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<title>Surge in Foreign Students May Be Crowding Americans Out of Elite Colleges (Washington Post)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A major increase in international enrollment in recent years has intensified the competition for entry to America's top private colleges and universities, as ever-growing numbers of applicants angle for the limited supply of seats.  That tension is particularly evident in the eight prestigious Ivy League schools: Federal data shows that their freshman classes grew slightly from 2004 to 2014 -- 5 percent -- while the number of incoming foreign students rose 46 percent. At the same time, applications to the schools shot up 88 percent.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Ending Extracurricular Privilege (The Atlantic)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One day in the summer of 2015, I sat in a small conference room in Tribeca, watching the reality show Dance Moms with Richard Weissbourd, a renowned Harvard psychologist. To Weissbourd, shows like Dance Moms are a symptom of a broader societal malaise. It's an example of how ego-driven society, and by extension, teenagers, have become, thanks in part to the pressures placed on them by parents and colleges. The Harvard initiative Weissbourd co-directs--called "Making Caring Common"--is aimed at changing media messages and school policies in order to promote concern for others among youth.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Why This Small College in Iowa Is Going Global (Washington Post)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Grinnell College had a problem last spring. Enrollment for the incoming class of 2020 was falling well short of the target of 440 freshmen, and the college had exhausted its wait list of domestic applicants.  So the esteemed liberal arts school in Iowa dipped into its foreign wait list.  Grinnell wound up with a class of 414, still shy of the school's goal. Twenty-three percent of Grinnell's freshmen are international, up from 18 percent in 2014 and 11 percent in 2004.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Yale Set For Biggest Expansion in 40 Years  (Washington Post)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The bell tower looming over a bustling seven-acre construction site here on Prospect Street signals a major development for Yale University: the imminent debut of its first new residential colleges in a half-century.  When Franklin and Murray colleges open in August, they will raise the capacity of incoming classes 15 percent, to about 1,550 seats a year. That will enable Yale's undergraduate enrollment to grow from about 5,400 now to 6,200 over the next four years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>The Plague of Early Decision - Commentary (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Columnist Frank Bruni writes:  As the moment of judgment neared, they barely slept, convinced that their very futures were on the line. Dread consumed them. Panic overwhelmed them.  I don't mean Americans awaiting the Electoral College's validation of Donald Trump.  I mean students (and their parents) awaiting actual colleges' verdicts on early-decision and early-action applications.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Donald Trump Attack On Education Is Imminent - Commentary (WBUR Radio, Boston, MA)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance, risk management and capital markets at Boston University Questrom School of Business and is a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, writes:  The sustained greatness of America -- its economic and social fabric -- is made stronger when the dreams of its citizens are met. One hopes Mr. Trump's policy decisions show a greater understanding of the vital role our nation's colleges and universities play in fulfilling this promise.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Antioch College Cuts Costs, Jobs (Yellow Spring News, OH)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time since reopening to students in 2011, Antioch College is reducing its budget, a move college leaders say is necessary to bring expenses in line with revenues that have grown more slowly than expected.  Antioch College President Tom Manley announced a series of spending cuts that will save the college about $1 million annually. These cuts include salary reductions for 23 college employees and the elimination of five staff positions.  The budget measures are part of an 18-month effort to lower the college's spending.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Changes Coming to NAICU Headline News Service Today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of an ongoing update and relaunch of our organization's website and other electronic resources, NAICU is revamping its Headline News Service effective today, Thursday, Dec. 22.  Beginning in the New Year, NAICU's news service will become a members-only resource.  However, non-members are invited to visit our website for the latest in higher education news.  Thank you for your support of NAICU and private, nonprofit higher education.  
