When it comes to religious diversity on campus, a small liberal arts college in eastern Pennsylvania may be leading the way. Muhlenberg College is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, but its students have found an open, caring community for members of all denominations.
Purdue University has embarked on a long-term, $200 million expedition to upgrade its Schools of Engineering facilities and expand them by almost 60 percent.
General Colin L. Powell will join Michael S. Olson of the American Society of Association Executives, along with local students and their mentors, as part of a rally to build support for Groundhog Job Shadow Day 2000.
Five poets will travel to The University of Tulsa as part of an innovative English course in which freshmen and sophomores will study the published works of the poets.
Ball State students are reading Australian books and then having online debates and discussions with their counterparts down under who are reading the same materials.
The University at Buffalo has figured out how to keep information flowing to freshmen through the development of MyUB, an online portal that actually grows with the student.
A Hamptons' college and a Queens' high school hope that their collaboration will help inner city students toward higher education.
Business leaders, educators and brain researchers will come together on January 20, 2000 to share information and common concerns. This innovative conference joins three vastly different groups who share common goals and concerns, and is being sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Under a new grant, one university is helping future librarians understand and cope with the demands of electronic information systems in the public library setting through Web-based classes that begin Jan. 18.
Journalists interested in learning more international human rights can add to their knowledge and enhance their understanding of this complex issue through a week-long fellowship this March at Trinity College.
The Tutorial College at Trinity will allow 60 sophomores to live in their own dormitory, create their own honor code, and study with an interdisciplinary group of professors.
Civil rights activist and former Georgia legislator Julian Bond will discuss "2000: A Race Odyssey" at Rhodes College's celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the result of a $23 million gift from a foundation of New York investor Stanley Druckenmiller, Bowdoin College will be able to establish endowments in information and educational technology.
Online pedagogy study by UI researchers concludes that compensation for inherent alienation is needed, the Internet is inappropriate for undergraduate degree programs, and quality online instruction is more costly than traditional instruction.
Purdue University students will immortalize the 20th century's most significant inventions Feb. 12 during the 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
Disadvantaged elementary school students who regularly attended a summer school program made significant academic gains compared with students who stayed home.
Purdue University students will immortalize the 20th century's most significant inventions Feb. 12 during the 18th annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
A Chicago-area school recently began using virtual programs that, projected three-dimensionally, link education, technology, and fun for first- through sixth-graders.
Professors of economics at Hamilton College conducted a study among liberal arts colleges, attempting to answer the question of why there are so few women interested in economics classes.
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Faculty and college students agree that understanding diversity is important for success after graduation, according to a recent Ball State University survey.
Education writer and school-reform advocate Michael Klonsky, director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been named to the Academic Advisory Council of the National Campaign Against Youth Violence.
A Kent State professor has embarked on building a worldwide Internet community for the deaf, their parents, and their current and future teachers and, in the process, is creating a revolution in deaf/hard of hearing education.
Researchers at Ohio State found that the acoustics of many classrooms are poor enough to make listening and learning difficult for children. Only two of 32 classrooms studied met the standards recommended by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
In recent debates, proponents of school choice have maintained that parents would make choices based on school quality and school preferences, not on racial bias.
An 18-year-old senior at Centre College has become one of the youngest Americans ever named a Rhodes Scholar. He is interested in mathematical modeling as a way of studying human diseases.
The number of foreign students attending colleges and universities in the U.S. increased 2% in the 1998-99 school year to a record total of 490,933, according to a report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
The number of U.S. students receiving credit for study abroad jumped nearly 15% from the previous year, reaching a record total of 113,959, according to a report published by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
Univ. of Kansas' journalism school unveils convergent curriculum that capitalizes on technological advances like the Internet while maintaining strong editing, writing.
The University of Maryland is creating the nation's first living-learning entrepreneurship program that will bring together undergraduate students from different disciplines to study entrepreneurship, live and work together in a specially equipped dorm, and perhaps even create their own startup businesses.
A new Web-based international business course links teams of students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with teams of students from universities in Italy, Chile and Hong Kong.
The number of high school graduates has risen from a little more than one out of 100 students to some four out of five in the past 100 years. But the American century has seen its share of successes and failures in education, according to faculty at Vanderbilt UniversityÃs Peabody College of education and human development.
Declining SAT scores by Indiana's high school students may be due to several factors, says a Ball State University educator.
Universities in the Far East are struggling to keep up with advances in computer technology, says a Ball State University study.
A new University of Wisconsin-Madison online science course in geology based on the content of the popular Why Files Web site promises to draw sciencephobes like claim jumpers to a gold strike.
Parents seeking quality education alternatives for kids enrolled in public schools can find what they're looking for at a small schools exhibition coming to the University of Illinois at Chicago.
To edit video images of a research project in Mexico, Mississippi State University graduate student Alan Jones doesn't head for a television studio. He drops by the School of Architecture.
David Perlmutter, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of America.
Smith College President Ruth J. Simmons is calling upon colleges and universities to develop a set of principles for dealing with racial inequities inside their institutions and, by extension, within society as a whole.
With the help of the National Science Foundation, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and four Wisconsin school districts have launched a comprehensive initiative to reinvigorate the way science and math are taught and learned at the primary, middle and high school levels.
Forcing students to simply repeat a grade doesn't help children's educational achievement, but enrolling them in high-quality early childhood programs does, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has found in two separate studies.
Grounding mathematics problems in real-life contexts through video technology gives some low- and average-achieving students a double boost: They perform better on tests and then can apply what they learned to new projects.
Linking teacher pay raises to how well or poorly students perform on standardized tests is a step in the wrong direction, says a Ball State University educator.
Those blue-and-red Pokemon cards that have become an obsession for many elementary school students and are causing disruptions in some classrooms should be expelled, says a Ball State University expert.
Hotel students learn, earn more working for off-campus high-tech Internet startup company RealTime Hotel.
Washington and Lee University's Mock Convention is a quadrennial tradition in which student delegates attempt to predict the presidential nominee of the political party currently out of the White House. W&L students have been right 11 of the last 12 times.
Herbert I. Schiller, professor emeritus and founder of the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego, is the 1999 recipient of the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
Ball State University experts are available to provide information and background on a variety of holiday related issues.
Whether they're looking for guidance about applying to college, tips on writing a resume or information about college financial assistance, high school students can find help on the Internet at a World Wide Web site called "Elaine Harlan's College Advice."
Cornell University and Ithaca, NY Sciencenter host a NASA-supported workshop for science teachers in middle and high schools from across the Northeast that will take advantage of Cornell's involvement in the space agency's Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission to explore a distant asteroid.
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