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 Sorry, Recession Won't 
 Get You Into Harvard 

Top schools see no application shortage despite economy

Mar 30, 09 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sure, a lot of people are cash-strapped, but don’t get your hopes up that the recession will boost your shot at an Ivy League school. Harvard got a record number of applications this year—29,112, a 6% jump from last year. And pricey universities like Yale, Dartmouth, Brown,... More »

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education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • Stanford University • college • Harvard • Dartmouth College • colleges and universities • Middlebury College • Common Application

 Geronimo's Heirs Sue 
 Yale to Get Skull Back 

Descendants of Geronimo allege students robbed his grave

Feb 18, 09 5:36 PM CST
(Newser) - Descendants of the legendary Apache chief Geronimo are suing Yale and its secretive Skull and Bones Society for the return of his skull and other remains, reports the Hartford Courant. The suit alleges that members of Skull and Bones—including Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of a pair of presidents—... More »

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Yale University • Oklahoma • Native American • civil lawsuits • Federal government • Geronimo

 Tony Blair: 
 Part Obama, 
 Part Bush 

Ex-prime minister optimistic but doesn't regret Iraq war

Dec 29, 08 5:51 PM CST
(Newser) - Tony Blair was both Britain's Barack Obama, promising change, and its George W. Bush, dragging his country into an unpopular war, Jennifer Senior writes in New York. But now the Middle East envoy and superstar Yale lecturer is his own man. He's excited about Obama's victory and urges the president-elect... More »

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Barack Obama • Tony Blair • Middle East • politics • Yale University • UK politics • Iraq war • George W. Bush

 10 Most-Buzzed-About Schools 

Harvard beats out Columbia for most internet references

Sep 30, 08 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Institutions of higher learning care about their brand as much as any business, so the Global Language Monitor has ranked universities and colleges for the amount of buzz they command on the internet. The winners:
  1. Harvard University
  2. Columbia University
  3. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  4. University of California, Berkeley
  5. Stanford
... More »

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Internet • Columbia University • Princeton University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • UC Berkeley • college • publicity • Cornell University • University of Michigan • Harvard • University of Wisconsin Madison

 SF Votes Today on
 Tobacco Sales Ban

May be nation's first city to shut down drugstore sales

Jul 29, 08 3:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors votes today on whether to ban the sale of cigarettes at the city's pharmacies. City and state legislatures across America—as well as giant pharmacy chains like CVS and Wal-Mart—are carefully watching the outcome of what could be a harbinger of things to come,... More »

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San Francisco • American Cancer Society • Yale University • tobacco • CVS • Gavin Newsom • Wegmans • Wal-Mart • cigarette sales • Walgreen • California Pharmacists Association • California Medical Association • Convenient Care Association

Coaches Take Lessons From Iraq Troops

Mideast trip inspires grid bosses from Notre Dame, Auburn, Miami

May 29, 08 5:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Five big-name college football coaches toured the Middle East for five days, but it was they who came away star-struck by the troops—particularly the teamwork they witnessed among kids the same age as their own players. "We put signs up saying, 'Leave your egos at the door,'"... More »

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Yale University • NCAA football • US military • Charlie Weis • Randy Shannon • Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Auburn Tigers • Georgia Bulldogs • Mark Richt • Miami Hurricanes

 Sir Paul Picks Up Yale Doctorate 

Former Beatle awarded honorary degree

May 27, 08 3:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by Yale University yesterday during the 307th commencement at the Ivy League institution. The identities of recipients of honorary degrees are usually a closely guarded secret, but McCartney's presence on the Yale campus was impossible to keep under... More »

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Paul McCartney • Yale University • Beatles • Richard Levin • commencement speech • Hey Jude

'Abortion Art'
a Hoax,
Yale Says

Student maintains that she impregnated herself over and over

Apr 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Yale art student Aliza Shvarts said she’d impregnated herself “as often as possible,” aborted all the results, and intended to display the resulting menstrual blood, people got a bit upset. Students gathered in protest as the story blazed across a disgusted blogosphere. One problem: It was... More »

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abortion • Yale University • art • hoax • Yale • Aliza Shvarts

Top Colleges Report Record Low Rates of Admission

Harvard accepts just 7% of applicants

Apr 1, 08 3:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Acceptance letters from the nation's top colleges will begin to arrive on prospective students' doorsteps today, but far more rejection letters are in the mail than ever before, reports the New York Times. Harvard and Yale accepted only 7.1% and 8.3% of applicants, respectively, both record lows... More »

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education • Columbia University • Yale University • Ivy League • college admissions • college • university • Dartmouth • Harvard • college applications

Blair to Take Yale Post This Fall

Former British PM will combine religion, politics classes with Middle East peace mission

Mar 7, 08 7:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Tony Blair’s ties to President Bush are getting thicker by the minute: The former British prime minister will take a teaching position at Yale, Dubya's alma mater, this fall, the Guardian reports; Blair's son Euan is a grad student at the university, the Yale Daily News reports. Blair, who's... More »

