Life News (Education)

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Carpenter, a Teach for America teacher and recent White House intern, will study the relation of education and poverty levels with the goal of policy reform.

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Bloomberg/BusinessWeek gives The Innovator’s MBA program an ‘A’ grade for curriculum, ranks 3rd in the nation for student satisfaction.

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Helping at-risk high schoolers succeed in the classroom has always been difficult. Binghamton University Professor David Sloan Wilson thinks that he has a solution: design a school program that draws upon general theories of social behavior.

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As the 2011-2012 admissions cycle gets under way, the University of Rochester now offers two website innovations designed to provide high school students with more information about the University and the admissions decision-making process.

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) rates 17th in the nation for return on investment in the “What’s Your College Degree Worth?” report by Bloomberg BusinessWeek and PayScale.com.

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The third Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) professor to receive the honor from CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in the past five years, Chrysanthe Demetry is associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center.

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Survey results of recent Hopkins Nursing grads echo trends among the nation's nursing schools, which debunk myths of a shortage of available nursing jobs.

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A sleek white remotely-controlled robot soon will be used by Baylor University Libraries to enrich future curriculum for children in grades K-12 across Texas and perhaps the nation. Funding for cultural aspects of education has been cut drastically in many public schools, but “cultural experiences are very important to a child’s education. We’d like to see that restored,” said Pattie Orr, vice president for information technology and dean of University Libraries at Baylor.

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Funding positions Kennedy Krieger to help reduce health disparities through the development of a diverse public health workforce.

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Applications are now being accepted for the national Better World Books/National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) Libraries and Families Award. Each year, three winning libraries are awarded $10,000 in grants to recognize their exceptional family literacy programming.

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Sunday, December 25, marks the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s last official day of existence, when then-president Mikhail Gorbechev’s resignation formally ended the government Vladimir Lenin instituted.

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A University of Cincinnati researcher will bring Ohio educators up-to-date on issues surrounding evolving technology and the legal responsibilities of schools.

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USC hosted the most international students for the tenth year in a row, according to the annual Open Doors report released Nov. 14 by the Institute of International Education. USC hosted 8,615 international students in the 2010-11 academic year, according to the institute. Chinese students represented the largest segment of USC's international population, at 1,951. Students from India were the second largest group with 1,499. The number of Chinese students represented a record enrollment.

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Butler University will develop a $5 million innovation fund to nurture creative thinking and fast track ideas, curricula and collaboration, President James Danko announced during his Nov. 12 installation ceremony.

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Most colleges offer internships but there is a big difference at Keuka College, a small private college in Upstate New York. They are mandatory. At Keuka, students conduct 140-hour internships—called Field Periods—each year they are enrolled.

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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. This quote from the African American playwright and novelist, James Baldwin, was recently used by Dr. Jack P. Calareso, President of Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA when discussing the cost of higher education and students of low economic means. Referencing research that identified that 80% of the U.S.’s low income students are forced to enroll in the least selective colleges and universities, Dr. Calareso forces educational leaders, government and elected officials and others to face the facts that poorer students have limited access to more selective institutions.

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The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University will celebrate its founding and dedicate its physical location on campus with a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony and public open house during the week of Veterans Day.

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The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV), an education and training program founded in 2007 at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and operated by SU’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), has announced its expansion to the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration. Through its alliance with the School of Hotel Administration, the Culinary Institute of America will also be a part of the EBV training program.

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The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, in tandem with its official opening and dedication on the SU campus, has announced its inaugural advisory board.

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In stride with President Obama’s higher education reform efforts to make college education more accessible and affordable and to help more students succeed once they get there, several University of Rochester researchers and practitioners, who are also doing their part to improve the landscape of higher education, are available for comment and interviews on issues from college access to college retention.