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Quote of the day:
"Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius."
Robert Brault
University Affirmative Action Threatened by U.S. Top Court Admissions Case (Bloomberg.com)
Colleges may soon have to overhaul decades-old efforts to promote racial diversity after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to reconsider the constitutionality of affirmative action in admissions.
HCC students to pay more in tuition, fees (Bloomington Pantagraph)
NORMAL — Students at Heartland Community College will pay more tuition and fees beginning this summer.
The college’s board of trustees voted Tuesday to raise tuition and fees to $136 per credit hour. The cost had been $131 per credit hour.
A New Push For Vocational Education in Chicago and the U.S. (Chicago Magazine)
Yesterday the city announced a $479 million capital plan to support the city colleges' "College to Careers" program, which, in part, would rebuild and expand Malcolm X College, "including a new Allied Health Academy that will strengthen ties to the Illinois Medical District."
Emanuel: New Malcolm X College will put City Colleges ‘back on the playing field’ (Chicago Sun-Times)
Chicago will build a new $251 million Malcolm X College and 1,500-space parking garage in the shadows of the United Center to create a state-of-the-art facility to train students for careers in health care, Mayor Rahm Emanuel disclosed Tuesday.
Community college enrollment falls as need for paycheck trumps education (Chicago Tribune)
Attending a four-year university immediately after high school just wasn't in the cards for St. Charles resident Kathy Arseneau.
Instead, she spent two years at Elgin Community College before taking time off to save money and help her mother pay bills.
OPINION - Can we keep colleges affordable? (Chicago Tribune)
Most Americans think their children will have a better future if they get through college. By and large they are right. But the cost of paying for school, even at a public university, can be painful.
Accreditors Caution American Colleges as They Create Academic Programs Abroad (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Universities are entering a brave new world when they set up collaborative degree or academic programs overseas, and they must be vigilant in ensuring proper academic standards. That was the message accreditors were delivering at a conference here of senior international officers—along with a reminder that the accrediting organizations are watching.
Report Tracks Differential Tuition at Public Colleges (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Some form of differential tuition, or tuition that varies by academic program, is charged at 143 public colleges, according to a new report from the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. The proportion of colleges offering differential tuition is highest—41 percent—among doctoral institutions, the report says, and the majors most likely to assess differential charges are nursing, business, and engineering.
Tour Highlights Obama's Push for More Collaboration Between Community Colleges and Businesses (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Two high-profile representatives of the Obama administration will hit the road today on a three-day, five-state bus tour to draw attention to successful partnerships between community colleges and businesses.
State waives No Child Left Behind standards (Courier News)
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Board of Education announced Tuesday it has completed a waiver to the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
That waiver, approved by the state board, proposes using multiple measures to evaluate the nearly 4,000 public schools in Illinois, according to a written statement by ISBE.
ECC seeks to clear confusion about financial aid (Courier News)
There are a lot of misconceptions when it comes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, that most college students and their parents fill out each year.
There’s the misconception that if you fill out FAFSA incorrectly once, that’s it — you’re done, you can’t apply for aid again, according to Kim Wagner, managing director of student financial services at Elgin Community College.
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Texas Affirmative Action Case (Diverse Issues in Higher Education)
The hot-button issue of affirmative action in college admissions is heading back to the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that may have a significant impact on post-secondary institutions.
Illinois readies plan on school accountability (Edwardsville Intelligencer)
Illinois has a plan to change the way it evaluates the progress of schools and students. The state is submitting it to the U.S. Department of Education.
OPINION - The Obama Deal: Harvard for $6,700 a Year? (Forbes)
President Obama was too soft in the declaration of war (and peace treaty terms) he issued to university administrators over the spiraling cost of college education. Rather than simply demanding that tuition stops rising, he should have challenged universities to answer why the very best education – the type he got – should cost students any more than $6,700 a year.
