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This month, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) released its ninth annual report on how involved students are in both academic and extracurricular activities - which are key indicators of educational quality - at four-year schools across the country. The survey, which is funded by the nonprofit Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, provides hundreds of colleges and universities with some of the most comprehensive data available on how well they're engaging students compared to their peer institutions. The survey's main goal is to help schools figure out how to do a better job of educating college...
...month semester, WGU charges a sixth of the average annual tab at private four-year colleges and half as much as an online for-profit like the University of Phoenix, a mega virtual school that has some 200,000 students. And WGU lets you take as many courses as you can fit in a semester, which means some students are able to finish an undergraduate degree in as little as two years. "Before WGU, I would have had to drive almost two hours to Richmond," says Sandy Newsome, a teacher in rural Virginia who is getting her master...
With no one left in Washington to attack, KEITH OLBERMANN signs four-year, $30 million contract...
...American art who had no prior connection to Harvard and were his own friends. While the six other branches of the Fogg Museum received funding from the University’s budget, the Department of American Art, which was established in 2002, was surviving on year-to-year private donations. But in a four-year campaign orchestrated mainly by Stebbins, the department raised $10.5 million that will now be allocated for American art, the Harvard Art Museum announced on Friday. “It’s a great thing because it means that the department will exist...
...Being a moderate is a difficult position to take, yet it’s this crucial subset of the electorate that eventually provides the four-year mandate for a candidate to lead. The undecided voter has a duty to take into account all pertinent issues before making an informed decision; the research is exhausting, but is worth a lot more than simply subscribing to the claims of attack...