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(09/16/13 2:00am)
A ProPublica analysis of data from the Department of Education indicates that public universities have awarded a declining amount of grant money to students whose families are in the lowest income quartile, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Wednesday. Colleges are increasingly awarding athletic and merit-based scholarships instead, which attract students whose presence can boost their national rankings at the expense of overall student diversity. Colleges have also increasingly sought students with greater financial resources in order to save scholarship money, The Chronicle reported. In the past two decades, four-year state schools have educated fewer low-income students, forcing students to instead attend community colleges or for-profit institutions.
(09/16/13 2:00am)
Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University and Columbia University ranked higher, placing first through fourth in the rankings, respectively. The University of Pennsylvania ranked seventh, tied with Duke University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while Brown University and Cornell University ranked 14th and 16th.
(05/10/13 2:00am)
A paper published by the New America Foundation found that colleges are not awarding financial aid to the neediest students, Bloomberg Businessweek reported. Instead, institutions tend to give merit scholarships, which do not take into account family income. Schools choose to use their financial aid funds strategically and recruit the wealthiest students. The study also revealed that merit aid recipients are not necessarily better students. Roughly 27 percent of freshmen with SAT scores between 700 and 999 receive merit aid, compared to the 19 percent with scores under 700. Lower income families are now experiencing a growing gap between what colleges charge and what families can afford. While some private universities are making efforts to provide low-income students with greater financial aid, the situation for low income students at many schools is worsening.
(05/09/13 2:00am)
In the absence of affirmative action, public universities in California have implemented programs geared toward supporting students of color and lower-income students to increase diversity, The New York Times reported. Since California voters abolished official affirmative action in 1996, institutions including the University of California, Irvine have been pushing to recruit more low-income candidates for admission by providing them with college advising services, which reach out to applicants beginning in middle school. Though the number of students of color at public universities in California initially decreased in the late 1990s, the numbers eventually rebounded. As the Supreme Court begins to hear a case on affirmative action at the University of Texas at Austin, the California public school admission system may be a model for the future.
(05/07/13 2:00am)
"Heavy Doors: A History of Coeducation at Dartmouth," is an annual event organized by Daughters of Dartmouth, but the display did not go up last year. It is not a response to recent campus events, such as the Dimensions show protest or class cancellation, a group member who wished to remain anonymous said in an email.
(04/30/13 2:00am)
A study conducted by Indiana University research analyst Amy Ribera determined that the education level of a child's parent does not serve as a good indicator for how well he or she will perform in college, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. The study found that those whose parents had earned a baccalaureate degree were slightly less likely to engage in deep learning than their classmates whose parents did not finish college. The survey also showed that students who had vocation-oriented majors were less likely to engage in deep learning behaviors than those who majored in the arts or sciences and planned to attend graduate school. The study sampled 9,000 students, who were asked 12 questions each about his or her college learning habits.
(04/29/13 2:00am)
Thirty-four colleges underpaid taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday. Nearly 20 percent of universities also broke chief executive compensation rules for nonprofit institutions. According to an IRS audit, the unnamed colleges avoided nearly $90 million in unpaid additional taxes. These expenses funded perks executive perks, including travel tours, housekeeping services and catering. The report cited the colleges' spending money on benefits indirectly related to their academic missions. Nearly 20 percent of private universities failed to appropriately compare the salaries they awarded to their top officials to peer institutions. These tax problems come amidst concerns that college presidents are overpaid and universities overspend on expenses unrelated to their academic missions, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
(04/10/13 2:00am)
Clemson University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook are among the nine universities piloting technology created by Silicon Valley-based company CourseSmart in an effort to gain insight about students' progress, The New York Times reported. The technology collects data as students read electronic textbooks and then sends that information to professors and textbook authors. While many textbook manufacturers previously released information about how their products are received by a general audience, this is the first time that teachers have gained information about their own students. Such information might flag students who are in danger of failing a course or alert a professor when an entire class is falling behind on the reading. More than 3.5 million students currently use CourseSmart.
(04/10/13 2:00am)
These red cups, part of the Dartmouth Social Cups program, present a new social option for students in the dining hall. If a student chooses to drink out of a red cup as opposed to the typical clear cups, he or she indicates to fellow diners an openness to sitting with strangers.
