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Legislative leaders in hot seat on new SLCC program

(Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News) -- For years, Utah's governor has fielded questions from local reporters during an unedited televised monthly press conference. Now it's the Legislature's turn. Salt Lake Community College is launching a new program, "Capitol Voices," on Wednesday featuring Senate President Michael Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, and House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo. Their half-hour exchange with reporters will be televised on...

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READ · Oct 26

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Utah groups work to combat low female graduation numbers

(Nadine Wimmer, KSL-TV) -- Usually the title "first in the nation" is a positive thing. But more young women in Utah drop out of college than anywhere else in the country. We're right on track with how many start. Now, several groups are trying to help more girls finish their education. Earlier this month, Eighth-grader Tori Castillo went on a date...

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READ · Oct 25

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Providing degrees to everywhere

(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...

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READ · Oct 25

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High Demand for Science Graduates Enables Them to Pick Their Jobs, Report Says

(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...

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READ · Oct 21

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