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July 17, 2009
Education Brief
How Obama's
$12-Billion Plan
Could Change
2-Year Colleges
After the dazzle
fades from the
president's
proposal to
spend an
unprecedented
$12-billion to
improve
programs,
courses, and
facilities at
community
college, many
questions will
remain. The
Chronicle takes
an in-depth look
at how the plan
might play out.
Drive-Time
History, With a
Dry Sense of
Humor
Three professors
in Virginia
aspire to make
history lively
for listeners to
their
public-radio
show.
A Green Building
at Ithaca
College Demands
Help From Its
Occupants
Ithaca College's
newest
energy-efficient
building
requires its
inhabitants to
collaborate.
Education and
Labor Officials
Pledge Closer
Cooperation on
Job Training
The officials
told the Senate
education
committee on
Thursday that
they would align
their
departments'
programs better
to prepare
people for work.
Belmont U.
Course Hints at
What It Means to
Be an American
Ten students and
two professors
share "40 States
in 40 Days," a
six-credit,
9,300-mile bus
tour of the
United States.
Fund-Raising
Offices Make
People a
Priority as
Budgets Are Cut
In the face of
declining
revenue and
institutional
budget cuts,
college
advancement
chiefs are
working to
protect their
most-valuable
assets:
frontline fund
raisers.
Job Training Is
Priority at
Education Dept.,
State Leaders
Are Told
Martha J. Kanter,
the U.S. under
secretary of
education, told
state
higher-education
leaders at their
annual meeting
that she would
make priorities
of improving job
training and
helping students
who work.
In an Unusual
Partnership, a
College Swaps
Tuition for a
New Building
Finlandia
University, a
small
institution in
Michigan, offers
free tuition to
local
high-school
students in
exchange for a
school-district
building and
athletics
fields.
Leaders of the
College of New
Jersey Overturn
a Widely
Protested Tenure
Denial
Top officials at
the College of
New Jersey have
taken the
unusual step of
granting tenure
to an assistant
professor after
an English
Department
committee voted
unanimously in
April to
recommend
against it.
Audio: Students'
Money Woes and
Misconceptions
Beth Kobliner,
author of "Get a
Financial Life:
Personal Finance
in Your Twenties
and Thirties,"
spoke with
students on
college campuses
this spring
about how they
should manage
their money. She
shares some of
what she heard
from them with
The Chronicle.
Green Activists
Mine W.Va. for
New Nicknames as
Mountains Are
Blasted Away
Three
environmentalists
contend that the
West Virginia
University
Mountaineers
should be
renamed to
reflect the
devastation
caused by strip
mining and
mountaintop-removal
mining.
Obama's Plan for
Community
Colleges Raises
Hopes and
Questions
The president
drew on the
experiences of
people at Macomb
Community
College, near
Detroit, to
argue his case
that Washington
needs to give
serious
attention to
community
colleges.
House Bill Would
End Guaranteed
Student Loans
and Overhaul
Perkins Program
The bill, which
will be
introduced by
the chairman of
the House
education
committee today,
would also
provide
additional
mandatory money
for Pell Grants
and expand the
Perkins Loan
program by
$5-billion,
Congressional
aides confirmed
Tuesday night.
Trustees Are
More Engaged but
Still Need
Improvement,
Survey Finds
College
governing boards
are becoming
more effective
and engaged, but
still fall short
in some areas,
according to
survey results
released today
by the
Association of
Governing Boards
of Universities
and Colleges.
Personnel
Matters Private
for University
Leaders? Not in
Nevada
Last week marked
the first time
regents of the
Nevada System of
Higher Education
voted not to
renew a
president's
contract in an
open meeting.
For the man
under the
spotlight, the
experience was
not one he would
recommend to
anyone.
2 Colleges Share
How They Created
Net-Price
Calculators
At their annual
meeting,
student-aid
officials give
tips on
developing the
soon-to-be-mandatory
online tools
that estimate a
student's
college costs.
In Student-Loan
Crunch, Credit
Unions See
Opportunity
The shortage of
traditional
sources of
private student
loans has opened
a door for a new
class of
lenders: credit
unions.
Editor Hopes to
Do for Jewish
Life What He Did
for Communism
The former
editorial
director of Yale
University Press
and general
editor of its
celebrated
Annals of
Communism series
is now in charge
of one of the
world's most
important
archives of
Jewish life.
British Student
Sees How French
Higher Education
Works -- or
Doesn't
A British
student who went
to France to
learn about wine
and tourism in
the Bordeaux
region instead
became an expert
in French
activism when
academic
protests
disrupted her
studies.
Obama to Propose
Graduation Goal
and $12-Billion
in Programs for
2-Year Colleges
The president
will call on the
nation's
community
colleges today
to produce five
million more
graduates by the
year 2020 and
will propose
spending
$12-billion over
10 years to
improve
programs,
courses, and
facilities at
two-year
institutions.
Direct Lending
Takes Center
Stage at Aid
Administrators'
Meeting
Conference
attendees wanted
to know whether
President
Obama's plan to
eliminate the
guaranteed-student-loan
program will be
realized, and
what it will
mean for their
jobs.
Some Small
Colleges Worry
About the Cost
of Obama's Loan
Proposal
Student-aid
officers on some
campuses are
worried about
the
administrative
cost of
switching from
the bank-based
guaranteed-loan
program to
direct lending
if President
Obama's plan is
adopted.
Proposed Changes
in Perkins Loan
Program Leave
Student-Aid
Officials Wary
Education
Department
officials tried
to persuade
colleges that
President
Obama's new
program would
resemble the
existing one,
but aid
administrators
weren't buying
it.
Audio: In a
Washington
Minute --
Student Lenders
Push for a
Last-Ditch
Compromise
Last week 32
student-loan
groups
circulated a
counterproposal
to President
Obama's plan to
end bank-based
student lending.
But with
Congress poised
to take up
student-loan
legislation in
the coming days,
lenders' time
might be running
out, say Kelly
Field and Sara
Hebel.
Video: Creator
of 'The Sims'
Talks
Educational
Gaming
Will Wright, the
video-game
designer
responsible for
some of the
best-selling
titles of all
time, says that
video games are
better at
inspiring
students to
learn than
actually
teaching them.
In Banning
Houseplants, a
College Hopes to
Break the Mold
The Jefferson
College of
Health Sciences
has ordered the
removal of
potted plants
from a campus
building to
fight the
potential for
fungal growth.
Obama Expected
to Announce
Major Proposal
to Support
Community
Colleges
The president
called for fresh
financial
support for
America's
community
colleges on
Sunday as
two-year
institutions
anticipate the
rollout of what
could be a
multibillion-dollar
plan on Tuesday.
Private Effort
to Create
Courses Draws
Praise -- and
Charges of
'Buying'
Curricula
A group with
conservative
connections
urges young
professors to
teach its course
on American
history, and it
pays to sponsor
the course and
to interest
scholars in
teaching it.
Colleges Will
See a Decline in
Megagifts,
Experts Predict
Fund raisers
will need to
focus more on
donors who can
give from
$100,000 to
$999,999, said
speakers at the
annual
conference of
the Council for
Advancement and
Support of
Education.
Brigham Young U.
Marks More Than
2 Decades in
Israel
The university,
one of the first
American
institutions to
open a campus in
Jerusalem, has
faced the
difficulty of
running a
study-abroad
program in an
unstable
country. But now
it is being
joined by two
other American
colleges.
From Chronicle
of Higher
Education (July
13 to 17,
2009)
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