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...post-game interview, the euphoric LSU head coach, John Brady, gushed into the microphone about how his excellent group of guys had worked so hard and deserved the victory. But what student athletes really deserve is a future, and a successful life after college basketball glory begins with a diploma...
...black women, but they're also worse off than they were just a few years ago. More than a fifth of black males in their 20s who did not go to college were incarcerated in 2004, up from 16 percent in 1995. Black males without a high school diploma-and they account for more than half of all black men -were in 2004 more than twice as likely as white males without a high school diploma to be jobless (72 and 34 percent, respectively...
...Reasoning requirement to the general education system is a recipe for disaster. Students would be better served by a simple open-ended system, like the one proposed, in which they were attracted to ethics courses by the dynamism of the class rather than the threat of not receiving a diploma...
...most students study abroad somewhere far from home, Yeshiva University senior Sarah Rindner is spending a semester in an environment more spiritually than geographically foreign. While she’ll return to Yeshiva—a modern orthodox Jewish university in New York City—to receive her diploma, she’s wrapping up her college career in Cambridge. Rindner says she came to Harvard because the Yeshiva Jewish community “was claustrophobic. I know it’s my last semester, and I wanted to make some positive memories...
...compare to the experience at traditional four-year schools. The solution, then, is for private accreditation agencies to evaluate online programs to ensure that their curricula are as close as possible to a comparable physical college—or, at the very least, that the schools are not merely diploma-mills. This is similar to the current system for physical colleges; before a student can be eligible to use federal aid at a particular school, the Department of Education uses the ratings of private firms to evaluate physical colleges. The current lack of a universal accreditation for online schools should...