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...actually helped to deter drug use.”The report observed that college graduates “earn nearly twice as much over a lifetime as those persons who have only a high school diploma.” These findings, along with a “strong consensus among economists that formal education has a positive impact not only on personal income but also on society,” and the discovery that undergraduate education means “decreases in crime” and “decreased dependence upon certain types of public assistance...
...Kirby.After Skocpol’s speech, Kirby opened a scheduled discussion of the proposed general education requirements that would replace the Core Curriculum. A curricular review panel has proposed a set of broad distribution requirements to succeed the Core, but the plan has yet to garner a Faculty consensus.“If this were easy, we would be done by now,” Kirby said at the beginning of his remarks. He emphasized that the Core, established in 1978, needs to change.“We have great difficulty in telling our students with an honest face...
...Alarmed administrators have some theories about why abuse of Adderall and other "study drugs" like Ritalin are on the rise on college campuses across the nation. There’s no consensus on how widespread these drugs actually are—some studies claim that only 3 percent of students use them, while others say it’s closer to 30 percent—but most researchers seem to agree that the numbers are going up, not down. A study at the University of Maryland showed that Adderall is the third most accessible drug on campus, right after alcohol...
Hadfield said that a consensus was emerging for an Outreach and Services Committee, which would meet with House Committees and send out e-mails over House lists...
...tolerated. But the continuing spike in world oil prices underscores the reason why enthusiasm for punitive action may be limited even among some U.S. allies. And there are growing differences between the U.S. and some of its European partners over what a diplomatic solution might entail - an emerging consensus in European policy circles, as well as among self-styled ?realists? on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, holds that a diplomatic solution to the crisis requires that the U.S. abandon its refusal to negotiate directly with Tehran...