Ending the Curse of Remedial Math

CUNY Start, its track record shows that with good teaching and I-have-your-back counseling, youths who otherwise would likely drop out have a solid shot at making it. Researchers at Stanford, Berkeley and Brown universities have shown that CUNY is a more powerful engine of mobility than almost any university in the nation. 

Why We Should Fear University, Inc.

 

Why We Shouldn't Think About College as a Business

"As 'Ivory Tower' shows, colleges invest in facilities and amenities, like multi-million dollar recreation centers or luxury dorms, to attract attendees, who have increasingly become more like customers than students. It's what many critics call the 'corporatism of college' (a very worthwhile article).....

I am always amazed that on every college tour, we spend more time on facilities rather than learning about how the school educates students. 

The article continues with "....a concept called multipotentiality, the ability to excel in multiple fields that are typically unrelated to each other. Multipotentiality has a handful of practical benefits. For example, learning skills in one area can translate to skills in another." 

 

 

 

Harvard looks to Bowdoin in a model eradicating frats, but its decision had mixed results

Mormon university instructor fired after Facebook post supporting LGBT rights, she says

 

China Disrupts WhatsApp Service in Online Clampdown

 

 

 

Our digital addiction makes us miserable

Independent schools could do a much better job educating students on social media. Boarding schools have an especially captive audience. Summer camps are able to limit/restrict the use - why don't all schools strive to do the same?! Our international student integration work for schools touches upon such topics.  

 

I was a poor kid at a wealthy private school. It gave me social mobility, but also a sense of shame

Chinese students and political uncertainty drive rise in applications for financial courses 

"This year 50% of all international students in the FT ranking of global masters in finance course are from China." 

 "Freeman where 94% of this year's cohort are Chinese, is an extreme example but more people from China are seeking to study abroad. Chinese citizens account for more than 90% of students on masters in finance courses at Leeds University Business School in the  UK, the University of Maryland's Robert H Smith School of Business, and Fordham University's Gabelli School of Business in New York." 

Other points mentioned in the article which serve as additional reference points for our International Enrollment Management Under Trump discussions. 

• "He (Ira Solomon, Dean of Tulane's Freeman School) adds there is little sign that US President's Donald Trump's anti-immigration rhetoric has had any effect on the number of overseas applications."
• "...it is the fall in the value of sterling against other currencies after last June's Brexit referendum that is being credited with enhancing the attractiveness of UK institutions."

 

 

 

Haiti quake survivor a BPS valedictorian

"By the time she was in her senior year at Boston Green Academy in Brighton, Norbrun, 18, had a 5.0 weighted grade point average, earning her place as class valedictorian and a full scholarship to Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where she plans to study science, with a tentative plan to go into research or medicine.

Her 19-year-old sister and schoolmate, Marlie Norbrun, is class salutatorian and has a full tuition scholarship to Union College in Schenectady, N.Y."