Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
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The glass is half empty…
…and the other half is filled with sour milk. The Conference Board’s latest consumer confidence ratings were released Tuesday, and the future for many Americans is far from bright.
The index remained relatively flat in March at 26, up from 25.3 in February. (In 1985, the rating was 100.) The Present Situation Index declined to 21.5 [...] -
Loyola gets a nod for its tech offerings
PC Magazine just released its list of the “Top Wired Colleges” for 2008, and a local name makes an appearance: Loyola College in Maryland. The school - soon to be re-christened Loyola University Maryland - is number 12 overall, in contrast to 2006, when it wasn’t even ranked.
Done in connection with the Princeton Review, the list identifies [...] -
Making the grade
The U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 college rankings are out, and Maryland schools performed pretty well.
Hopkins is 15th overall among national universities — no great surprise there. The University of Maryland at College Park came in at No. 53.
Maryland’s liberal arts colleges should be proud. In the Liberal Arts Rankings, we had: the U.S. [...] -
Maryland’s college savings plan ranks high
Maryland is in the top tier on this report card.
For the second year in a row, Maryland’s College Investment Plan is rated as a top choice by Morningstar Inc. in its report on the best - and worst - college savings plans.
Our state’s plan, managed by T. Rowe Price, earned its top position due to [...] -
Video: JHU President Brody on retirement
You may have seen Karen Buckelew’s report this morning on President Bill Brody’s impending (well, Dec. 31) retirement from Johns Hopkins University.
Watch below as Brody talks about his experiences with the JHU faculty, student body and connecting with the community during his twelve years as president.
Video shot by Daily Record photographer Max Franz.
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Corporate support for high school curriculums
Through free lesson plans and glossy handouts, Deloitte LLP urges classrooms full of high school students to “consider a career you may never have imagined: working as a professional auditor.”
They’re right about the imagination part.
A story in today’s Wall Street Journal highlights how Deloitte, Lockheed Martin and other corporations are lending a helping hand to [...] -
Villa Julie: What’s in a name?
In another of a series of changes at Villa Julie College, Shelton Rhodes Ph.D. would be the new business school’s first-ever dean.
The move comes as school officials are also brainstorming on what to re-name the 60-year old college, which will be re-christened as a university.
According to a press release from the school, a total of [...] -
Baltimore students to get cash for test score improvements
We had a lot of interest in recent news of a cash reward offered to HoCo high schoolers who “snitched” on the perpetrators of a food fight.
If you felt that a cash bribe for information was iffy, this might go entirely over the line in your estimation: students in Baltimore high schools will soon get [...] -
St. John’s College strives to attract minority students
WaPo has an interesting front-page profile today of Annapolis’s St. John’s College and its struggle to attract and enroll minority students. Its goal is shared by many academic institutions, including the University System of Maryland.
Only 35 of St. John’s 489 students are minorities - just over seven percent of the student body.
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University presidents are doing alright
Tuition isn’t the only dollar figure climbing at universities across the country.
According to a new survey published by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the salaries for college presidents are going up, with 12 university presidents earning at least $1 million for the 2005-2006 school year.
Among the 12 was Maryland’s own William Brody of the Johns [...]