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- Economy Changing the Game of College Admissions
- Elite institutions don't have the upper hand this admissions season. The recession is forcing families to reevaluate the cost of a four-year degree and consider a greater diversity of schools. The result? Applications to some top liberal arts colleges have plunged.
- Videos 2009-04-05
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- Why Athletes Have an Edge at Elite Colleges
- Division III colleges are not allowed to give athletic scholarships. But athletics can help your kid get dough anyway. The D-III Play Officially, financial favoritism for athletes at D-III schools is strictly forbidden. NCAA rules prohibit D-III schools from awarding...
- Articles 2009-06-02
- Indians making their mark on Eastern elite colleges
- Adams, Jim Indian Country Today Lakota Times 08-23-2000 Indians making their mark on Eastern elite colleges By Jim Adams TODAY STAFF CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - When Andrew Lee went to his opening week of classes at Harvard's John...
- Research articles 2000-08-23
- The power of privilege; Yale and America's elite colleges
- The power of privilege; Yale and America's elite colleges. Soares, Joseph A. Stanford U. Press 2007 238 pages $19.95 Paperback LB2351 Yale University together with Harvard stands at the center of an optimistic narrative about the rise of American meritocracy in the...
- Research articles 2007-08-01
- Discriminating Against MIDDLE-CLASS ETHNIC AMERICANS - at the country's elite colleges
- Three-quarters of Americans are underrepresented in the demographic breakdown of the student bodies of the nation's elite universities. Some groups of the American population are severely underrepresented in the student bodies and faculties of the nation's elite universities. This hardly is news. That fact has been heard from the...
- Research articles 1999-11-01
- Academic Elite Goes to Washington, and to War, The
- Critics of the academy have lambasted faculty doves, History shows that academia has roosted a flock of hawks.It has become part of the conventional wisdom that a decidedly left-wing slant influences what students are taught at elite colleges and universities in America, chiefly at Ivy League institutions. This perception has...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Leveling the playing field on endowments: elite institutions are under pressure to spend more of their endowments to help low-income students
- To improve college affordability for low-income students, some lawmakers and education researchers are beginning to ask the question: Why don't elite colleges spend more of their endowments on need-based financial aid? From the halls of Congress to Ivy League institutions, the size and practices of college endowments are generating...
- Research articles 2008-02-07
- FEATURE/Getting Inside America's Elite Colleges: What Every Parent Needs to Know
- Feature Editors & Education Writers FEATURES... NEW YORK --BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 23, 2002 So, you want your child to attend an Ivy League school? If you think acceptance depends on his or her high school, you're on the right track. In its September 2002 issue, Worth magazine investigates...
- Research articles 2002-08-23
- Best Colleges: The Real Rankings
- With so many college rankings and so many different schools rated No.1, it's hard for parents to know whom to believe. An exclusive MoneyWatch.com analysis has the answer. U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Kiplinger’s, and a few others have their own special recipe to pick the winners, and...
- Articles 2009-09-24
- Top Colleges to Cut Big Aid Packages?
- For about two years the nation's most elite schools have been letting families participate in a fabulous trade-in opportunity. Parents pay a pittance to a school like Princeton, Harvard and Swarthmore and in return their child gets to earn a bachelor's degree that retails for more than $200,000. ...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- How to Pay Your Kid's Tuition with an Athletic Scholarship
- To wrangle financial aid, you'll have to start early. Every year, thousands of former kinder kickers and pee-wee running backs get big-league tuition breaks or favored admissions at colleges their grades alone would never qualify them for. Why not yours? After all, you've spent obscene amounts...
- Articles 2009-06-02
- J.P. Morgan expands reach to African-American elite.
- Corporate executives, black colleges targeted One of Wall Street's most exclusive white-shoe banks is throwing open its mahogany doors to one of the fastest-growing segments of the business elite -- rich African-Americans. While rich bla ...
- Research articles 2001-04-02
- -WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: WPI joins elite college group with membership in Internet2.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-2 November 1998-WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: WPI joins elite college group with membership in Internet2 C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:021198 Worcester, Mass. -- WPI announces that it has joined an elite group of colleges and universities when it became a member of Internet2, a project of...
- Research articles 1998-11-02
- Are Elite Universities Discriminating Against Asians?
- Are Ivy League schools and other elite universities guilty of an Asian bias? It's a natural question to ask based on a new book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal:Â Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life. According to Thomas Espenshade,...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- DeLay: Our Military Makes Our Academia Possible; House Votes toProtect Military Access to Higher Education
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today said elite colleges and universities that block our nation's military from recruiting their students should be denied federal funds, as the House of Representatives voteWASHINGTON, Feb. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today...
- Research articles 2005-02-02
- Exclusive bank seeks black elite; J.P. Morgan targets colleges, growing number of wealthy businesspeople.(J.P. Morgan Private Bank)(Brief Article)
- One of Wall Street's most exclusive white-shoe banks is throwing open its mahogany doors to one of the fastest-growing segments of the business elite-rich African-Americans. While rich black entertainers and athletes have traditionally been sought One of Wall Street's most exclusive white-shoe banks...
- Research articles 2001-04-16
- Blacks in the White Elite: Will the Progress Continue?(Book Review)
- BLACKS IN THE WHITE ELITE: WILL THE PROGRESS CONTINUE? By Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003. 210 pp. Softbound, $29.95. Blacks in the White Elite continues the authors' tracking of a set of young African Americans...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- Datatel Presents Vermont State Colleges System Its Partners in Excellence Award; Colleges System Recognized for Excellence in Higher Education and Strong Commitment to Datatel
- FAIRFAX, Va. -- Datatel, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise resource planning solutions for higher education, today announced that the Vermont State Colleges VSC System has been named the winner of the company's 2004 Partners in Excellence award. The award was announced at the New England Regional Datatel Users' Group...
- Research articles 2004-08-17
- Best of Ben - Popular Posts from the Archives
- Many months ago Breck Yuntis at Duke University asked me if I had a "Best of" list for this blog. I've been blogging since June 2004 and have posted 1,011 times. One of the problems with the reverse chronological nature of blogs is that the "best" posts aren't necessarily promoted...
- Blog posts 2007-02-03
- Keith Doyle Column: 'Elite' are in a different class
- WHILE the Taoiseach has been banging on about universities not being just for the "elite", one of the newest, Dublin City had a revamp to ensure its place amongst the top colleges. But haven't they got the new and trendy "DCU" logo for the school of learning...
- Research articles 2001-05-27
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