College Inc. Archive: Privates
Randolph-Macon offers 'degree guarantee'
Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., today announced a Four-Year Degree Guarantee: Students who follow a few institutional policies are promised a degree in four years, or else the college will waive tuition until the student has finished. With the guarantee,...
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Daniel de Vise
| February 22, 2011; 5:35 PM ET |
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Harvard nets 35,000 applications
Several top universities are reporting another year of record applications, perpetuating the industry trend of application inflation and striking fear in the hearts of worthy high school seniors everywhere. Harvard received nearly 35,000 applications, a 15 percent increase over last...
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Daniel de Vise
| January 20, 2011; 11:32 AM ET |
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Independent colleges launch 2020 graduation push
Two organizations of independent colleges unveiled a new Web site Thursday that brings together hundreds of existing or proposed initiatives at member colleges toward meeting President Obama's goal of regaining the lead in college completion by 2020. Building Blocks to...
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Daniel de Vise
| September 24, 2010; 2:44 PM ET |
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Financial aid rising faster than tuition
An annual survey of independent colleges, released Tuesday, finds that students may pay a little less to attend college this fall, even as colleges charge more. Student aid spending will rise by 7 percent in the coming academic year, according...
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Daniel de Vise
| June 29, 2010; 12:41 PM ET |
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Access, Admissions, Aid, Finance, Liberal Arts, Privates, Research
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Md. fund gives tax dollars to private colleges
A lone Maryland senator is campaigning against a little-known state aid program that dispenses cash to private colleges, the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The Joseph A. Sellinger State Aid Program was launched in 1973 to preserve "a diversity of...
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Daniel de Vise
| June 8, 2010; 9:41 AM ET |
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'Value' in higher education
An article I wrote for Monday's paper posits St. Mary's College of Maryland as one of the great values in higher education. Lists of "top values" in academia are wildly popular, perhaps second only to rankings of colleges in overall...
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Daniel de Vise
| June 1, 2010; 10:04 AM ET |
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Access, Admissions, Aid, Finance, Liberal Arts, Privates, Publics, Rankings
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best value colleges, st. mary's college maryland, top values higher education
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