Open the Right Doors of Opportunity During College Admission Season
April 14th, 2013By Jane S. Shropshire
Springtime is when anxiety about admission to highly selective colleges peaks along with pollen counts.
Thankfully, it is now morphing into a sense of peace for students with acceptance offers in hand.
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Education reform program lands at UK
March 15th, 2013By Jane S. Shropshire
Imagine every student in this country prepared for life, prepared for citizenship, prepared for a career of success. … Imagining is not enough,” said Gene Wilhoit, at a press conference announcing the new National Center for Innovation in Education at University of Kentucky’s College of Education.
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January 24th, 2013By Jane S. Shropshire
Students limiting their college searches by cost may want to know about the Academic Common Market (ACM), which allows Kentucky residents to pay in-state tuition rates to study in certain programs in other Southeastern states.
Coordinated by the Southern Regional Education Board, the ACM includes programs in states throughout the Southeast with the exception of North Carolina, which is phasing out its participation. Kentucky has participated since the early 1970s, initially for graduate studies only.
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University ‘delisted’ from U.S. News rankings
December 8th, 2012By Jane S. Shropshire
Last month, higher education headlines blared about George Washington University’s inflation of class-rank data for entering freshmen, one factor in U.S. News & World Report’s calculation of college rankings. GWU, which had been ranked 51st nationally and perceived broadly as having been on a multi-year ascent, found itself pulled from this year’s U.S. News rankings altogether.
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