Paul said the two colleges are similar and face headwinds in what she calls a “challenging time in higher education.”
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Footing the free college bill
Americans generally have a poor understanding of how higher education is financed and start their own planning too late.
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Hidden history: An RIT professor helps recover ancient texts
If the revolutionary knowledge contained in works by legendary Greek mathematician Archimedes had been available earlier, many scholars say, it could’ve altered the course of modern science. Instead, the works disappeared into a void for about 1,000 years. The newly recovered works show, among other things, that Archimedes anticipated calculus, the basis for modern engineering […]
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Finger Lakes council refines plan for economic contest
The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council now knows how it would spend a $500-million state award, if it wins. Seven Upstate regions are competing for money through the state’s Upstate Revitalization Initiative. Three regions will each get $500 million. The Finger Lakes council has spent the past few months preparing, and today, it approved […]
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Finger Lakes council gets outline of competition plan
Later this year, we’ll learn the winners of the Upstate Revitalization Initiative; three regions in Upstate New York will each receive $500 million in economic development funding from the state. The decision will be based, more or less, on detailed documents outlining each region’s plan for investing the money. The plans are currently being put together; […]
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Giuliani pick splits Fisher alumni
Some alumni of St. John Fisher College have reacted not-so-favorably to the college’s selection of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as 2015 commencement speaker. And dozens took to Facebook to either show their support, or to vent. One alumnus calls Giuliani an “ego-driven politician who is out for his own desires.” An alumna […]
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Council hears recommendations for Frontier upgrades, other projects
Soon, the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council will have to figure out which of 200 or so projects to recommend to the state for funding. That’s approximately the number of applications the council received. And this afternoon, council members heard presentations from sector-specific work groups about the projects they say should get priority. There […]
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Possible rating system sends chills through higher ed
It’s hard to know what to think about President Obama’s plan to rate higher education institutions. The rating system would inject the federal government into an accountability role for about 7,000 colleges and universities. The feds would evaluate tuition costs and graduation rates, among other factors. On one hand, the federal government and ultimately taxpayers […]
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Local colleges moving forward on START-UP NY plans
Three local colleges could soon be active in START-UP NY, a state program that provides substantial tax breaks for businesses while linking them with public and private higher education institutions. Schools that want to participate have to develop a plan and submit it to state officials. The plans are supposed to identify the type of […]
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Kress shines and so does the rest of Rochester
If you were heading south on West Henrietta Road yesterday around 10 a.m., you probably saw the dozen or more squad cars belonging to state troopers, and the black, unmarked Silverados stationed in driveways and parking lots. A very alert police dog sniffed the arriving salt-rimmed cars at Monroe Community College’s Applied Technologies Center. The […]
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Has higher ed lost its edge?
For the last 50 years, a college education almost guaranteed a secure job with a good salary and benefits; you wouldn’t have to endure the backbreaking labor of your first-generation parents working in factories, digging sewer ditches, or trying to eke a few hundred bucks a month out of a plot of land. But the […]
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From shepherd to Fulbright scholar
One of Nangyalai Attal’s earliest memories is of watching foreign aircraft bomb the Afghan countryside. “I remember the people running and screaming,” he says. “I don’t remember if it was being done by the Soviets or the mujahideen who were trying to expel them. But I can still remember the horror of it.” And while […]
