Since 1985, the number of patents awarded to American colleges and universities increased almost fivefold.
Since most of you were born, tuition and fees at American colleges have more than doubled.
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Some 30% of American colleges have made the SAT test a rough proxy for IQ optional in the admissions process.
Most French officials speak English and studied in British or American colleges.
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The school is one of the few American colleges that is a household name in China, and many Chinese parents dream of enrolling their children there.
This year's survey (administered by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles) included nearly 350, 000 students at 665 American colleges and universities.
Yet an extensive study found that between the early 1970s and late 1990s American colleges produced more than enough graduates in science, technology, engineering and maths to meet demand.
As many of the best and brightest students in the world are studying at American colleges and universities, we must take this as an opportunity to make a long-term investment in the top talent we are educating.
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The Center's Mike Waller talked to the students about how we fought the far left, including those allied with the Soviet Communists, and applying our campus activist experiences of the 1980s to combating Islamist extremism on American colleges today.
That last figure was supplied by the American Federation of Teachers, and it may be a little low, but it is undeniable that more than half the teaching in American colleges is done by contingent faculty (that is, adjuncts) like Professor X.
The X-Man notes that half of all Americans who enter college never finish, that almost sixty per cent of students who enroll in two-year colleges need developmental (that is, remedial) courses, and that less than thirty per cent of faculty in American colleges are tenure-track.
This project is coordinated by some leading advocates for science and research in the country: the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the Science Coalition, The Task Force on American Innovation, and United for Medical Research, with support from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Chemical Society, and the American Mathematical Society.
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Major General Robert Scales, a retired commandant of the US Army War College, argues that the passage of large numbers of the best and brightest Egyptian officers through American war colleges has suffused the army with American values.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a shortage of 150, 000 doctors by 2025.
The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates a shortage of 90, 000 doctors nationwide by 2021.
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Only 34% of med school faculty members are female, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
According to figures from the Association of American Medical Colleges, 86% of medical school graduates had school-related debt in 2012.
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Only 37% of full-time faculty members at accredited med schools are female, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
Tuition and fees at public medical schools, after all, have shot up 133 percent since 1990, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Medical school admissions are down by 6% at a time when the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a shortage of 160, 000 by 2025.
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All told, the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts the U.S. will face a shortage of 62, 900 doctors by 2015 and as many as 140, 000 by 2025.
The Association of American Medical Colleges reported last November that medical-loss ratios of for-profit HMOs paying a flat fee to doctors for treatment averaged only 70% of their premium revenue.
"There will be real physician shortages if we don't do more to lift the residency cap, " said Dr. Atul Grover, the Association of American Medical Colleges' chief advocacy officer, in a statement.
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At the current expansion rate, graduates from U.S. medical and osteopathic schools alone will exceed the number of expected residencies by the end of the decade, the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts.
In the study, the researchers sent out anonymous surveys to medical school deans or their representatives at each institution in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) -- a total of 130 schools.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges has warned that the supply of new doctors can't keep pace, due to limits on federal funding for medical residency programs, and estimates that the U.S. will face a shortage of more than 90, 000 physicians by 2020, particularly in primary care and in rural areas.
In addition, each year more than 30, 000 African students study in American schools, colleges and universities, while more than 10, 000 American students study in schools across Africa.
So I shared that story with a group of educators, and I am so pleased to share the good news today that the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education has partnered with the Military Child Education Coalition to promote training for future teachers.
The American Association of Medical Colleges said it foresees a shortage of 90, 000 physicians within 10 years.
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