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...same time, IBM launched a $2 million program that will pay for tuition, licensing and interim salaries for employees who want a bridge to new careers as math and science teachers. Kathy Kelly, 58, plans to cross over. In her 36 years with IBM, she has stuck with the company through 18 different job titles and assignments in China and Chicago. As the single mother of two school-age children, Kelly isn't ready to retire but needs to dial back the 24/7 demands of her job as a global-strategies director. Teaching middle-school math will better match...
...year, for example, American law schools received a total of 95,800, nearly one third of which were submitted after the deadline. Though the exact reason for the shrinking applicant pools of recent years is impossible to pinpoint, admissions experts cite an improved general job market, rising law school tuition, increasingly competitive admission rates, and a return to more typical numbers of applicants after large increases in the preceding years. Some have said that the decrease in applicants could simply reflect a change in career preferences and that the prominence of lawyers in popular culture has accounted for much...
...great university,” said author and playwright William A. Strauss ’69, an outspoken critic of the HMC compensation structure. “The amount they are paying these individuals is enough that you could take some of that money and have a tuition freeze, to substantially reduce the debt burden on students from middle and working class families...
Participants accumulated credits in exchange for a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or a Ph.D. in Charm. Unlike MIT’s usual selectivity, Charm School boasts an admission rate of 100 percent to interested participants with free tuition to boot...
...year. Whatever metrics are used, the story is the same: the odds are stacked against those students who come from poor backgrounds. Federal funding for student loans has long served as a life raft for students and families worried about debt from what can be prohibitively high tuition costs. Many students enter college knowing they will graduate with thousands of dollars in debt (the median debt for a Harvard student in the Class of 2005 was $6,400). The increase in interest rates on student loans will serve as a disincentive for many promising students to attend college, and make...