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Another sign that the internet is about to burst the college cost bubble: In the past, students have paid for courses, at a rate of $370 a credit, putting the cost of the average Excelsior degree at about $20,000. Now, there’s a cheaper alternative. Faculty at Excelsior have matched each end-of-course exam to one or more free online courses. Students download the free course, complete it through independent study and then sit for the final exam.
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A recent study at Duke found that black students take easier classes than white students. The study has inflamed racial tensions on campus, but its authors say students are drawing the wrong conclusions.
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The Conservative Political Action conference--a yearly gathering of conservative leaders, activists, and students--has been made a target of the Occupy movement, which is protesting the event. But according to The Daily Caller, labor unions are paying the occupiers to show up for the protest.
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A new compromise would allow religious universities and other non-profits to exempt themselves form providing insurance coverage for birth control. So has Obama finally warmed up to the principle of religious liberty? Don't count on it.
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This week, a university unintentionally sponsors segregation (but that's what you get when you open up a campus in Qatar), while Obama mistakes unpaid servitude for employment. But first...
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A five-year fundraising drive paid off for Stanford University, which raised $6.2 billion--the most money ever raised by a university during a donor campaign.