The U.S. Department of Education has rewarded the University at Albany's National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement with an additional $5.3 million to extend its national leadership on student learning and achievement in new school settings.
A Purdue University Krannert Graduate School of Management team walked away with top honors and a $12,000 prize in a case competition at the 30th Annual National Black MBA Association Convention.
The average starting salary for Purdue University's May agricultural graduates is almost $1,800 higher than that received by last year's graduates. The survey results show that 92 percent of the 332 graduates reported they have either found employment or are furthering their education.
Mann at Cornell University has received a National Leadership Grant for Preservation or Digitization for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to preserve and make available worldwide the most important and influential volumes on the history of home economics.
The Cornell University College of Human Ecology celebrates the centennial of home economics with events reflecting the view that home economics was an early model of how American women began to apply basic research in science and medicine to the improvement of human lives.
National Survey Finds that Sixty-Two Percent of Responding Schools Require At Least One Diversity Class or Are In the Process of Developing Diversity Requirements.
Demonstrating a strong commitment to innovative approaches for bringing women into engineering, Ford Motor Company has pledged $2.5 million in support of the nation's first engineering program at a women's college.
Lewis University's radio station WLRA-FM became the first college station to go entirely digital from studio to transmitter this week, setting the standard for college radio across the country.
Librarians at Purdue University are helping students and faculty cope with 'techno-stress,' or being bombarded with too much information that is not obviously relevant.
Purdue University has joined a new national network of academic institutions and human rights organizations committed to protecting scholars and scholarship around the world.
Two new Centers for Learning and Teaching will start up this month in Maryland and Texas, supported by awards of $9M to $10M each by the National Science Foundation.
The National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have announced the second round of awards under the Interagency Education Research Initiative, supporting research aimed at improving education.
The United States is facing a critical shortage of mathematics education doctorates as the number of degrees awarded has not kept pace with recent expansion in career opportunities in the field, according to a University of Missouri-Columbia professor who is watching the trends.
Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism has been awarded $480,000 over three years from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to fund the Knight Ohio Program for Editing and Editing Education.
The University of Illinois at Chicago Great Cities Institute announced the appointment of nine UIC faculty members as its 2000-2001 Great Cities Scholars.
Expectations will be higher for Vice President Al Gore during Tuesday's presidential debate, but both he and Gov. George W. Bush face risks, according to College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University communication professor.
A program that lets "women beyond the traditional age" complete their college degrees marks its 25th anniversary at Smith College.
In his new book, Where I'm Bound, a University at Albany history professor tells the story of a runaway slave who becomes a hero in the Northern Army of the Civil War. It is the first work of fiction based exclusively on an actual black regiment. Inspired by a true story using actual slave narratives.
The University of Georgia is one of eight U.S. institutions awarded grants from the U.S. Department of Education to better train teachers for the challenges of today's classrooms.
Purdue University Calumet has been named a 'Best Practices in Student Services' institution by IBM for pioneering an improved system of registering students and managing enrollment that combines a one-stop, high touch personal approach with World Wide Web-enabled technology.
Temple University's Sisters in Sport Science program will help urban middle school girls learn the mechanics of--and science behind--sports like golf, tennis, fencing and basketball.
Ursinus students will have a close brush with the High Italian Renaissance, as a New York painter recreates his own version of Raphael's famous masterpiece, "The School of Athens," using Ursinus students, faculty, the college's dean and president as models.
The passing of the China Trade Bill on September 19, 2000, will create an increasing demand for highly trained leaders within the business and private sectors in China, according to the President of Webster University.
Ten colleges and universities across the country will receive $2 million in grants from The Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign from the Center for Academic Transformation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The grants were announced this week by the Center's Executive Director.
Extracurricular activities actually help students make good choices, both in school and later in life, according to a long-term study conducted at the University of Arizona.
Grant McCall made an astounding discovery - a previously unknown early stone age site, one of the earliest discovered in Namibia.
Most of the youngsters walking eagerly into kindergartens across America this fall expect school to be fun. Mom or Dad probably told them it would be.
When a University of Illinois student arrived in India this summer to take part in an intensive, month-long study-abroad program, culture shock set in almost instantly -- despite the fact that Indian-American friends had briefed her on what to expect.
New book by Cornell University economics Professor Ron Ehrenberg explains why tuition at select colleges and universities keeps on going up and what can be done about it.
MSU, with grants from NSF, will help teachers use the Internet, as well as support research to figure out if such tools work and what kind of effect they have on those who use them.
Famed Rockne name lives on at Rhodes College. Knute Rockne's great-grandson has taken the small college team to 2-0, so far.
The role of colleges in redevelopment of their host cities is the subject of a community development summit hosted by Connecticut College Sept. 21-22 with participating institutions such as University of Notre Dame, Bates College and others active in downtowns' revitalization.
Simply adopting school uniforms is unlikely to make schools safer and administrators and parents who are considering requiring students to wear uniforms should proceed cautiously, advises a professor of consumer studies at the University of Delaware.
Why is there so much corruption in America? Or, is the real question, why isn't there more? On Sept. 12 at Colgate University, a panel of experts will debate questions about corruption and how limits are set.
The past and future of women's history will converge when the "Agents of Social Change" conference, which marks the official opening for research of eight collections of 20th-century women activists, gets underway at Smith College.
Nearly three percent of Maryland public school students receive medication, most commonly Ritalin, during school hours for treatment of ADHD. There are significant disparities in the treatment rate for minority children and a concentrated use among children receiving special ed services (Pediatrics, 9-00).
Hamilton College has signed a contract with The Posse Foundation to bring a team of 10 multicultural students to the liberal arts campus each year.
Following an extensive international search, Dr. Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven of Cape Town, South Africa, has been selected as the first Henry R. Luce Professor of Health and Human Rights at Trinity College.
Classroom teaching styles are critical to making economic desegregation of schools work effectively, a Johns Hopkins University education researcher and sociologist has found.
View streaming video of talks by Johns Hopkins education experts about summer school, summer learning loss, and year-round schools.
More than 400 returning students competed for 61 spaces in the first of Colorado College's eight-structure, $23-million Western Ridge Housing Complex. The aim of the new housing is to increase CC's student live-in population.
A first-of-its-kind database created by University of Arkansas researchers and made available to school principals and superintendents in Arkansas will help schools identify their academic strengths and weaknesses and better prepare approximately 450,000 students for future success.
Bucknell's 142-year relationship with Burma continues with the endowment of two new scholarships for Burmese students with the help of more than 80 Burmese, including U Kyaw Win, international president of the Committee for the Restoration of Democracy in Burma.
The Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is developing an educational program for middle-school students about alcohol-related birth defects.
A new leadership summit for high school juniors,"take the lead!," will bring 30 promising young women to Mount Holyoke College during the height of the New England fall foliage season for an extended weekend of workshops and activities, October 12-15.
On September 16, hundreds of entering Mount Holyoke College students will spend the day learning about western Massachusetts's Pioneer Valley region, as part of a new orientation program designed to foster connection.
David Perry, director of the Great Cities Institute, a university-wide urban affairs research center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has assumed duties as interim dean for the university's College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
Princeton University has received $745,000 in grants to co-direct a program that allows high-school teachers to work side-by-side with research scientists at six universities in New York and New Jersey.
Northern Michigan University in Marquette will issue 4,200 IBM ThinkPads(r) to full-time undergraduate students through Aug.27. This will mark IBM's largest single distribution at a public university.
Public school districts nationwide are putting more emphasis and resources than ever on improving grades and test scores, but at the same time have cut physical education classes.
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