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Tony Blair • Yale University • Bill Clinton • The Quartet • Clinton Global Initiative • Iraq war • London School of Economics • Blair Faith Foundation • George W. Bush

Yale Joins Financial Aid Parade

Another Ivy acts
to help families
lighten tuition load

Jan 14, 08 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Yale will greatly increase its financial aid offerings in a plan similar to the one Harvard unveiled last month, the Yale Daily News reports. Families making between $120,000 and $200,000 ($20,000 more than Harvard's cut-off) annually will pay tuition of around 10% of income, and those earning... More »

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Yale University • Harvard • financial aid

Yale Ups Endowment Spending

Rich schools slammed for sitting on wealth

Jan 8, 08 8:46 AM CST
(Newser) - Yale will significantly increase spending from its $22.5 billion endowment next year—providing more financial aid and launching new research. The university will draw $1.15 billion from its endowment compared with $843 million last year. The decision comes after Yale and other top universities were criticized for sitting... More »

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Yale University • Ivy League • Senate Finance Committee • Charles Grassley • financial aid • endowment • Richard Levin • spending rule

OPINION

Tax Harvard
to Help Fund Poorer Colleges

Banker urges taxing investment earnings to close education gap

Dec 21, 07 4:17 PM CST
(Newser) - The growing disparity between the richest universities and their more modest counterparts is not as often discussed as other aspects of America's wealth gap, prominent investment banker Herbert Allen writes in the New York Times—but it should be. The nation’s wealthiest colleges have endowments topping $1 million per... More »

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Princeton University • Yale University • Harvard • income disparity • endowment

Quote of '07: Don't Tase Me, Bro!

Miss Teen South Carolina takes second with 'US Americans' ramble

Dec 19, 07 1:36 PM CST
(Newser) - As he was being arrested at a John Kerry rally, a college student yelled, “Don’t Tase me bro!” He was Tasered anyway, and that yell is the top quote of 2007, according to the Yale Book of Quotations. Here’s the rest:
  1. Miss Teen
... More »

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Yale University • list • Don't Tase me, bro!

In Higher Education, the Rich Get Richer

Funding gap widens breach between Ivies, public schools

Dec 3, 07 1:08 PM CST
(Newser) - As Ivy League schools upgrade dorms, financial aid, and student-faculty ratios, America’s public universities are losing out, BusinessWeek reports. The "Ivy Plus" schools, which include Stanford and MIT, represent 1% of the US student population but are the richest by far. "We can add resources in... More »

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Princeton University • Yale University • Ivy League • Stanford University • Harvard • brain drain

College Gets Podcasted

Apple serves up free education with iTunes U

Nov 24, 07 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Want to attend Yale for free? Thanks to Apple, you sort of can. Many colleges, including Yale, Stanford and MIT, now offer free lecture downloads through iTunes U. You won’t get a diploma, but thousands of non-traditional learners don’t mind, the LA Times reports. “They thirst... More »

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Stanford • Yale University • MIT • iTunes • higher education • iPod • UC Berkeley • podcast • iTunes Store

Even Babies Know Friend From Foe

In study, infants show social judgment
long before they can talk

Nov 21, 07 7:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Babies know how to pick out friends from enemies even before they can talk, a new study suggests. The findings could mean that such social behavior is innate rather than learned from parents, said researchers at Yale University. In the study, babies 6 to 10 months old clearly preferred playing... More »

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Yale University • baby • nature vs. nurture

Yale Returns Artifacts to Peru

Machu Picchu artifacts have been on display at Yale for a century

Sep 17, 07 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of artifacts taken from Machu Picchu almost a century ago for Yale's Peabody Museum will be returned, Yale and the Peruvian government announced on Friday. The collection to be returned consists of 380 museum-quality objects, as well as part of those in the research collection. Yale will grant... More »

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Yale University • Peru • Machu Picchu • Alan Garcia • Hiram Bingham III • artifacts

Top 10 US Business Schools

Step it up a notch (and raise your profile) at these elite centers of learning.

Aug 19, 07 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forbes ranked these business schools not only on their prestige but for their return on investment.
  1. Dartmouth (Tuck)
  2. Stanford
  3. Harvard
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Columbia University • Yale University • college rankings • Stanford University • University of Chicago • list • business school • Dartmouth • University of Virginia • Harvard • Northwestern University

Princeton Wins
College Rankings
for 8th Year

Annual survey comes under increasing fire for favoring the rich

Aug 17, 07 6:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Facing a barrage of criticism, the latest college rankings from U.S. News and World Report were released today, and Princeton is still No.1, followed by Harvard and Yale. The editors have tried to address complaints about the survey's bias toward schools that educate the well-to-do and the well-prepared.... More »

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education • Princeton University • Yale University • college admissions • college rankings • school • college • university • Harvard

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