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Colleges face enrollment shortfalls, offer discounts: report
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Many leading U.S. colleges and universities face a shortfall in enrollment for fall classes and will offer price discounts as they compete for students in an ever expanding higher education market, according to Forbes. The magazine...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Arizona State University, Teaching and Learning, New York City, The Washington Post
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Random testing can send students a harmful message
There is no place for drugs in school, and Lake Highland Preparatory, as a private school, has every legal right to subject its students to random drug testing. Although courts have held that random drug testing in public schools violates the Fourth...
Tags: Social Media, Separation of Church and State, Recreational Substance Use, Laws, Students
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The freedom to create
The Salem NewsIf ever an artist was aptly christened, it is Norman LaLiberte, whose surname can be translated as "freedom," a principle he exercises throughout his work. There is freedom in his vivid use of color, in his adaptation of sources from the range of art...Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Arts
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A Bronzeville charter school makes its mark in robotics
If their robot was ever going to fling Frisbees well enough to win a world championship, the students at Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academy had work to do. Joe Michaelis, head coach of the Bronzeville school's robotics team, ran through the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chicago Charter Schools, Technology, Charter Schools
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Taking the less-known route
If you can't get in — or can't afford — a top business school, is an MBA from a lesser-known school worth it? The answer depends largely on the student. Those gunning for the top of the organizational chart, and without the networking...
Tags: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Chicago Mortgages, Manufacturing and Engineering, Northern Illinois University, University of Chicago
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Getting an MBA: Your business. Your decision.
Chicago TribuneAdmissions consultant Andrea Sparrey uses two numbers to startle prospective business school applicants. She tells them the average price of a home in the United States in 2010 was $273,000. And then she tells them the average price of an MBA from a...Tags: Melissa Harris, Northern Illinois University, Services and Shopping, University of Chicago, Finance
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Enrollment numbers force schools to adjust
MBA enrollment numbers generally have remained flat over the last few years, but Chicago business schools insist their programs aren't suffering. Instead, they're diversifying — offering prospective students more options. Take the University of...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Education, Students, Loyola University Chicago
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Culture clash: New history of Chicago taps into our malaise
Thomas Dyja looked at me with abject horror, then humor, then, as his face crumbled in defeat, resignation. A face that said, "See? This is why I wrote a 412-page cultural history of Chicago at midcentury that — as much as it pulls together...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Artists, Upper West Side, Willis Tower, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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For homebuyers and sellers, it's all about compromising
Is this the year to sell your home? Is it time to buy? National headlines are proclaiming a housing market recovery. The inventory of homes available for sale is down dramatically, and as a result, market time has dropped and that is breeding local...
Tags: Pat Quinn, Illinois Governor, Real Estate, Services and Shopping, Homes
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Chicago-area home sales spike, prices edge up in February
Sales of existing homes in the Chicago area last month rose dramatically from their year-ago pace. Prices rose too but at a much smaller rate. February home sales in the nine-county Chicago area totaled 5,935, a 20.2 percent increase from the same month...
Tags: Real Estate, Services and Shopping, Homes, Real Estate Sales, National Association of Realtors
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Winnetka science teacher wins honor
When Winnetka teacher John Pappas was in college, his sights were set on becoming a dentist. But after several of the science students Pappas was tutoring at Illinois Institute of Technology told him he was a natural-born teacher, he started thinking...
Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest, Science and Technology
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Harris: Design for developing nations developing at IIT
Chicago architect Ann Clark is designing a boarding school that will sit in a saddle-shaped field of mostly beans in Grand-Bois, Haiti. Among the challenges: One side of the field slopes more than 25 degrees, and getting there is rougher than white-...
Tags: Science and Technology, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Arts and Culture, Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Natural Disasters
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