Word: americanizing
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...STUDENTS RECEIVING SOME KIND OF FINANCIAL AID [Public] 45% [Private] 52% Sources: Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac; National Center for Education Statistics; American Association of University Professors...
DIED. ALAN HEIMERT, 70, influential Harvard literature professor; of complications from cardiovascular disease; in Washington. Heimert's best-known book, Religion and the American Mind (1966), suggested that Evangelicals helped prompt the American Revolution...
DIED. DAISY BATES, 84, civil rights leader whose memoir, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, won a 1988 American Book Award; in Little Rock, Ark. During rioting in 1957 over the integration of Central High, Bates advised the nine black students. With her husband, she founded the Arkansas State Press--a key voice for the movement. Her crusade, she said, "had a lot to do with removing fear that people have for getting involved...
Cost may be only one factor that is behind a growing move among young Americans to seek their college degrees in Canada, England and Ireland, where the education is first rate and, since English is spoken, understandable. Now, with the cost of an Ivy League education well past the $30,000-a-year mark, the sticker prices abroad are more attractive than ever. An American college student in Canada might spend, on average, U.S.$10,000 for tuition and living expenses; in England, $17,000; and in Ireland, around $14,000. In the past several years, between...
Canada, host this year to more than 3,000 American students, is the most popular destination for those seeking undergraduate degrees abroad, in no small part because it's close to home. Katy Morley, 18, chose Bishop's University in southern Quebec because she wanted to leave Vermont yet remain within a two-hour drive of her family's farm. "I loved Bishop's from the first minute," she says. She appreciates her small classes, the charming Quebec scenery and the "low-key" people, whose "whole mind set is different" from that of Americans...