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Community Colleges: To Thine Own Self Be True
9/16/2009 12:00:00 AM
On July 14 when President Barack Obama spoke to an audience of students, educators, and displaced autoworkers at Macomb Community College on the outskirts of Detroit he pledged a new, $12 billion investment in community colleges. It would be the boldest federal action in decades on behalf of the nation's underappreciated, underfunded system of public two-year institutions. Community colleges play a key role in Obama's ambitious plan to retrain unemployed workers and create an additional 5 million college-degree holders over the next decade, helping the American workforce regain its status as the best educated in the world. While older Americans have more college degrees than their counterparts in any other country, Americans age 25 to 34 rank 14th in the world in college-degree attainment.
Rethinking the Freshman 15
9/15/2009 12:00:00 AM
Haley Hogan, a recent Yale graduate who has suffered from anorexia, got used to seeing nutrition facts displayed at New York chain restaurants when she took a semester off last fall. But when she returned to Yale in the spring, she was shocked to find cards detailing calorie information all over her residential dining hall. "They're very triggering if you're in recovery from an eating disorder," Hogan says of calorie counts. "I felt almost violated that Yale had done this."
Creating the Chinese Google
Rana Foroohar 9/5/2009 12:00:00 AM
Back in 2002, Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing, Asia's most successful entrepreneur, founded the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing to turn out a new kind of Chinese global leader. Cheung Kong has since become the country's top business school, with graduates like Alibaba chairman Jack Ma and CNOOC president Fu Chengyu. Here the school's dean, Xiang Bing, tells NEWSWEEK'S Rana Foroohar why China needs to move beyond entrepreneurship.
Sticking with Success
8/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Last September, two influential congressmen, worried about the size of the largest U.S. university endowments, called on schools to start spending more. They needn't have worried: eight days later, Lehman Brothers collapsed, markets plunged, and within six weeks the endowments of America's top schools lost roughly 25 percent of their value.
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The College Tour Goes High-Tech
Katie Paul 3/28/2008 12:00:00 AM
How big a hall would you need to bring together some 50,000 students and their parents, as well as college admissions officers, guidance counselors and financial aid experts? No room required: the crowd participated in CollegeWeekLive, a virtual two-day college fair that built on a smaller "test" event held last fall.
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Media Matters: Why Britain’s P.M. Is Popular Abroad But Hated At Home

When Gordon Brown went on his second official visit to the United States in mid-April, all three presidential candidates made time to meet him—Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton even took a morning off from their fierce campaigning in Pennsylvania. Yet the British press corps used the occasion to slam the prime minister for his timing, which coincided with—and let him be overshadowed by—Pope Benedict XVI's stateside tour. Likewise, when Brown, at the end of his trip, gave a major address on globalization in Boston that was serious and carefully argued—vintage Brown—the Americans lapped it up, while the British press corps snickered.