Word: bachelors
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...reach out to low-income families is growing. "We need to reassure low-income students that they have a place at the table," Farmer said. According to the Department of Education's Sept. 2006 report, 1.4 to 2.4 million students of lower- or middle-income status will not receive bachelor's degrees in the current decade, an increase from the projected 1 to 1.6 million in the 1990s...
...Americans take our time off so seriously that you can now get a Ph.D. in leisure studies at Penn State and 17 other renowned universities. That's right--a doctorate, not just a bachelor's. It's such an up-and-coming field in academe that there is an actual shortage of qualified educators. We don't have enough people to teach leisure. I am tempted to make a joke about this, but I don't want to incur the wrath of the leisure scientists. They'll beat me up with lawn chairs...
...procrastinator." BETTY MCNEIL, 82, the oldest member of Harvard's Class of 2006, on why it took her seven years to get her bachelor's degree in liberal arts...
...College will award 1,641 degrees: 1,630 bachelor of arts degrees and 11 bachelor of science degrees, according to the Harvard News Office. The graduating class is composed of 812 women...
...completely subsumed into FAS. Once absorbed, engineering was the only part of the College to eschew formal examinations for undergraduates. (Physics and chemistry, both subjects in the Scientific School, had mandated them). It was also the only discipline to confer undergraduate degrees besides the A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) and S.B. (Bachelor of Science) degrees—in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Metallurgical Engineering. And even the S.B. degree in 1906 did not even require Latin or Greek for admission...