For the seventh year in a row, National University has surpassed nationwide benchmarks measuring the level of academic challenge at four-year colleges and universities, according to data from the ninth annual report of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) entitled “Promoting Engagement for All Students: The Imperative to Look Within.” The survey results were released on November 10, 2008.
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U.S. science and engineering students emerge from graduate school exquisitely trained to carry out research. Yet when it comes to the other major activity they'll engage in as professors – teaching – they're usually left to their own devices.
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A new Master's Programme in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Helsinki will take students to other Nordic countries and to the Mediterranean area discovering the religious roots of Europe.
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Children of immigrants who enter school with low math and reading skills have a better chance of catching up with their peers if they attend a school with high-performing students, well-supported teachers and services to families of English as a second language (ESL) children, according to a new study.
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More high academic achievers with top-tier grades and highly competitive SAT scores are choosing the colleges of The City University of New York.
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Investor David Booth, GSB'71, built his investment firm, Dimensional Fund Advisors, on the principles he learned from Prof. Eugene Fama at the Graduate School of Business. With Fama and other University of Chicago faculty on his board, the firm became a national success.
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Why are the number of students studying soil science as a major declining across the United States?
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People who write essays will eventually go out of topic to write about. However, the clients who are in need of plagiarism-free articles will never understand this. Hence the writer must help himself overcome this difficulty.
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T. Boone Pickens, the noted oil and gas industry leader and philanthropist, said today he has contributed an additional $63 million to Oklahoma State University for the completion of the university’s football stadium and its west end zone.
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North Carolina State University (NC State) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced plans to provide every student in North Carolina access to advanced educational resources through NC State's Virtual Computing Lab (VCL), a cloud computing-based technology.
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Successful democracies depend on an informed, thoughtful, and engaged electorate. However, social scientific research shows the American electorate to be poorly informed and often disengaged.
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Collegeboard unveils the October 2008 SAT results on its website. Most scores results are now available for the October SAT Reasoning Test and SAT Subject Tests.
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