State Dept denies warning students about WikiLeaks (AP)
AP – The State Department on Tuesday denied that it has warned students not to link to or post online comments about leaked diplomatic cables released by the WikiLeaks website.
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State Dept denies warning students about WikiLeaks
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For-profit schools reel as rules affect enrollment (AP)
AP – The nation’s largest for-profit college is changing admission practices to satisfy new government regulations aimed at preventing students from leaving school with staggering debt they can’t repay, but the result may be that fewer lower-income students will gain entry to class.
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Online Education in the Ivy League (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – In what could be a watershed moment for online education, Dartmouth College has announced it will combine professors from its highly rated Tuck School of Business (ranked 7th by U.S. News) and its Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice to launch a new, mostly online, master’s program designed to prepare mid-career healthcare leaders for the future of their profession. With more provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act going into effect this month, the burden of ensuring effective reform has been passed from legislators to healthcare executives. …
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Consumer confidence retreats further in July (AP)
AP – Americans’ confidence in the economy eroded further in July amid worries about a job market that has proven stubbornly stagnant. The report raised concerns about the overall economy and the back-to-school season.
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House bill would make school lunches healthier (AP)
AP – House Democrats are moving forward on first lady Michelle Obama’s vision for healthier school lunches, propelling legislation that calls for tougher standards governing food in school and more meals for hungry children.
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Financial Aid: Help Is on the Way (BusinessWeek)
BusinessWeek – Students taking out federal student loans will be confronted with a bevy of changes when they visit their school’s financial aid office this fall. This spring, the U.S. Senate passed a student loan bill — the Student Aid & Fiscal Responsibility Act — that led to a major revamping of the federal student loan program, shifting everything from how students obtain their loans to the amount of aid doled out through such programs as the Pell Grant.
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Senior-Student Mentoring Can Be Great Win-Win (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – Effectively pairing senior volunteers with students is one of the big win-win opportunities in virtually every community in the country. There is great need in the schools, and it’s gotten more acute during the recession. Looking ahead, school budgets have been sapped by falling tax revenues and government spending cutbacks. Meanwhile, the future vitality of our country — successful young people who can out-compete their peers from other nations — is being put at more and more risk. Our public education system is in serious trouble.
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Sallie Mae to relocate to Delaware (AP)
AP – Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest student lender, has decided to move its corporate headquarters from Reston, Va., to Delaware.
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Sallie Mae to relocate to Delaware
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Riding a Wave Out of M&A (BusinessWeek)
BusinessWeek – The trail that leads from the Ivy League through law school to white-shoe firm Sullivan & Cromwell rarely ends at a remote Brazilian beach. Yet it did for Hans Keeling after just three years of working on mergers and acquisitions for the New York City law firm. A 2004 trip to Brazil convinced Keeling he would rather advise clients on their vacations than on their capital markets transactions.
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NY’s top court upholds Columbia expansion plan (AP)
AP – New York’s top court on Thursday upheld a state redevelopment agency’s use of eminent domain so Columbia University can expand its Ivy League campus over 17 acres in West Harlem.
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