Increasingly, it takes more than a college degree to get the best jobs. New research by a Swarthmore College economist and a University of Wisconsin colleague shows that "functional literacy" separates the most successful college-educated workers from fellow graduates who take jobs for which a high school diploma used to be sufficient.
With public concern mounting over the cost, length and quality of college education, Western Illinois University has taken the unprecedented step of guaranteeing major components of its education.
The launch of the euro by European Union will ultimately generate ramifications in the political arena that will eclipse the economic impact and foreverchange the international landscape says former U.S. Minister Counselor to the European Union Jonathan Greenwald.
Children in crowded homes do worse in school and fight more with their parents than kids in uncrowded homes, according to a Cornell University stuby by an environmental stress expert to be published in the December 1998 issue of Child Development.
A University of Vermont College of Medicine researcher has been selected to head a White House-appointed panel of experts to develop the largest-ever national youth anti-drug media campaign.
Smoking rates among secondary school students have started to turn downward.
While it's rare to include "legal issues" in the same sentence with Gilligan's Island, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University documents the extent to which the show dealt with legal issues in recent law review article, "Legal Tales From Gilligan's Island."
University of Michigan scientists conclude in their 1998 national survey that illicit drug use by this population is finally heading down after six years of steady increases.
Inner city children at the Nativity School in Los Angeles will return from the holiday break to find their depleted library has received 2,250 books. The books were collected and sent to the children by Fairfield University students in Connecticut.
While members of the U.S. Senate struggle with what to do with the impeachment papers Congress passed on, one politics professor says the Clinton affair is small stuff compared to Watergate and Iran-Contra.
A large number of reports have already discussed the academic and social skills of home-schooled children, but the state of their physical education is not being addressed, according to the co-author of a book and video package for parents who wish to teach their children physical education.
Two thirds of Lutheran social ministry agencies nationwide report increased requests for services in the wake of government welfare reform. Those are among the conclusions of a report, "The Impact of Welfare Reform on Lutheran Social Ministry Organization."
When the holiday season is over, the Christmas trees don't have to end up in the trash, according to an Ohio State expert. Old trees can be ground into mulch or used as fish shelters in ponds.
Home schooling spells success for UMBC valedictorian. Straight-A student journalist will speak at commencement
The Streetwise Guide makes calculus palatable by smothering it with outrageous humor. Ranked one, two, or three on the Amazon.com list of calculus bestsellers, the conversational book was authored by matheticians from Williams College and the University of California at Davis.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has announced the awarding of a three-year grant of $475,000 to the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education to investigate the economic implications of "peer effects," or the notion that the quality of a student's education depends on the quality of fellow students.
Students in Johns Hopkins' Police Executive Leadership Program survey the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg for lessons on modern police leadership.
Johns Hopkins political scientist and constitutional law scholar Joel Grossman is available to comment on impeachment proceedings.
Johns Hopkins graduate students completing a 13-week study recommend urban revitalization strategies and better data collection to Baltimore officials.
A four-year, $19 million project will study the impact of welfare reform on children and their families.
New Web site from NCI and CDC helps you meet New Year's resolutions.
Increased punishment of juveniles reduces the amount of crime they commit in a way similiar to the impact punishment has for adults, according to a new paper by a University of Chicago economist.
A University at Buffalo study, the first to use Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to compare the cognitive functions of men and women has found definitive evidence that although in many respects male and female brains operate in much the same way, they function differently when performing complex linguistic tasks.
While an occasional bout of anxiety is normal, people who are particularly sensitive to anxiety symptoms run a greater risk of developing psychological problems or even physical illness, new research at Ohio State suggests.
Contrary to common belief, most youths who refuse offers to join a gang do so without suffering serious physical harm, according to a new Ohio State study of gangs in four cities (Denver and Aurora, Colo., Broward Co., Fla. and Cleveland, Ohio.)
America's favorite nut can settle into our tummies in many different forms thanks to University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers who have translated The Walnut Cookbook, a collection of recipes by Jean-Luc Toussaint, their summer neighbor in Perigord, a town in southern France.
Students who ask the right question at the University of Richmond can receive one year of free tuition and room and board. That's worth $23,000.
Around this time of year, astronomers are often asked "What was the Star of Bethlehem?" According to an astronomer at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, the short answer is "we aren't sure."
