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(Edward C. Pease and D. Whitney Smith for the Deseret News) -- When Sen. Howard Stephenson complained last winter about Utah college students wasting time and tuition on "degrees to nowhere," he hit a nerve on campuses statewide. Specifically, the Draper Republican's gibe rattled cages in liberal arts colleges and in departments like English, history and the arts, where the...
READ · Oct 25
(Paul Baskin, Chronicle of Higher Education) -- A couple of years ago, a pair of researchers at Georgetown University and Rutgers University concluded that, contrary to widespread perception, the United States produces plenty of scientists and engineers. The problem, wrote Harold Salzman of Rutgers and B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown, is that fewer than half of all college graduates...
READ · Oct 21
(Molly Farmer, Deseret News) -- Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, sees room for improvement in Utah's higher education system and hopes to draft legislation that would increase retention and cut back on the need for remediation of the state's college freshmen. Urquhart, co-chairman of the higher education appropriations subcommittee, introduced a handful of ideas Wednesday he hopes will turn into...
READ · Oct 20
Utahns of all ages are being encouraged to “Step Up" through a new federally funded social awareness campaign targeted at promoting higher education options to underrepresented populations throughout the state. StepUP to Higher Education looks to overcome barriers sometimes associated with higher education by encouraging students to dream big about their futures and provides the tools for students to act on those...
READ · Oct 10
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