5 years after Tech, Va. colleges gauge threats
Virginia’s colleges and universities have quietly investigated hundreds of students, employees and others in recent years to prevent a repeat of the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007, when a student gunman left a series of increasingly disturbing warning signs before killing 32 people and himself.
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5 years after Tech, Va. colleges gauge threats
Islamists win Jordan teachers’ union election
Jordan’s powerful Islamists and their allies won a landslide victory in leadership elections for the country’s first teachers’ union, results showed on Saturday.
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Cuomo, Legislature strike on-time NY budget deal
New York is poised to embark on a large economic development program, provide more assistance to the poor, and increase spending on public schools under a budget deal announced Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders.
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CHP releases dozens arrested at Capitol protest
Nearly all of the 72 people arrested during this week’s protests over funding for higher education at the state Capitol have been released, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday.
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6 Ways College Students Can Find Summer Jobs
Finding a job in this economy is difficult for anyone, but some evidence suggests teens are among the hardest hit. If a summer job for yourself or your college student is on your to-do list, consider these ideas to help make it happen.
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Obama takes tougher stance on higher education (AP)
AP – Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money?
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NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast (AP)
AP – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
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3 still critical after fatal NJ school bus crash (AP)
AP – Three New Jersey schoolchildren remain hospitalized with serious injuries in the aftermath of a bus crash that killed the sister of two of them.
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Brown U. student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech (AP)
AP – The recording was forgotten, and so, too, was the odd twist of history that brought together Malcolm X and a bespectacled Ivy Leaguer fated to become one of America’s top diplomats.
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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan (AP)
AP – Public university presidents facing ever-increasing state budget cuts are raising concerns about President Barack Obama’s plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition prices or face losing federal dollars.
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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan
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