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All posts tagged "university"

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  Harvard gets biggest gift ever: $400M from Wall Street alum

  BOSTON (AP) — Harvard has received its biggest gift in school history — a $400 million donation from Wall Street hedge fund billionaire and alumnus John Paulson, the university said Wednesday. The endowment from Paulson will support...

  • Posted June 3, 2015
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  [Boston Globe] To get into elite colleges, some advised to ‘appear less Asian’

  Brian Taylor is director of Ivy Coach, a Manhattan company that advises families on how to get their students into elite colleges. A number of his clients are Asian American, and Taylor is frank about...

  • Posted June 3, 2015
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  [Forbes] 10 Colleges whose students almost always repay debts

      How do you determine the value of a college education? As the cost of college skyrockets and each graduating class comes out more indebted than the last, it’s a question that has grown in importance in...

  • Posted May 14, 2015
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  5 African students receive $186,000 of scholarship to Korean university

  By Chung Hyun-chae Five African students received a combined total of 200 million won ($186,000) in scholarship Tuesday from Duksung Women’s University to support their master’s degree studies at its graduate school. The Duksung-U.N. Women Global Partnership...

  • Posted April 28, 2015
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  Unemployment rate for recent college grads rises in US

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The job prospects for recent college graduates deteriorated slightly last year despite an improvement in the overall job market, the Labor Department said Thursday. The unemployment rate for Americans age 20 to 29 who...

  • Posted April 16, 2015
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  SNU staff to receive mandatory education on rights, sex

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — Seoul National University (SNU), the most prestigious school in South Korea, will make it mandatory for all staff members to regularly take education courses on human rights and gender quality, the university said Thursday,...

  • Posted December 11, 2014
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  Wild boar creates havoc at Yonsei University building, escapes

  A wild boar broke into a Yonsei University Wonju campus building on Dec. 4. at approximately 7:28 p.m., according to Yonhap.  Wonju is the most populous city in the Gangwon province just 87 miles east of Seoul. After...

  • Posted December 4, 2014
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