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An Effort to Simplify Financial Aid Filing
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CreditMinh Uong/The New York Times Tech Fix
Off to College? Maybe These Devices Should Go Along
From computers to coffee makers, choosing the right devices for students can be tough. Here’s a guide to make back-to-school shopping a little easier.
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CreditWhitney Curtis for The New York Times M.I.T., N.Y.U. and Yale Are Sued Over Retirement Plan Fees
Employees contend that each university failed to monitor, and replace, expensive, poor-performing investment options in their retirement plans.
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CreditDrew Angerer/Getty Images Facebook Helps Develop Software That Puts Students in Charge of Their Lesson Plans
In collaboration with a charter school network, Facebook has developed a student-directed learning platform aimed at public schools.
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CreditTrina Knudsen The Innovation Campus: Building Better Ideas
Can architecture spur creativity? Universities are investing in big, high-tech buildings in the hope of evoking big, high-tech thinking.
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CreditKatherine Taylor for The New York Times Are Final Clubs Too Exclusive for Harvard?
Secretive, selective ... sexist? The college is pushing its elite all-male (and all-female) organizations to change. Here’s a peek inside.
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CreditGreg Kahn for The New York Times Think Tank Scholar or Corporate Consultant? It Depends on the Day
Acting as independent arbiters to shape government policy, many researchers also have corporate roles that are sometimes undisclosed.
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CreditLM Otero/Associated Press Ahmed Mohamed, Boy Handcuffed for Making Clock, Is Suing
The Muslim teenager from Dallas whose homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb, says that he received death threats and that his civil rights were violated.
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CreditJames Yang Leftover Meal Plan Swipes: No Waste Here
Dining hall policies can be costly and confusing, and mandatory meal plans wasteful. Students take them on.
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CreditJames Yang How Much Does Living Off-Campus Cost? Who Knows?
College estimates of cost-of-living expenses are often inaccurate, leading some students to borrow too much, or not enough.
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CreditJason Brandon How to Give a Better Speech: Talk to a Dog
Nervous business students at American University give their presentations to pooches.
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CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times Wasting Time on the Internet? Not Really
The poet and professor Kenneth Goldsmith talks about the magic of spending time together online.
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CreditCharlie Mahoney for The New York Times Students and the Middle East Conflict
Tufts University clerics try to put Palestinian supporters and Friends of Israel in the same room. Who shows up?
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New York City’s Medical Schools Will Stop Using Unclaimed Bodies
It was also announced that a group representing the state’s 16 medical schools was withdrawing its opposition to a bill that would end the educational use of bodies with no known survivors.
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CreditJohn Harrington Lightening the Load of Student Loan Debt
Students who educate themselves so they may educate others should not have to graduate with heavy debt.
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CreditTony Rinaldo Making the Case for More Than Just STEM
The writer says the humanities encourage schoolchildren to solve problems creatively, a skill not fostered solely through science and technology.
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CreditJohn Seyfried Higher Education at a Crossroads
Much like American educators of the 1960s, those of today must ask themselves how they can best serve students who face an array of challenges.
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CreditYale Center for Emotional Intelligence Today’s Students May Be Emotionally Unprepared
College students are facing more stress than their parents did, and the resultant anxiety and depression are worrisome to educators and policy makers.
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CreditEileen Molony Reforming Rape Policies on Campus
Universities’ response to sexual assault demands a focus on their core mission: providing education in a way that does not discriminate based on sex.