If you have any questions, you can email us at webmaster@naicu.edu&#65279;.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>To Save Themselves, Small Colleges Offer Lifeline to Their Hometowns (Wall Street Journal)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Phillip and Stephanie Mastin have lived all of their 40-plus years in this small manufacturing town set amid farmers' fields. Neither, though, had ever attended a lecture or a basketball game at the private college near their home. But last spring, the couple sat inside one of Albion College's red brick buildings as their 18-year-old son collected a $45,000-a-year scholarship from the school. The free ride, one of 13 given to local students in the past two years, is part of a change playing out at small, liberal arts colleges in beaten-down towns across the country. As they struggle with falling enrollments and difficult finances, they are realizing how their own futures are intertwined with the broader community.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>What Is In and What Is Out for Colleges as Trump Takes Office (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you're a college leader who feels micromanaged by federal regulations, a university trustee who thinks that the U.S. Department of Education has been overly intrusive in overseeing colleges' handling of sexual-assault and discrimination cases, or a would-be education provider that is not a traditionally accredited college, you may well like some of the approaches of the coming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.  At least that's how some of the outlines of the new political landscape for higher education appear to be taking shape, based on recent Chronicle interviews with more than two dozen college leaders, policy advocates, and current state and federal government officials.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>A Generational Schism Over Gay Rights Appears at Evangelical Colleges (Chronicle of Higher Education)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Evangelical Christians, who proved a powerful voting bloc for Donald Trump, are often viewed as a monolithic group. But a generational rift is appearing on Christian college campuses and among student groups, as students are diverging from professors and administrators on one prominent issue: gay rights.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Is Distance Ed Rule DOA? (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Education, with a month to go until the transition of power, has finalized a rule that clarifies how colleges become authorized to offer online programs to students in other states -- an effort in the works since the first years of the Obama administration. But the rule is by all indications dead on arrival.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Presidents Sign Climate Change Letter to Trump (Inside Higher Ed)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The leaders of nearly 200 colleges and universities have signed an open letter calling on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and members of Congress to support climate research, investment in a low-carbon economy and the Paris Agreement on climate change.The letter was developed by colleges, universities and the Boston-based nonprofit Second Nature.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>More Older Americans Caught in Student Debt Crisis (St. Louis Public Radio, KWMU)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An increasing number of older Americans are having problems with student loan debt -- so much so that their Social Security checks are being reduced because the federal government is withholding loan repayments. And those reductions result in Social Security recipients falling below the poverty line, according to findings of a Government Accountability Office report sought by Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>To Boost the Economy, Help Students First � Presidential Opinion (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sheila C. Bair, president, Washington College (MD), writes: Donald J. Trump has made bold and provocative campaign promises on taxes, trade, immigration and infrastructure. These pledges are all in service of bolstering our economic future. While we hope these initiatives will help our economic prospects, there is one important measure missing from the debate. And it could have an even more immediate and direct impact on economic growth: student debt relief. Student debt relief is smart economics and smart politics for the new administration.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Marian University Lowers Tuition Costs for Next Year (WLUK-TV FOX 11, Green Bay, WI)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It's not something you expect on a college campus.Marian University in Fond du Lac says it has lowered tuition for next year. The college board of trustees approved a reduction of $910 in the annual tuition rate for full-time undergraduate students for the 2017-18 academic year.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Columbia College Offers Discounted Tuition to Uber Drivers (St. Louis Business Journal)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Columbia College, a private college with its main campus in Columbia, Missouri, is partnering with Uber to offer discounted tuition to students who drive for the ride-hailing company.  Students who drive at least one trip a month for Uber can get a 15 percent discount on tuition for all undergraduate or graduate courses, according to the school's website.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Yellen Tells College Graduates that Value of a Degree Is Rising (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate among Americans with college degrees was just 2.3 percent in November, a number that suggests employers are now competing for well-educated workers. Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, went to the University of Baltimore on Monday to congratulate graduates on joining that fortunate group.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Columbia Challenges Vote by Graduate Students to Unionize (New York Times)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The battle over whether graduate students at universities can unionize entered a new phase on Friday, when Columbia University filed a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board over the recent vote by its graduate assistants to unionize. Columbia said that tactics like voter coercion may have tipped the balance in favor of the union and that the N.L.R.B. should invalidate the vote.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Devos Heads into Confirmation with a Megadonor Advantage (Politico)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Billionaire Betsy DeVos has been unabashed about using her wealth to advance her own agenda. "We expect a return on our investment," she once wrote about her family's massive political contributions.  After giving millions of dollars to politicians over the past two decades, she now heads into her Senate confirmation hearing for education secretary with a clear advantage: DeVos and her husband, Dick, have donated to the campaigns of 17 senators who will consider her nomination -- four of whom sit on the Senate education committee that oversees the process.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2016 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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