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...institutions, including Harvard College. According to the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, the Class of 2012 is 17 percent “international;” this includes all students with either exclusively foreign or dual U.S. citizenship. But despite all the institutional advantages conferred by a Harvard diploma, many recent alumni are left out in the cold by University Hall. Harvard’s delayed commencement date—in 2009, graduating seniors will receive their diplomas on June 4—is more than two months after the deadline for entering the lottery for the much-coveted...
...waste anyone's time or money. You won't find that phrase emblazoned on a T shirt, but it's essentially the motto of Western Governors University (WGU), a private online school that has worked hard to prove it is anything but a diploma mill...
...might want to come back after you graduate, too,” he chuckles. “You haven’t been to Harvard if you haven’t been to here. It’s probably an empty diploma without the experience of Mr. Bartley’s burgers...
...Youthbuild, which helps 30 to 40 out-of-school youths earn a high school diploma or GED while participating in affordable housing construction programs throughout the year, has lost $83,000 of its state funding, or roughly 30 percent of its budget. Mediation for Result, which helps resolve tenant-landlord disputes, has seen half of its state funding disappear, and Biomedical Careers Training has had its $140,000 state funding allocation eliminated entirely...
...Bush Administration, however, has now been prompted to action by a series of studies that have shown the severity of the country's dropout crisis. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world where children are now less likely to receive a high school diploma than their parents were, according to an Oct. 23 report by the Education Trust, a children's advocacy group based in Washington. At the same time, two-thirds of new jobs in the U.S. require at minimum a college degree. That education gap could lead to devastating outcomes if a lack of skilled...