A report on enrollment at institutions of higher educationshows that the number of students enrolled in college, the percentage of students receiving financial aid and graduation rates have all been increasing, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The report, published this week by the U.S. Department of Education, found that the number of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in institutions that receive Title IV federal student aid increased by one million from 2009 to 2010, bringing the total to approximately 22 million. Of the 3.3 million first-time full-time undergraduates in the 2009-10 academic year, 82 percent received some form of aid, and 53 percent borrowed money, The Chronicle reported. At public four-year colleges, the average student paid $16,900 before grants and $10,200 afterward, compared to $32,700 and $16,700 at private, nonprofit four-year colleges, according to The Chronicle.
Employees at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center aretesting a new, portable machine that records high levels of radiation much more quickly than conventional methods, WCAX.com, a Vermont online news source, reported. The device, developed at DHMC's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, scans patients' teeth, which permanently store high levels of radiation, for evidence of exposure. In a situation involving high radiation exposure such as the detonation of a nuclear weapon, exposure levels could be determined almost immediately using the new device. The NCCC aims to attain approval from the Food and Drug Administration for the machines and initiate mass production by August 2016, WCAX.com reported.
Almost a year after Yale University partnered with the National University of Singapore to create Yale-National University of Singapore, faculty members in New Haven have raised concerns about whether Yale's policies of academic freedom and nondiscrimination will be upheld at the new college in Singapore, Inside Higher Education reported on Wednesday. Yale-NUS College is an undergraduate, residential liberal arts college that uses Yale's name, but it offers NUS, rather than Yale, degrees. Before the partnership's creation, the university held a number of "town meetings," but faculty never formally voted on the matter, Inside Higher Ed reported. While a number of professors have voiced concerns that faculty members were not adequately involved in the decision-making process, professors in favor of the Singapore program note that many did play a role and that an official vote would not have been appropriate given the system of conferring degrees at the new school, according to Inside Higher Ed.
