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Ryan Budget Freezes Maximum Pell Grants

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.12.2013 | Politics
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Under Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis) "Path to Prosperity" budget framework for 2014, college students would have one less weapon against the creep of climbi...

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Governing Higher Ed Through Balance: Why Cultivating Collaboration Is Crucial, Now More Than Ever

H. Kim Bottomly | Posted 11.24.2012 | College
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H. Kim Bottomly

The deep-seated vein of anti-intellectualism that runs through American culture has subtle effects as well as blatant ones -- and I think, could help explain the recent spate of dramatic failures in university governance.

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Saving Social Science

Paul Stoller | Posted 05.21.2012 | Home
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Paul Stoller

STEM is important in the future of higher education, but so are the social sciences and humanities which teach students how to think critically and to how assess the social and cultural ramifications of rapid technological change.

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5 Things Obama's Budget Does For Higher Ed

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.14.2012 | College
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President Obama's budget proposal for the 2013 fiscal year would beef up spending on higher education. Appropriately, he unveiled it at a community c...

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Libya To Freeze Funds For 2,000 US College Students

AP | NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS | Posted 07.13.2011 | College
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SPOKANE, Wash. — About 2,000 Libyan students who attend college in the U.S. will lose financial support after Libya lost access to about $30 bil...

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Colleges See Prospective Donors Among New Students

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — The drill for new college students remains pretty consistent: grab a campus map, buy some overpriced textbooks, save those quart...

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