Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
The number of research doctorates awarded by American universities grew for the sixth straight year and reached another record high in 2007, according to the National Science Foundation’s first report from the annual Survey of Earned Doctorates. The overall rate of growth was 5.4 percent.
But while the increases showed strength in many fields, particularly the [...]
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Posted on November 21st, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. announced a shift last week in how the federal government planned to spend the rest of its $700 financial rescue fund — from buying financial firms’ troubled assets to helping stimulate consumer spending by improving the flow of financing to banks and firms that loan money to individuals [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
By SHELLY BANJO-Wall Street Journal
Colleges and universities are actively encouraging donors to contribute directly to education rather than asking for big gifts toward buildings and programs.
The economic downturn is causing schools to refocus their fund-raising campaigns more on financial aid, scholarships or a school’s general fund, which is typically used for a university’s most pressing [...]
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Posted on November 20th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
More foreign students came to the United States in the 2007-8 academic year than ever before. But while there were some gains in the core undergraduate and graduate populations, particularly at the graduate level, the record result was driven largely by dramatic increases in the numbers of international students employed off-campus through optional practical training [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The goal established by the Arkansas Task Force on Higher Education Remediation, Retention, and Graduation Rates (Task Force) is to design and implement policies that will enable Arkansas to meet the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) average percentage of citizens holding bachelor’s degrees by 2015. The SREB average is projected to be 27% by [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
By Ginny LaRoe
LITTLE ROCK — The University of Arkansas at Little Rock will be smokefree in the fall next year, joining four other University of Arkansas System campuses in prohibiting puffing at school.The policy, which comes with no enforcement plans, will apply to all UALR property, including the W.H. Bowen School of Law and the [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
BEEBE, Ark. (July 25, 2008) – The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board (AHECB) gave its approval today for the 2007-2008 board officers; Chairman Dick Trammel, Vice-Chairman David Leech, and Secretary Lynda Johnson, to serve one more year in their current positions. The recommendation was made by a board nominating committee chaired by Bob Burns who [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
This article was published Monday, July 28, 2008, Arkansas Democrat Gazette
LITTLE ROCK — Photographer given posthumous degree
Will Counts, an Arkansas Democrat photographer who covered the desegregation crisis at Little Rock Central High School in 1957, has been posthumously awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the University of Central Arkansas.
The UCA Board of Trustees voted Friday [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2008 by Jeremy Langley
By Laura Kellams (Arkansas Democrat Gazette)
LITTLE ROCK — State higher education officials have found little evidence that large numbers of illegal aliens are attending college in Arkansas, whether paying instate tuition rates or not.
The Department of Higher Education is working to set up a system to spot students’ Social Security numbers that appear to be [...]
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Posted on February 21st, 2008 by AAPU
By Miranda Grubbs
Assistant News Editor-The Echo (UCA)
Published: February 20, 2008
The Arkansas Association of Public Universities wants to increase the number of Arkansans who hold bachelor’s degrees to help the future knowledge-based economy, organization director Tim Wooldridge said.
According to a 2003 list from the U.S. Census Bureau, Arkansas ranks 49 among the states for [...]
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