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What Is Northwestern Known For? All You Need to Know

AdmissionSight

The school offers several grants and programs that can help students in their research, such as: Academic year undergraduate research grants. Projects for this grant should be connected to an independent study or thesis seminar. Conference travel grant. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2023 Womens field hockey.

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What Majors Is Vanderbilt Known For? Your Guide to Its Best Programs

AdmissionSight

From engineering brainiacs to future policy wonks and music prodigies, this school has majors that put students on the map. By the time they graduate, they’re landing gigs at top companies like Goldman Sachs and Deloitte or heading off to prestigious grad schools for law, business, or policy. But what majors is Vanderbilt known for?

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David Brooks on "Meritocracy"

The Thoughtful College Search

(Originally published in Inside Higher Ed on January 27, 2025) Are many of the ills that plague American society caused by Ivy League admission policies? He quotes Adam Grant that academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. Those examples seem cherry-picked. Is the worship of standardized testing misplaced?

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Public Health at UNC: Deep Dive

The Koppelman Group

Originally an offshoot of the medical school, the school of public health has since come to comprise seven departments and one program Biostatistics, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Epidemiology, Health Behavior, Health Policy and Management, Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, and Public Health Leadership and Practice.

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Thinking Historically

Penn Nursing

A: I’ve always had an interest in historical work—I spent some time doing a postdoc in bioethics because I wanted to learn how to take the historical work and arguments that I was making, and apply them in a way that might impact what people were doing on the ground, or maybe shape policies. 2006 Ellen D. 2006 Ellen D.

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Nearly $19M in Grants Awarded to 12 Colleges to Address Teacher Shortage

BestColleges

The program — dormant since its creation in 2008 — supports teacher preparation programs at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), and other MSIs. The Department of Education (ED) announced Wednesday that colleges and universities across the U.S.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

EAB

Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs. Pell Grant availability for incarcerated adults Starting in July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell eligible. Community colleges have seen a.9%