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| Slowly, as Student Debt Rises, Colleges Confront Costs | In a wood-paneled office lined with books, sports memorabilia and framed posters (including John Belushi in 鈥淎nimal House鈥), E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, keeps a framed quotation that reads, 鈥淚f you don鈥檛 like change, you鈥檙e going to like irrelevance even less.鈥 |
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| Benchmarks indicate state doing OK, but not all that great | Benchmarks can be useful tools for measuring how this state matches up with other states on a whole host of indicators, everything from high school graduation rates to the number of families living in poverty. Armed with data that can be quantified, the public can help shape policy鈥 |
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| Brace for online revolution in higher education | Andrew Ng is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and he has a rather charming way of explaining how the new interactive online education company that he cofounded, Coursera, hopes to revolutionize higher education by allowing students from all over the world to not only hear鈥 |
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| More private colleges offering tuition discounts | The cost of a college education continues to increase faster than inflation; a phenomenon that's roiling family budgets and spurring calls for action on Capitol Hill. But with a little digging, parents and students can find cost-cutting deals and programs that make the paper chase a lot鈥 |
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| UC regents weigh tuition hike to close budget gap | Another tuition increase is on the table as University of California officials develop plans to deal with a major budget shortfall. The UC Board of Regents is scheduled to discuss a proposal to raise tuition by 6 percent this fall when it meets Wednesday in Sacramento. The board would not鈥 |
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| Muckleshoot Tribe establishes Higher Education Scholarship program | The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe today announced the establishment of a Higher Education Scholarship program to support Native American students enrolled at one of 12 state universities, community colleges or technical colleges in the 2012 school year. "This new program reflects the鈥 |
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| Universities will train DSHS social workers, foster parents, parents | For as long as the state has had social workers, their training has been handled exclusively by the Department of Social and Health Services. |
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| 258 at Evergreen dodge state pay cuts | Nearly 260 union-represented staffers at The Evergreen State College are avoiding 3 percent pay cuts July 1, reversing an agreement the Washington Federation of State Employees and college had reached previously in a one-year contract. |
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| 2012 college grads enter improving job market | The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs. |
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| Degrees of Debt: A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College | Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signed on the loans, is taking out a life鈥 |