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Certain Degrees Now Cost More at Public Universities Should an undergraduate studying business pay more than one studying psychology? Should a journalism degree cost more than one in literature? More and more public universities, confronting rising costs and lagging state support, have decided that the answers may be yes and yes...
 21 Years After Challenger, a Teacher Gets Her Shot By age 33, Barbara Morgan had taught school on an Indian reservation in the Rockies and in Ecuador's capital in the Andes. That did not quiet her longing for a classroom higher in the sky...
Centered on Innovation The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine has received an endowment gift of $6.6 million from The Beall Family Foundation. Don Beall is a former chief executive officer of Rockwell International Corp. The gift will expand current activities and launch new programs at the Merage School's re-named Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship...
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U.S. Senate Tries to Fix State of Student Loans Two comprehensive bills that recently passed in the U.S. Senate could reshape the federal government's role in higher education for years to come...
For Now, Facebook Foes Continue Fight Against Site A federal judge ruled that three Harvard alums have two weeks to amend their complaints alleging that the founder of Facebook.com-the popular social-networking Web site-stole the idea for the site from them...
College Board Tries to Police Use of 'Advanced Placement' Label When Bruce Poch, the dean of admissions at Pomona College, sees a high school transcript listing courses in AP Philosophy or AP Middle Eastern History, he knows something is wrong. There is no such thing. Neither subject is among the 37 in the College Board's Advanced Placement program...
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Solar Power Makes Tiny Village Beam Barefoot College serves an outlying community of 125,000 people. In a nearby village, women flock to a water desalinization and purification plant set up by the college and maintained by Barefoot graduates. The station, powered by solar panels, provides the area with a rare commodity: clean drinking water...
Presidential Progress In front of a wide window in President Donna Shalala's ground floor office at the University of Miami, two picture frames make perfect bookends for the latest chapters in her remarkable career...
U of I Dean: Wellmark Offer 'Small' University of Iowa College of Public Health Dean Jim Merchant called a $15 million naming gift offer from the Wellmark Foundation "embarrassingly small," yet U of I officials were so close to accepting the gift that they wrote up a draft news release...
Who's Minding the Mind? In a recent experiment, psychologists at Yale altered people's judgments of a stranger by handing them a cup of coffee...
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Fallon Speaks on CNN Former Eastern Michigan University President John Fallon spoke publicly for the first time since his firing, saying he felt betrayed by EMU Vice President for Student Affairs Jim Vick and others who "covered up" from him and the public that a student's death was being investigated as a murder...
Observing The Past The Harvard College Observatory, home to half a million glass photographic plates of the night sky from over 100 years of observations, is currently in the midst of one of the greatest preservation efforts in astronomical history..."
School Adds PowerPoint to Application In a first, the University of Chicago will begin requiring prospective students to submit four pages of PowerPoint-like slides with their applications this fall...
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