Chinese authorities placed 25 University of Montreal students and a professor under a seven-day quarantine on Monday in an effort to prevent the spread of swine flu in China, CBC News reported. The Canadian group was immediately quarantined after its arrival in Changchun for a language-study program sponsored by the university. Canada has 85 confirmed cases of swine flu, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The group, which is quarantined in a hotel, has been given Internet access, food and daily medical examinations by health officials, David Ownby, the director of the East Asian studies department at the university, told The Chronicle. Last week, two U.S. citizens were held in a hotel in Beijing, and last weekend more than 70 Mexican citizens were quarantined across mainland China, according to The Chronicle.
Princeton University has declined to participate in the Department of Veterans' Affairs' Yellow Ribbon Program, in which the department partners with institutions of higher education to help fund tuition for veterans, The Daily Princetonian reported. The program funds tuition costs exceeding "the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate for veterans," with the participating institution and the V.A. splitting the cost, according to the department's web site. Princeton will not participate because it already meets the full financial needs of all undergraduates, Princeton spokeswoman Casundra Cliatt told The Princetonian. Dartmouth and Columbia University are the only two Ivy League institution with definite plans to participate in the program, while Brown University and Harvard University have expressed interest, according to Inside Higher Education. College President James Wright helped create the program as part of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008.
To prevent the closure of the debt-ridden College of Sante Fe, the city of Sante Fe will purchase the liberal arts institution with financial assistance from the state of New Mexico, Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., said in a Friday press release. The non-profit organization Laureate Education, Inc., will operate the campus under a lease. With more $30 million in debt, the college of 672 students had planned to close by May 22, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The purchase follows the recommendation of the Governor's College of Sante Fe Task Force, which included CSF students and staff members, legislators and officials from other New Mexico universities, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported.
