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...have remained relatively high, and families everywhere are feeling the pinch. Significant tuition increases are anticipated at many schools, and financial aid programs may have trouble keeping up—especially at smaller private institutions. We are dismayed that this is the case; nevertheless, we believe that a pragmatic partnership of the public and private sectors has the potential to mitigate the effects of the current recession on college affordability. At the institutional level, colleges and universities can take a number of steps to enhance affordability. Schools with merit-based financial aid or athletic scholarship programs should consider scaling these...
...study by the non-partisan National Partnership for Women and Families looked closely at the EEOC's figures for the decade between 1996 and 2005 and found that more than half of the complaints came not from the more traditionally chauvinistic mining or building trades but from five female-heavy industries: retail, services, finance, real estate and insurance. "One of the most ironic cases was that of a maternity store that had a policy of not hiring pregnant employees," says Jocelyn Frye, General Counsel for the Partnership...
...survey, called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), was created by a public-private partnership including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the federal government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was conducted in about 60% of all U.S. hospitals between July 2006 and June 2007 and designed to help administrators establish appropriate hospital policies while arming health consumers with the tools to pick the best care providers...
...Another important issue for Cambridge is sustainability. What can Harvard do in partnership with the city to become more sustainable...
...same time, the investment-friendly biotech industry is blossoming with the official opening on Monday of the North Carolina Research Center in Kannapolis, just 30 minutes from downtown Charlotte. The public-private partnership is the vision of David Murdock, the billionaire owner of Dole Food Company and Castle & Cooke. Estimates are that eventually the campus will create 5,500 biotech jobs locally and 37,000 related jobs across the region. More than symbolic, the NCRC stands on the grounds of a former textile mill, Pillowtex, which closed in 2003 with a loss of nearly 5,000 jobs...