College presidents want to help graduates
find jobs but believe their institutions are struggling to do so, according
to a recent survey by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed.
Inside Higher Ed, August 27, 2014
FBI
Raids 2 Campuses of Shuttered For-Profit College
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Tuesday raided two campuses of
Anamarc College as well as the home of the shuttered for-profit
institution’s owners, the El Paso Times reported. The agents
searched one of the college’s two campuses in El Paso, Tex., and its campus
in Santa Teresa, N.M. The college closed in June because of financial troubles.
It offered programs in medical fields and at one point enrolled more than
1,200 students on three campuses. FBI officials said they were
executing search warrants at the three locations, but the nature of those
searches was not immediately clear.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 28, 2014
Generation
Later, Poor Are Still Rare at Elite Colleges
As the shaded quadrangles of the nation’s elite campuses stir to life for
the start of the academic year, they remain bastions of privilege. Amid
promises to admit more poor students, top colleges educate roughly the same
percentage of them as they did a generation ago. This is despite the fact
that there are many high school seniors from low-income homes with top
grades and scores: twice the percentage in the general population as at
elite colleges. A series of federal surveys of selective
colleges found virtually no change from the 1990s to 2012 in enrollment of
students who are less well off — less than 15 percent by some measures —
even though there was a huge increase over that time in the number of such
students going to college. The New York Times, August 25, 2014
How to Get
Girls Into Engineering? Let Them Build Toys
Two Women Launch a Startup Aimed at Giving Girls New Options (and Maybe New
Futures) When Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen met in 2010, both were in
engineering master's programs at Stanford University—mechanical and
electrical, respectively. But there weren't many other women
around. Chatting about why there were so few female engineers, the
pair realized that they had both grown up with toys that encouraged them to
build and make things, rather than traditional toys for girls. ... The
friends agreed it would be great if there were toys aimed at nudging girls
toward tinkering and eventually into engineering. In May 2012 they launched
a campaign on Kickstarter to fund the development of their toys, which they
dubbed Roominate.
The Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2014
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