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Students attending Hartwick College in New York may now be able to save over $40,000 on their education by enrolling in a new three- year college degree program, according to a recent news release from the college (“Hartwick College Announces Three-Year Bachelor’s Degree,” Feb. 24, 2009). The new initiative will reduce ...

The Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act, a bill that supports study abroad reforms, and is one of 35 bills that compose Sen. Harry Reid’s Advancing America’s Priorities Act, has stalled in the Senate, according to an article in Inside Higher Education (“Senate Strands Study Abroad Bill,” July 29, 2008). Supporters of the study abroad ...

Students who want to study American Sign Language — the fourth most commonly taught language other than English at American colleges and universities — have limited, but growing, options to enroll in sign language programs abroad, according to an article in Inside Higher Ed (“Studying (Sign) Languages Abroad,” May 5, 2008). “Part of this ...

South Korea has some 103,000 students studying at American colleges and universities, outnumbered only by students from India and China, nations which have more than 20 times the population of South Korea, writes Sam Dillon of The New York Times (“Elite Korean Schools, Forging Ivy League Skills,” April 27, 2008).“Going to U.S. universities has ...

Cornell University’s medical school in Qatar graduated its inaugural class on May 8, marking the first time a U.S.-based medical school has awarded degrees outside the United States.The 15 graduates of the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar will participate in a second commencement ceremony later this month in New York’s Carnegie Hall, along ...

Recently, Harvard University alumnus David Rockefeller, announced that he will be giving his alma mater the single largest gift from a former student ever, writes Stephanie Strom of The New York Times, (“Rockefeller Gives Harvard $100 Million,” April 25, 2008).The $100 million gift will be added to the school’s $35 million endowment, the largest ...

How much college students are required to pay for their study-abroad programs could hang in the balance of a recent lawsuit brought by a father against his daughter’s school. The suit, reported by Karin Fischer in The Chronicle of Higher Education, challenges Wheaton College’s policy of charging its overseas students regular tuition even if ...

College study abroad programs have witnessed almost 150 percent growth over the past decade, sending more than 200,000 college students to universities all over the world, according to an article by Diana Jean Schemo in The New York Times (“In Study Abroad, Gifts and Money for Universities,” Aug. 13, 2007).   Schemo’s article also paints a ...