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Obama daughter tours colleges alone or with Mom, not Dad

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is missing out on part of his oldest daughter's life: her college campus tours as she tries to...

Carnegie Mellon tells 800 rejected applicants they're in, then out

Ben Leibowitz called up relatives to tell them he got into Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious graduate computer science program. He even went out to...

Study: College completion gap between rich, poor widens

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation's richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last...

Labor group withdraws UNCF support over Koch gift

WASHINGTON – Lee Saunders, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, has discontinued supplying scholarships to the United Negro College...

Starbucks clears college degree path for workers

NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks is giving its baristas a shot at an online college degree, an unusual benefit in an industry where higher...

Koch Brothers donate $25 million to United Negro College Fund

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Negro College Fund announced a $25 million grant Friday from Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation —...

Trauma warnings move from Internet to Ivory Tower

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It seemed like a modest proposal, or so thought Bailey Loverin, a literature major at the University of California, Santa...

Backers, opponents of Michigan affirmative action ban react to ruling

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decision Tuesday upholding the state's ban on racial preference in college admissions comes as the University of...

High court upholds Mich affirmative action ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan's ban on using race as a factor in college admissions despite one justice's impassioned...

Colleges seek to improve remedial programs

BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels' remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only...

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