In a relationship rare between higher education and the arts, Vanderbilt University has set aside several areas of its campus to be the home to one-of-a-kind sculptures by student-artists. The first of the artworks, four bronze sculptures, were dedicated Dec. 1.
Adolescent reproductive behavior cannot be understood and modified without an understanding of the social pressures that shape it--the societal and familial forces that pressure girls into involuntary and unprotected sexual relations and early childbearing. "The Uncharted Passage: Girls' Adolescence in the Developing World" explores these gender issues.
1. Buying books for kids. 2. Tiny Tim's ailment. 3. Unusual Christmas gift.
A professor of decorative arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison says our holiday rituals underscore the importance of material objects to the way we present ourselves and how we envision our culture.
So the kids are getting out of school for the holidays, and you don't know how to keep them busy while you finish your own preparations? Education students at Millsaps College have come up with some fun activities to entertain children and to help everyone get into the holiday spirit!
Staring and squirming by infants might not be as random or meaningless as they seem, says a Cornell University developmental psychologist. Rather, the link between the two could prevent infants from getting visually stuck, and allow them to "visually forage" the environment.
University academic programs typically build slowly, one steady step at a time. The Jewish studies program at the University of Illinois started typically enough nearly 20 years ago, but in the last year it has made a "great leap forward."
A major collection of manuscripts by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Larry McMurtry, including novels and videos of daily filming for "Streets of Laredo"--complete with scribbled notes complaining because the TV towns needed more dust--arrived at Rice this week.
Women may have been saying it for years but two male clinical psychologists have written the book that also says it loud and clear: Let's Face It, Men Are @$$#%¢$.
A Purdue University effort is helping young men who father babies also become good dads. "It's My Child, Too," is a parenting curriculum aimed at young, unwed fathers. The goal of the program is for fathers to recognize the important role they play in the lives of their children.
On Jan. 1, 1999, thousands of welfare recipients are scheduled to be taken off the rolls as the impacts of welfare reform begin to be felt nationwide. This is a list of Johns Hopkins University experts on various aspects of the welfare reform story.
As new governors and elected officials prepare to take office at the beginning of the year, people may notice that many have new outlooks on politics that vary from the conventional attitudes politicians have had in the past. They are part of a new political culture, detailed in a new book, The New Political Culture, by Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
The spirit of William Stafford (1914-1993) is alive and well and living at Lewis & Clark College. The president of Lewis & Clark College honored the legacy of this poet, dedicating the William Stafford Room in the college's library and announcing the acquisition of a major collection of Stafford's work.
Ever found yourself buying more in the store than you intended to? You can blame the music. Did you know that a Christmas card might say more about you than you intend? Here are some story ideas for the Holiday season from the University of Kansas.
An Iowa State University political science professor has launched a web page design contest to promote knowledge of American government. The contest is offering more than $40,000 in full tuition scholarships to high school and community college students.
The holiday season may be the first opportunity that some parents get to see first-year students who have left for college. While sharing presents and catching up on family news, parents may want to look for signs of health problems their students may have, say campus health officials at Southern Methodist University.
The market for new college graduates this year is holding at a very robust hiring rate, according to the 28th annual Recruiting Trends survey conducted by Career Services and Placement at Michigan State University.
Why is Calista Flockhart, star of the television show Ally McBeal so thin? While only she knows for sure, part of the reason her waif-like thinness is "in" can be traced to a strong American hostility toward fat, says a social historian at Carnegie Mellon University who is the author of "Fat History."
The increasing complexity of the American workplace and culture has convinced officials at Prince George's Community College in Maryland that traditional approaches to science and mathematics teaching are no longer adequate to meet the needs of its students. And not just science, math or technology majors.
After a four-year period of flat growth, the total number of foreign students attending U.S. colleges and universities increased 5.1% this year to a total of 481,280 according to the Institute of International Education's Open Doors 1997-98. Numbers of U.S. students studying abroad climbed 11.4%.
Media advisory: A list of the top fifty colleges for African Americans as determined by a survey of 1,077 African American higher education professionals, will be released at a news conference on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
The vast majority of working people are not satisfied with the amount of money they expect to have for retirement, according to research by a Purdue University expert.
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