GOP lawmakers urge Quinn to back off pension cost shift for local schools (Herald & Review)
Republican lawmakers Tuesday called on Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic leaders to put the brakes on a plan that could shift state pension costs to local school districts and universities
Counting Justices (Inside Higher Ed)
WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five years passed between the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Bakke and Grutter cases. Both rulings upheld the right of colleges to consider race and ethnicity in admissions, but only in certain circumstances (and a companion case with Grutter rejected the use of race in other circumstances).
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/22/colleges-await-supreme-court-review-affirmative-action#ixzz1n7oEU6pD
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The India Question (Inside Higher Ed)
WASHINGTON --- A booming middle class, shortage of local university spots and ready supply of talented English speakers have long made India a favorite recruiting target of American colleges.
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/22/indian-recruitment-focus-aiea-conference#ixzz1n7oh7qA3
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Ambitious EIU campaign flies by goal early (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
CHARLESTON - Bringing in about $3.5 million per month, The "EI&U: Campaign for Eastern" has surpassed its goal of raising $50 million by about $3 million so far.
"Expect Greatness" was the theme for the Eastern Illinois University fund drive, and $53.1 million has been collected since the effort started in October 2010.
Petition about UI's Hogan draws hundreds of signatures (News-Gazette)
URBANA — About 400 professors, including the heads of several academic units, have signed an online petition expressing "serious doubts" about President Michael Hogan's leadership style based on recent emails from his office regarding Chancellor Phyllis Wise.
EDITORIAL: Race, college admissions back before Supreme Court (News-Gazette)
Race-based university admissions policies keep producing lawsuits.
After a nine-year hiatus, the controversial issue involving the use of race as a criteria for college admissions is back before the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Today's Economy, How Far Can A GED Take You? (NPR)
Every year, roughly 750,000 high school dropouts try to improve their educational and employment prospects by taking the General Educational Development test, or GED, long considered to be the equivalent of a high school diploma.
Will Raising School Attendance Age Lower the Dropout Rate? (The Atlantic)
The real problem isn't getting teenagers to stay in school. It's giving them a reason to show up in the first place.
OPINION - At the Supreme Court, Odds Lie Against Affirmative Action (The Atlantic)
The justices will hear a case on whether universities can encourage diversity at the classroom level, but court conservatives may use it as an opportunity to set a new precedent.
Community Colleges Front And Center Of Manufacturing Recovery (The Huffington Post)
STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Fitzpatrick Manufacturing Co. is a high-tech job shop, crafting super-precise parts for machines used in everything from robotics to aerospace to oil exploration. Macomb Community College lies a few miles down the road in this Detroit suburb.
Justices Take Up Race as a Factor in College Entry (The New York Times)
WASHINGTON — In a 2003 decision that the majority said it expected would last for 25 years, the Supreme Court allowed public colleges and universities to take account of race in admission decisions. On Tuesday, the court signaled that it might end such affirmative action much sooner than that.
Colleges Worry That Court Could Make Diversity Harder to Maintain (The New York Times)
The news that the Supreme Court is revisiting the use of race as a factor in admissions decisions, just nine years after upholding it in a University of Michigan case, has admissions officials worried about maintaining diversity and confounded that the question is being reconsidered so soon.
EDITORIAL - Affirmative action faces another showdown (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Apprehension, trepidation, fear - those words may best describe the emotions of many affirmative-action supporters in response to Tuesday's news that the U.S. Supreme Court will again take up that issue.
College admissions: How diversity factors in (The Washington Post)
The Supreme Court just agreed to effectively consider whether affirmative action should be eliminated in college admissions via a case in which a white student claimed that she was denied admissions to the University of Texas because of race.
Colleges deferring more students (USA TODAY)
For several weeks now, many high school seniors have been shuffling through the purgatory of the college admissions process.
Iraq seeks to educate more students in U.S. (USA TODAY)
WASHINGTON – The Iraqi government wants the USA to mold its best and brightest.
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