(03/06/13 4:00am)
Green Team has faced more demand than it has been able to accommodate in recent terms due to understaffing problems, said Aurora Matzkin, special assistant to the president for student health. Green Team's inability to meet requests is unrelated to the College's decision last summer to stop funding the program for unregistered events.
(03/04/13 4:00am)
Dartmouth's Internet currently has a speed of two gigabits per second, and is split between the two service providers. The speed refers to the total amount of data the College can receive at any given time.
(03/01/13 4:00am)
Former University of Pennsylvania admissions officer Nadirah Farah Foley is no longer employed after she mocked applicants' admissions essays on her Facebook page, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported. In late 2012, the Admissions Office was alerted of a series of posts that included parts of applicants' essays as well as jarring commentary. Although details surrounding Foley's departure remain uncertain, her name has been removed from the admissions website. Foley's LinkedIn page also indicates that she left the University at the end of 2012, shortly after the university was made aware of the incident. The case provokes questions about the place of social media in college admissions. While the University does not have a written policy explicitly focusing on admissions confidentiality, the Office of the Provost is establishing policies to address applicant privacy.
(02/28/13 4:00am)
Timothy Geithner '83 will conduct a series of university seminars beginning in early March, Politico reported. The seminars will focus on economic crises prevention and the policies used to approach them, all aiming to help the public understand how the government makes decisions when approaching public policy issues. They will be closed to the public, off the record and done for no fee. Geithner has agreed to conduct seminars at Harvard University, Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and plans to announce additional university stops. The engagements come after Geithner's term as Secretary of the Treasury, an office he left in January.
(02/22/13 4:00am)
Dimensions of Dartmouth, a three-day event designed to give prospective students a feel for student life, is slated to undergo a number of programming changes to focus on intellectual life, including more student research showcases, a new program about the Dartmouth Plan, a student leaders mixer and a new intersectionality program by the Office of Pluralism and Leadership to feature diversity.
(02/05/13 4:00am)
Former resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Thersia Knapik has filed a lawsuit against the hospital, claiming that she was wrongfully terminated for reporting a coworker for ethics violations. Knapik worked in DHMC's plastic surgery department for five years as an intern and later as a resident.
(02/04/13 4:00am)
Opening day sales were better than projected for the store due to a high level of student interest, according to sales associate Claire Yao '16.
(01/31/13 4:00am)
Fewer college freshmen reported spending time partying in 2012 than in any year since 1966, according to The Huffington Post. Last year, 33.4 percent of freshmen reported drinking beer, while beer drinking peaked in 1982 at 73.7 percent, according to the University of California, Los Angeles Cooperative Institutional Research Program's annual survey. Respondents were also asked how much time they spent at parties per week during their senior year of high school, and 37 percent reported that they had spent no time partying at all. These data contradict widespread beliefs that American students spend too much time partying and not enough time studying, according to The Huffington Post. Nearly 80 percent of the respondents characterized themselves as above average in their "drive to achieve."
(01/24/13 4:00am)
In the pharmaceutical advertisements that Woloshin and Schwartz studied, they said they noticed a disconnect between the information presented to patients and the information needed for adequate treatment. The lack of disclosure about a drug's effectiveness is particularly concerning, Schwartz said. Mainstream package inserts and pharmaceutical ads do not incorporate specific information about how likely a drug is to cure an ailment. Pharmaceutical companies provide information that focuses on an advertised drug's superiority to a placebo rather than its effectiveness.
(11/06/12 4:00am)
Dartmouth College has the most attentive and seventh smartest student body in the country, according to a study conducted by Lumos Labs, a cognitive research laboratory. Lumosity, the company's cognitive training site, published a Nov. 1 study that analyzed the cognitive performance of more than 60,000 students at 403 universities nationwide. Data scientist Daniel Sternberg examined gameplay data focused on cognitive speed, attention, flexibility, memory and problem solving. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology finished first overall, while Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology was first in memory, Harvard University performed best at speed of processing and Yale University ranked highest in flexibility.
(10/22/12 2:00am)
Approximately 80 mathematically gifted girls in sixth through 12th grade attended the second-annual Sonia Kovalevsky Math Day at the College as part of a nationwide initiative to encourage young women to take an interest in higher-level mathematics. The event is named in honor of Sonia Kovalevsky, a notable Russian mathematician during the late 1800s.