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State ranks No. 4 in school suspensions

20 hours ago ago from The Political Agitator

Only three other states suspend a higher percentage of their students each year, according to the National Center of Education Statistics. Suspensions are particularly high in the Triangle. Wake County, which educates 9 percent of the state's public school students, accounts for 20 percent of all long-term suspensions. In the 2007-2008 school year, the latest [...]

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Why N.C. State doesn’t deserve this

12 hours ago ago from The Raleigh 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Raleigh, NC

Imagine you are the head of a large department in a vastly larger company. Your CEO comes to you and mentions that the company chairman's wife is looking for a new job. She'd be a great fit for your department, says the CEO. What do you do? Well, you hire her, of course. That, apparently, was the decision made by the administration of N.C. State University last year. As the Raleigh News and Observer has reported, the University ...

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India Private University Notice

20 hours ago ago from Transcript Research

India's University Grants Commission (UGC) just published a list of the 53 private universities (by state) that are legally allowed to award degrees to students on their campus. The UGC's notice specifically states that they are not allowed to affiliate another institute or college. In addition, they are not authorized to establish off-campus centers outside the state in which they were created (though, after 5 years & with UGC pre-approval, ...

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Scholarship Grants or Financial Aid?

12 hours ago ago from Multifunctional WordPress Blog» Multifunctional WordPress Blog

Just what is the real cost of a college education and is there a financing scheme available? Well, lets face reality a college education is really very expensive, causing many parents alarm when their children are considering going to a community college or a state university. There are a lot of things that make up the total cost of a college education and the tuition fees are just a part of the whole story of getting into college. ...

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Landesberg-Boyle witness to success through involvment in Student Government

7 hours ago ago from Dr. Jill Landesberg-Boyle

In working in higher education, surrounded by gifted and talented minds both young and shall we say not so young I have had the opportunity to cross paths with very impressive student, staff and faculty members. I remember one student Erin, who was a shy young woman from a small rural town in Louisiana.  Erin was someone at that point in her history that you might be just unfortunate enough to not even notice, She sat in the back of the ...

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Black Colleges Slam Miss. Governor's Plan To Merge HBCUs : NPR

7 hours ago ago from NPR

Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Black Colleges Slam Miss. Governor's Plan To Merge HBCUs December 16, 2009 [11 min 23 sec] text size A A A December 16, 2009 Mississippi Gov. Haley ...

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Iowa governor signs efficiency plan cutting $128M

4 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Iowa governor signs efficiency plan cutting $128M DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa Gov. Chet Culver signed an executive order Wednesday expected to save the state nearly $128 million through government efficiency efforts and called for lawmakers to approve early retirement incentives for state workers in order to save millions more. Culver also said it's likely the Legislature will close one of the state's four mental health institutions in ...

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Alabama colleges seek more in lean times

3 hours ago ago from Media General - NBC13.com

Search: Keyword Site Web | RSS + - Text Size Print Share This Alabama colleges seek more in lean times Associated Press Published: December 16, 2009 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Higher education in Alabama is seeking more money for next year, even though legislative fiscal experts predict no extra money will be ...

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Assessing the Value of a College Degree

21 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

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Despite Economy, Early College Applications Rise

2 hours ago ago from The New York Times

This was the year when the frenzy to gain early admission to the nation's most selective colleges seemed likely to subside, at least in part because a student admitted under a binding early program cannot seek competing financial aid offers as leverage to negotiate a better package. Cheryl Senter/Bloomberg News Baker Hall at Dartmouth College, which among other highly selective colleges, received substantially more ...

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