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This year's survey highlighted one big group of students who appear to be underserved by many schools: transfer students. NSSE found some 40% of seniors had started at a different institution. Yet according to the survey respondents, transfers tend to receive some of the lowest amount of support on campus. They speak less frequently with faculty members about future plans, work less often with classmates on assignments and half the number of transfers participate in co-curricular activities at about half the rate as non-transfer students. "Schools simply must work harder to pull transfer students in because they...
...South Korean businessmen, bankers and housewives, who fear the consequences of an impending global recession. With the country heavily reliant on exports, South Korea, like the rest of Asia, cannot escape the fallout from a U.S. downturn. Goldman Sachs predicts GDP growth will sink to 3.9% in 2009, the lowest since...
...gave Harvard its first Ivy League title since 1999. Northeastern (13-8-1, 6-5 CAA) had an improbable road to the NCAA Championships. After finishing sixth in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) regular season standings, the Huskies made a run in the league tournament. Although Northeastern was the lowest seed in its conference tournament, the squad won three straight do-or-die games including a 1-0 double overtime victory overHofstra in the title game.It is the first time that the Huskies have made the NCAA tournament. The Crimson’s appearance is its 11th in history...
Across the board, countries scored the lowest in the political empowerment subsection. The United States, which received strong marks in three categories, including a perfect score in educational attainment, was ranked 56th in political empowerment...
Still, Ireland remains an attractive place to do business. It's blessed with a growing labor force of young workers, and it measures up well, too, in terms of taxes: its corporate tax rate of 12.5% is one of the E.U.'s lowest, while levies on labor and capital stack up well against rivals. That's one reason the world's second biggest advertising firm, WPP, announced in September that it plans to shift its headquarters from the U.K. to Ireland; and why pharmaceutical company Shire and publishers United Business Media both announced similar plans earlier this year. The arrival...