Green River Community College, 45 minutes south of Seattle, has no special overseas cachet, no global name recognition — but it has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them recruited by overseas agents who get 15 percent of the $9,732 first-year tuition
Smaller Colleges Rely on Paid Student Recruiters Overseas
February 5, 2012 By
Made in the World
January 29, 2012 By
If only — if only — we could come together on a national strategy to enhance and expand all of our natural advantages: more immigration, most post-secondary education, better infrastructure, more government research, smart incentives for spurring millions of start-ups — and a long-term plan to really fix our long-term debt problems — nobody could touch us. We’re that close.
The New Student Activism
January 21, 2012 By
“I’m not sure it would’ve happened if Occupy Wall Street wouldn’t have started,” said Marina Keegan, of the Morgan Stanley protest at Yale, where she is a senior. “Definitely people are starting to think more critically about their choices after graduation and how they affect not just themselves, but the world.”
Cornell Chosen to Build Science School in New York City
December 20, 2011 By
The donor whose $350 million gift will be critical in building Cornell University’s new high-tech graduate school on Roosevelt Island is Atlantic Philanthropies, whose founder, Charles F. Feeney, is a Cornell alumnus who made billions of dollars through the Duty Free Shoppers Group.
Stanfords Dream of Silicon Valley II Dissolves Into Angry Recriminations
December 19, 2011 By
First came the surprise: Stanford University, perhaps the front-runner in a competition to build a big, new science-and-engineering campus on free land in New York City, suddenly withdrew on Friday.
Now come the recriminations: Did Stanford pull out because it took on more than it could handle and didnt want to face an embarrassing loss? Or did New York City pull a bait-and-switch on an unsuspecting partner?
Stanfords Dream of Silicon Valley II Dissolves Into Angry Recriminations
A Scholarly Role for Consumer Technology
November 28, 2011 By
While specialized education tools have long played an important role in the classroom, some of the most commonly used gadgets and Web sites have become teaching tools of choice at business schools like Essec and elsewhere.
Facebook is increasingly used to foster a sense of community for business school classes that meet just a few times a semester; Twitter is used as a way for students to be heard in big halls, letting them ask questions during lectures without having to raise their hand or voice; and videoconferencing software is used at many business schools as a tool for communication between far-flung networks of professors and experts.
After Decades of Expansion, South Korea Has More Colleges Than It Needs
November 27, 2011 By
With a demographic crisis looming, the government now admits that the expansion has gone too far. “We allowed too many universities to open,” says Sung Geun Bae, director general of South Korea’s education ministry. Mr. Sung points out that his country simultaneously has one of the world’s highest university enrollment rates—and one of the world’s lowest birthrates. “Fifteen years ago we needed all those universities, but times have changed.”
After Decades of Expansion, South Korea Has More Colleges Than It Needs
As Graduates Move Back Home, Economy Feels the Pain
November 17, 2011 By
Even before the recession began, young people were leaving home later; now the bad economy has tethered them there indefinitely. Last year, just 950,000 new households were created. By comparison, about 1.3 million new households were formed in 2007, the year the recession began, according to Mr. Zandi. Ms. Romanelli, who lives in the room where she grew up in Branford, Conn., said, “I don’t really have much of a choice,” adding, “I don’t have the means to move out.”
Occupy protests focusing increasingly on student debt
November 15, 2011 By
A prominent if disputed criticism of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been its amorphous, platform-free nature. But as the protests that began in New York in September have continued, spreading across the United States and the world, one clear issue of concern has emerged: student loan debt.On the movement’s unofficial manifesto, the “We Are the 99 Percent” Tumblr blog, young adults hold handwritten signs with their personal stories. More often than not, they include tens of thousands of dollars of debt and, the former students write, little hope for good job opportunities.
