebra".
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University of Manchester has disabled ratings on their Facebook page after a flood of negative reviews
Campaigners have been banned from commenting on UoM’s posts. The University of Manchester have removed the reviews and ratings system from their Facebook page, following a flood of negative reviews from unsatisfied students. Some students have since been banned from commenting on the university's Facebook posts. Reviews and ratings were disabled on 23rd April, immediately following a string of negative reviews that caused the university's rating to drop from 4.7 to 4.3, leaving UoM with the second lowest rating of any Russell Group university.
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Student with Down syndrome first to graduate college in four years in Oregon
A student just made history after becoming the first student with Down syndrome to complete four years of college in Oregon. KATU got the chance to meet Cody Sullivan this week, fresh off his graduation ceremony. Sullivan graduated from Concordia University.
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#Metoo in China: fledgling movement in universities fights censorship
Peking University, China’s top academic institution, admitted this month that 20 years ago a professor had been involved in “inappropriate student-teacher relations” with a female student. Former classmates of that student, Gao Yan, a star pupil studying Chinese literature, say she was raped and that the assault pushed her to commit suicide less than a year later.
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The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat
A first-of-its-kind survey finds one-third of college students regularly skip meals and lack stable housing.
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He applied to 20 of the best colleges and got a full ride to all of them
Micheal Brown stared at the acceptance letter in front of him: It said yes. So did the next one. And the one after that. The 17-year-old from Houston applied to 20 of the best universities in the US. He was admitted to every single one with a full ride and $260,000 in additional scholarship offers. "It's something I'm proud of because I see my hard work paying off, determination paying off, sacrifices paying off," the student told CNN.
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Why Men Are the New Minority on College Campuses
Jessica Smith raised an arm and pointed across the lobby of the university student center like an ornithologist who had just spied a rare breed in the underbrush. “There’s one,” she said. It was, in fact, an unusual bird that Smith had spotted, especially on this campus: masculum collegium discipulus. A male college student.
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The business school where students graduate with a ready-made network
Networking and business go hand-in-hand, but how do you go about building a network to begin with?
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Millennials are lost and unhappy. Schools like Yale think they can help
It takes a lot of hard work to get into places like Yale and Stanford. But once students make it to the Ivy League, many find that while they’re ready to tackle Shakespeare and comparative political systems, they’re lost when it comes to building emotionally rich, and balanced lives. To that end, a growing number of top universities are offering courses that aim to put students on the happiness track.
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Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about scholarships
Stanford Business School officials are admitting that for years they have given steep price breaks to preferred applicants while claiming the scholarships were only for needy students - and say they will close a glitch that allowed public access to thousands of confidential student financial aid records.
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Grambling State University freshman arrested for murder of 2 shot dead on campus
Freshman Jaylin Wayne, of St. Louis, was arrested for first-degree murder.
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Cambridge University vice-chancellor earning £365,000 stands AGAINST requested pay cuts
Professor Stephen Toope has shot down calls from the Office for Students (OfS) that proposed the move in an effort to restore public confidence. Mr Toope said: “People don’t understand how a vice-chancellor’s job has evolved. “I am essentially responsible for £1billion a year turnover, 11,000 employees, 19,000 students, and am in the lead to complete a £2billion fundraising campaign.
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Ultra-Light Aluminum: USU Chemist Reports Material Design Breakthrough
If you drop an aluminum spoon in a sink full of water, the spoon will sink to the bottom. That’s because aluminum, in its conventional form, is denser than water says Utah State University chemist Alexander Boldyrev. But if you restructure the common household metal at the molecular level, as Boldyrev and colleagues did using computational modeling, you could produce an ultra-light crystalline form of aluminum that’s lighter than water.
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Florida university chancellor forced out for pretending to be on campus during Hurricane Irma evacuation
While students at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg awaited a lashing from Hurricane Irma, the school's leader fled the state for Atlanta and insinuated in an email to her boss that she remained on campus — going so far as to say things were quiet and that she heard birds chirping. After the storm, USF officials moved to fire USFSP regional chancellor Sophia Wisniewska for incompetence and "lack of leadership," criticizing her departure and alleging that she had hesitated to evacuate students as Irma grew more dangerous.
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