Amherst College News
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Professors across the U.S. are criticizing a rush to offer free online college courses, challenging a movement designed to spread knowledge and reduce higher-education costs.
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U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.
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Stanford University and the University of Chicago, among the 10 highest-ranked U.S. schools, plan to offer tax-exempt revenue bonds amid the biggest rally this year in the $3.7 trillion municipal-debt market.
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Two months into his presidency at Rutgers University, Robert Barchi was overseeing the largest reorganization at U.S. public colleges, including a medical school merger. In a fateful decision, he chose not to watch a video of the men’s basketball coach abusing players that later horrified the nation.
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Amherst College, one of the wealthiest U.S. liberal-arts institutions, lost its top credit rating because of an increase in debt relative to revenue, Standard & Poor’s said yesterday in a report.
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At Amherst College’s Pratt Hall in 1970 and 1971, a handful of students from Greece spent countless hours decrying the military junta ruling their country.
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India’s top court said years spent on death row can’t be considered grounds for clemency as it rejected a mercy plea from a convicted Sikh militant, a verdict that may be applied to others aiming to prevent their execution.
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Octavio Brindis thought he had it made when he won a scholarship funded by Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates to help him go to college tuition-free.
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At his first cabinet meeting after two inconclusive elections and six weeks of turmoil had pushed Greece to the brink of exiting the euro, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he’d had enough.
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Amherst College is overhauling its policies for investigating sexual assault following a campus outcry over the school’s policies for handling complaints.
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