She and my father met at Kentucky State College, which was one of the HBCUs - the historically all-black colleges and universities - back in the' 60s.
And this has caused a lot of them - that is colleges and universities - to engage in the kind of gaming exercise to prop up their ratings under the US News and World Report ratings system.
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As more schools embraced online education, smaller, less well-known colleges and for-profit universities drove further innovation in the online education space.
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The authors of the book, Bert Sperling and Peter Sander , collected the number of two- and four-year colleges and the number of universities with selective admissions from the National Center for Education Statistics and Princeton Review, respectively.
In several conference calls with our executive committee in December and January, we outlined our financial models and the new realities for most private colleges and universities--declining numbers of students paying full tuition, an increasing discount rate and stiffer competition from public universities.
According to the Department of Education, there are currently 2, 235 four year not-for-profit colleges and universities and 1, 067 two-year colleges in the United States.
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Meantime, at four-year public colleges and universities, tuition and fees for in-state students rose 4.8% in the 2012-13 academic year, the smallest increase since 2000-01, according to the College Board.
The truth is, we have everything we need to compete: bold entrepreneurs, bright new ideas, and world-class colleges and universities.
However, Labour has also discouraged competition between further-education colleges and taken powers to stop universities from charging top-up fees.
And we've met with colleges and universities -- the inflation rate on college has actually gone up faster than health care, which is pretty hard to do.
And the recovery plan has helped close state budget shortfalls -- which put enormous pressure on public universities and community colleges -- at the same time making historic investments in school libraries and classrooms and facilities all across America.
Between 2005 and 2007, data was collected from 24 four-year institutions, including state universities and liberal-arts colleges.
The legislature has found and hereby declares that the availability of legitimate courses and programs leading to academic degrees offered by responsible private not-for-profit and for-profit institutions of postsecondary education and the existence of legitimate private colleges and universities are in the best interests of the people of this state.
And even in the best of times, they receive far less funding than four-year colleges and universities.
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Many of my peers at my public high school were talented and had the grades and test scores to attend four-year universities and colleges, but lacked the guidance or resources to navigate the admissions process.
So what we're saying to states, colleges and universities -- if you can't stop tuition from going up, then funding you get from taxpayers will go down.
Advocates of for-profit schools, like Harris Miller of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, say that students at for-profits tend to carry higher debt loads because many come from at-risk and low-income backgrounds.
Support STEM and entrepreneurship education in your K-12 system and ensure colleges and universities have robust lifelong learning strategies that reach and serve all parts of the local community.
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To support and deliver upon their missions, colleges and universities, like all non-profits and for-profits, have business models.
Our list reflects what freshmen entering any of these traditional, four-year colleges and universities can expect to be billed for tuition, fees, room and board.
Because it makes no sense to teach international students at our top-notch colleges and universities only to send them home to compete against us rather than grow with us.
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Parents and student should also be aware that colleges and universities may request information from the non-custodial parent to determine eligibility for institutionally-funded forms of financial aid.
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They are held in community centers, colleges and universities, senior-citizen centers and many gyms.
Some credit the rise of jazz-studies programs in colleges and universities for creating a new breed of jazz musician.
Perhaps it is time for the federal government to remove tax exempt status for donations to the non-academic activities of colleges and universities.
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This is a promising example of outreach work, but what about the impact of MOOCs on traditional colleges and universities and their on-campus students?
"I have made it clear that I want to ensure more funding reaches the education front line - our schools, colleges and universities, " he said.
It will also transform Japan's 99 state-run universities and colleges into independent agencies, freeing them to accept research contracts from industry and use the money as they see fit.
The mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, Mayor Angel Taveras, made national headlines last week when details emerged about his plan to tax nine tax-exempt hospitals, colleges and universities in an effort to raise revenue.
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To help with the math, colleges and universities participating in federal student-aid programs are now required to have a net-price calculator on their websites.
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