East Asian theme house to turn to ed focus Elizabeth Rosen May 5, 2010 7 Comments Residential Education cited the School of Education's new minor degree offering as evidence of a growing interest in education among undergraduates. Read More »
At Stanford, Gates points “bright minds” toward health, education An Le Nguyen April 20, 2010 0 Comments Standing before a packed Memorial Auditorium on Monday, Bill Gates asked, “Are the brightest minds working on the most important problems?” Despite a number of significant breakthroughs over the... Read More »
Author discusses rise of American research universities Chris Hart January 21, 2010 0 Comments Jonathan R. Cole described the motivating goal of his new book "The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National Role, Why It Must Be Protected" last night to a large... Read More »
Hoxby: increasingly selective colleges are the exception Jane LePham January 13, 2010 1 Comment Hoxby calls this misconception -- the perceived increase in competition -- a consequence of people extrapolating from the experiences and acceptance rates of a small number of colleges, particularly... Read More »
Challenges abound for schools-over-prisons proposal Caroline Chen January 13, 2010 2 Comments Stanford professors say an amendment to the California constitution proposed by Governor Schwarzenegger that would require the state to invest more money in its public universities than its prisons... Read More »