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Unemployment soars among college majors like architecture By Annalyn Censky CNNMoney January 4, 2012 NEW YORK — If you want the best odds of getting a job after graduation, don’t major in architecture. Among recent college grads, architecture majors by far have the highest unemployment rate at 13.9%. That’s according to a new report from […]

George Lucas’ ‘Red Tails’ salutes Tuskegee Airmen By Marco R. della Cava USA TODAY NICASIO, Calif. – George Lucas is many imposing things. Billionaire lord of a sci-fi empire. Passionate early-education philanthropist. Northern California land baron. But drill down to his core and Lucas is still the same fiercely independent kid from rural Modesto who […]

Judge Hears Case Over Maryland Funding Of Historical Black Colleges and Universities   Associated Press   BALTIMORE — Attorneys arguing that Maryland’s history of racially-segregated higher education is ongoing used decades-old state reports to try to make their point as a federal trial began.   The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education […]

U.S. research universities can cope with federal funding cuts   Moody’s   NEW YORK– U.S. research universities have sufficient credit strength to maintain high ratings despite a weaker funding outlook, including looming cuts in federal government funding, says Moody’s Investors Service in a new report. “Except for the temporary boost provided by the 2009 stimulus, […]

  JBHE Annual Survey: Black First-Year Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities   The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education   Once more, this year The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has completed its survey of admissions offices at the nation’s highest-ranked research universities. For the 19th consecutive year, we have calculated and […]

Countries With the Most Students Studying in the United States   Source: Institute of International Education:   The number of international students at colleges and universities in the United States increased by five percent to 723,277 during the 2010/11 academic year, according to the Open Doors report, which is published annually by the Institute of […]

Penn State Said to Be Planning Paterno’s Exit Amid Scandal By MARK VIERA and PETE THAMEL The New York Times STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse scandal that has implicated university […]

October 3, 2011 M.B.A. Students Who Don’t Share Grades With Employers Tend to Study Less By Dan Berrett A policy intended to encourage more intellectual risk-taking among M.B.A. students has been widely adopted at the nation’s top-ranked business schools, but it has also led to a decline in study habits, according to a new working […]