A recent re-accreditation report by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges has ranked Brown ahead of many of its fellow institutions — Brown "may be the best among its peers in scheduling classes five full days a week," according to the report.Students needn't worry about the report's ...
College students — both American and foreign — are studying abroad in record numbers, according to an exhaustive annual survey of international education.According to the report, "Open Doors," which was released Monday by the Institute of International Education, the number of foreign students ...
A freshman at Princeton is suing the university for allegedly denying her appropriate accommodations for her learning disabilities, the Daily Princetonian reported last week.
Brown graduate Lynn Pasquerella will be the 18th president of Mount Holyoke College, the school announced on Monday. Pasquerella PhD'85 was selected Oct. 31 in a special meeting of the Mount Holyoke Board of Trustees after a unanimous recommendation from the Trustees' search committee."Lynn represents ...
Providence real-estate mogul Ed Bishop '54 P'86 P'91 wants to build a $35 million luxury hotel on Brook Street with easy access to campus and Thayer Street businesses and is attempting to get his proposal approved by the Providence City Planning Commission.
College enrollment among the nation's 18- to 24-year-olds has reached a record high of 39.6 percent, or 11.5 million young adults, enrolled in a two- or four-year college, according to a Pew Research Center report released last week.
The number of international students — particularly those coming from Asia — has increased dramatically on U.S. campuses over the past several years, a trend that is changing the face of college admissions in many ways.According to the Institute of International Education, more than 68,000 ...
Morehouse College — a small, all-male, historically black school outside of Atlanta — has faced controversy in recent weeks after administrators implemented a student dress code that bans cross-dressing. Some students and critics outside the college say the policy unfairly targets queer ...
Facing campus protests, a Harvard student group has rescinded an invitation to controversial anti-immigration activist Jim Gilchrist to speak at a forum this weekend.
A student at the University of California, Los Angeles was critically injured last Thursday after a fellow student stabbed her five times and slashed her neck in an organic chemistry lab between classes.
The Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted Monday to increase in-state tuition for its public colleges, according to the Providence Business News. The tuition hike will take effect in September 2010 and will raise tuition fees between eight and 10 percent.Of the three public institutions ...
Students at Tufts University may not have to worry about unwanted nighttime guests any more, thanks to a new stipulation in the school's residential life office's guest policy.The provision forbids any sexual act in a dorm room when a roommate is present, stating that any such act must not interfere ...
The investigation into the Sept. 8 strangling of Yale graduate student Annie Le has progressed quickly since late last week.
As the school year and the fall flu season begin, colleges and universities nationwide have already seen tens of thousands of reported cases of swine flu, and they are bracing for more.
Google accidently misdirected 22 students' e-mails while shifting their Brown inboxes from Microsoft Exchange to Gmail last Friday — a problem that was only resolved Tuesday, according to Computing and Information Services.
Mount Holyoke College will start an expanded pre-orientation program this fall for white students from the U.S. focusing on race and social justice issues to complement its existing programs for minority and international students.
Benedict College, a small private school in Columbia, S.C., has reached a settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued the historically black college on behalf of three white faculty members who claimed to be victims of racial discrimination.
Two of President Obama's planned commencement addresses — at the University of Notre Dame and at Arizona State University — have engendered controversy in recent weeks.
Maryland state legislators threatened to withhold funding from the University of Maryland after the student union planned a screening of the X-rated film "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge." After the university cancelled the event earlier this month, a group of student activists screened a portion of ...
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