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Broad, Molly Corbett – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
The topic of higher-education financing--particularly as it relates to the price of college and access for low-income and middle-income students--has been front-and-center with policy makers and opinion leaders and will undoubtedly remain so with the Obama administration and Congress. Recent discussion has focused on the role of university…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, Low Income Groups, Endowment Funds
Fischer, Karin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
A number of Iraqi-American academics, meeting this month for a conference on how to rebuild Iraq's battered higher-education system, said the Iraqi government's plan to send thousands of students abroad annually would lead to a "brain drain" of a new generation of the nation's top talent. Prime Minister Nuri al-Malaki has proposed…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Technical Assistance
Gravois, John – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Because of lofty but imprecise instructions, the Ph.D. dissertation is a decidedly uneven genre. Barbara E. Lovitts, a higher-education researcher who has studied doctoral attrition rates extensively, set out to bring academe's discussion of the dissertation into the age of feedback. She conducted focus groups with professors in 10 disciplines at…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Research Universities, Focus Groups, Doctoral Programs