Higher Education

NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Trustees of the College Board today announced that David Coleman will become the organization's ninth president and CEO. Coleman succeeds Governor Gaston Caperton who is stepping down after 13 years a Full Article at PR Newswire

May 16, 2012, 10:00 am By CATHERINE RAMPELL If the American dream is doing better than your parents, only about half of recent college graduates think they will achieve it. They are even more pessimistic about the prospects for their peers, according to Full Article at The New York Times

May 16, 2012, 6:40 a.m. The Department of Education goes to court on Wednesday to try to prevent delays in its effort to overhaul the teaching staffs at 24 struggling schools. City officials released legal papers on Tuesday responding to an attempt by th Full Article at The New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Missouri State University (MSU) has selected Blackboard Transact™ in a move away from magnetic stripe student IDs for a contactless credentials, Blackboard Inc. announced today. Based on the Near Field Communicati Full Article at PR Newswire

AtLeast one of the check box should be selected You are following news about Follow the latest news about DISCA ISELIN, N.J. , May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education, the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and t Full Article at PR Newswire

SALT LAKE CITY, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Stevens-Henager College, a leading provider of on-campus and online higher education, today announced 14 new scholarship programs worth $6 million annually. All of the new scholarship programs may be awarded o Full Article at PR Newswire

AUSTIN – Out the window of Mack Brown's office sits the sixth-largest stadium in college football, empty and quiet on a warm spring morning but the center of the Texas universe, packing in 100,000-plus, on game days in the fall. Despite outspending its r Full Article at USA Today

When a leak appeared in Mississippi Valley State's gym roof and warped the floor, basketball practice became impossible just as the 2010-11 season was getting under way. The displaced Delta Devils — who had made the NCAA men's basketball tournament just Full Article at USA Today

On Sunday, The New York Times introduced the series “ Degrees of Debt ,” which examines “the implications of soaring college costs and the indebtedness of students and their families.” Regular readers of The Choice would be highly interested in this arti Full Article at The New York Times

Andrew Spear for The New York Times E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, says that public colleges and universities need to devise a new business model to pay for the costs of education, beyond sticking students with higher tuition and Full Article at The New York Times

ATLANTA, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elaine M. Neely has been appointed Chief Regulatory Excellence Officer for Medtech, a leading post-secondary healthcare education training provider. Former Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Kaplan, Inc. , Neely Full Article at PR Newswire

ST. LOUIS, May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The "King of Rancheras," Vicente Fernandez, unites once again with the "King of Beers" as Budweiser presents his much-anticipated 21-city U.S. tour that kicks off this month. Earlier this year the iconic singer ann Full Article at PR Newswire

Future U is a multipart series on the university of the 21st century. We will be investigating the possible future of the textbook, the technological development of libraries, how tech may change the role of the professor, and the future role of technolo Full Article at Ars Technica

ATLANTA (AP) – Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University's law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off. Law student Anna Idelevich, 22, plays with Hooch, top, a 19-mon Full Article at USA Today

DETROIT – Sean Doerr, like thousands of college graduates this spring, is trapped between a rock and a hard place. Sean Doerr, 22, of Detroit, a photography major at the College for Creative studies, gets ready for graduation ceremony practice on Thursda Full Article at USA Today

Britney Wilson graduated Saturday from Howard University in a flourish of collegiate honors: Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude. But none of them brought quite the same rush of pride as the shiny new handicapped door-opener that awaited her back at the resi Full Article at The Washington Post

ADA, Ohio — Kelsey Griffith graduates on Sunday from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment here to live with her parents. Her mother, who Full Article at The New York Times

Three students from Boston University were killed Saturday and at least five others injured when their minivan flipped in a New Zealand vacation town, according to the Associated Press. A backpack lies on a road after a minivan crashed, near Turangi, New Full Article at The Washington Post

PITTSBURGH, May 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "We are very pleased that the Court has dismissed the claim made by the intervening parties and relators that the design of the Company's Compensation Plan for admissions representatives did not comply with the U. Full Article at PR Newswire