Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice

"Several recent studies, at Ohio State and elsewhere, have found that having a roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice, diversify friendships and even boost black students’ academic performance. But, the research found, such relationships are more stressful and more likely to break up than same-race pairings."

Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice

The statistics that colleges hate to share

"Truth is, many colleges do a poor job at graduating well-educated students. A recent study by the American Enterprise Institute found that on average four-year colleges graduate fewer than 60% of their students with six years. And there were wide differences among all categories of schools; even for the most competitive colleges, average graduation rates differed by 13 percentage points. (To find out the graduation rates for many four year colleges, go to collegeresults.org.) Other studies have found that good students who attended less prestigious colleges ended up earning the same as those who went to brand-name schools."

The statistics that colleges hate to share

Obama Plans New Funds for Colleges

"President Obama plans to head to hard-hit Michigan on Tuesday afternoon to announce a $12 billion infusion for the nation’s community college system, part of his efforts to ease the considerable pain of the still-sagging economy.

"In a conference call with reporters Monday, education officials said $2.5 billion of the new funds would go toward new community college facilities, with the rest going to an assortment of grants designed to boost graduation rates and encourage the teaching of skills that will better prepare students for jobs in a changing economy that is increasingly demanding a more highly educated workforce."

Obama Plans New Funds for Colleges

Obama Student Loan Plan Wins Support in House

"The chairman of the House Education Committee has dismissed a last-ditch plea from the private student loan industry and is throwing his support behind President Obama’s plan to end the role of private banks in the federal education lending systems.

"Mr. Obama’s plan remains deeply contentious in Congress, and still faces strong opposition from private banks that for decades have earned big profits for handling federal student loans.

"But after mulling the issue for months, Representative George Miller, the California Democrat who is chairman of the Education Committee, now plans to introduce legislation next week that would rely on direct government lending to replace the federally subsidized loans made by private banks. Administration officials who have reviewed drafts of the legislation said that it substantially adopts Mr. Obama’s proposal."

Obama Student Loan Plan Wins Support in House

University of California Makes Cuts After Reduction in State Financing

The University of California will use a combination of furloughs, deferred hiring and cuts in academic programs to make up for an $813 million reduction in state financing, its president, Mark G. Yudof, said Friday.

Mr. Yudof said the actions amounted to a major retrenchment for the university, which has long been regarded as the nation’s leading public university.

“The impact of this cut is devastating,” Mr. Yudof said at a press briefing. “There is no way that we are going to be able to look every student in the eye and say, ‘Tomorrow, the University of California will be just the way it was yesterday.’”

University of California Makes Cuts After Reduction in State Financing

Bills giving Legislature control of UC shelved

"A controversial move to give state lawmakers direct authority for the first time over the University of California has been quietly shelved by the Legislature's Democratic leaders and appears to be all but dead.

"'I just don't think it's a good idea,' said Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg, a UC alumnus and the most powerful Democrat in a Legislature controlled by Democrats. 'The state government has enough trouble, enough challenge managing what we are required now to manage.'"

Bills giving Legislature control of UC shelved

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