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The article informs about Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer whose work revolutionized our understanding of the universe in the early 20th century. Topic include Her discovery of the "period-luminosity" relationship of Cepheid variables allowed astronomers to measure cosmic distances accurately, leading to groundbreaking insights into the vastness of the universe and shaping modern cosmology.

The article focuses on Florida's approval of the Classic Learning Test (CLT) for college admissions, offering it as an alternative to the SAT and ACT, as part of Governor Ron DeSantis' efforts to reform Florida's education system, although there are concerns about the CLT's empirical evidence.

The article reports that Russian tennis player Diana Shnaider traveled solo in Europe without a working bank card due to financial sanctions against her country, and Shnaider's aggressive style of play and powerful serve has seen climb the Women's Tennis rankings.

The article reports that the brother who is certain, just like some of his fellow fans have been almost every season since the Reagan administration, that this is Georgia's year, or the aunt who went to Texas but requires a reminder that there are other teams in the Big 12 Conference.

This article offers advice on studying abroad for American college students. The author says if the student is willing to go without the services offered by his or her college the costs can be shaved significantly. Many colleges will not extend financial aid to students studying abroad unless they pay the full U.S. tuition. so exchange programs between students tend to be cheaper. Many colleges won't give credits for courses that compete with theirs. Advice is offered on how to choose a program.

The article reports on attempts by Harvard and other universities to revamp their general education requirements for a more global and technologically centered era. Some schools, like Brown, have no requirements while others, like the University of Chicago, have a set curriculum. Insets describe the general education requirements at various U.S. institutions. INSETS: Columbia: Great Books.;Brown: To Each His Own.;John Hopkins: Balancing Science.;Duke: Modes of Inquiry.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Education has ordered Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to remake their Middle East studies program. The department made the move after it found that the universities offered a biased curriculum did not present positive imagery of Judaism and Christianity in the Middle East. It claimed that the program violated the standards of a federal program that awards funding to international studies programs.

Reports that the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will offer in January 2005 an academic course called, "Examining 'American Idol' Through Music Critique," which consists of watching the popular television show twice a week and deciding what factors are important in music and music performance.

Focuses on former history professor Andrew P. N. Erdmann, senior adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Role of Erdmann and his team of aides in reviving the higher education system; Academic background; Outlook for the next stage of reconstruction; Comments of Erdmann, who believes history will be at the center of the debate on curriculum revision; Problem of de-Baathification; Estimated cost of reconstruction.

The article focuses on the demonstrations at the Columbia University where five students went on a hunger strike demanding a more multicultural curricula. It reports that the university allowed strikers to camp in the library lawn and were offered to sleep indoors. It compares the hunger strike with demonstrations held in 1968 which had ended in police violence. It reflects that most of the college students appreciated past protests but did not support this hunger strike.

Focuses on the course of study in digital games at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Passion students have for creating video games; How the program was created in order to fill the needs of students; Description of the classes and their popularity; How video games are created by students; What students learn about video games and their development; Other schools who have similar courses of study; Hope that this program will attract creative and technically minded students.

Examines how U.S. colleges and universities are adding services to help young students find the right major. Observation that undecided students have become commonplace on campuses; How indecision and the trend in exploratory programs reflect deeper changes in higher education; Rising popularity of exploratory programs; The cost of indecision; Views of educators.

Reports on black studies programs at Temple University and Princeton. Debate about what should be incorporated in black studies programs; View that Temple attempts to redress the shortcoming's of Eurocentric perspectives; Lack of a black studies department at Princeton.

The article reports on the crisis facing the City College of New York because of reduced spending on public higher education. The college encountered problems such as leaking ceilings, bathrooms that sometimes run out of toilet paper, overcrowded lectures and dwindling course selections. The college could fail to earn reaccreditation if the problems are not addressed.

The article focuses on Jeppe Nordmann, director of Scandinavia's first government-funded training course Viking Life. Topics discussed include rape and pillage which are excluded in the curriculum, students who enrolled in the Viking course at a continuing education college in Seljord in Norway will learn on artwork and Viking-style garments and boots, and viking fan Anders Kvale Rue,

The article focuses on the course titled "Mao Zedong Thought and the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, China which is a government-mandated regimen of ideological education.

A correction to the article regarding colleges that offer courses in embracing failure misidentified the position that Amy Jordan holds at the University of Pennsylvania in the July 2, 2017 issue, is presented.

The article focuses on the role of the University of Saskatchewan in leading a reconciliation campaign to provide higher education to indigenous peoples in Canada. The campaign seeks to achieve several objectives including a correction to historical injustice committed by white settlers during colonial times, the introduction of indigenous learning requirements and closing the graduation gap affecting indigenous children. The impact of the campaign on the curricula is discussed.

The article introduces the Syllabus Explorer, a tool that allows the database of college course syllabuses to be searched, providing insights about teaching, publishing and intellectual history.

The article discusses a trend in academia toward setting up cross-disciplinary centers focused on issues of climate change and sustainability, a change from traditional academic models which involve insular departments competing for funds. There is said to be a need for collaboration between disciplines as diverse as chemical engineering and political science to solve problems such as global warming.

The article discusses services science, a new hybrid field which utilizes technology, management, mathematics, and engineering to improve service businesses. Several universities are beginning to offer courses and research programs in the field. A graph comparing services and goods in terms of number of employees and percentage of the economy is presented. Technology companies, such as I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard are looking for ways to increase interest in services science.

The article reports that a higher education commission named by the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is examining whether standardized testing should be expanded into universities and colleges to prove that students are learning. A memorandum written by commission chairman Charles Miller is reviewed. The group, known as the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, has until August of 2006 to make a report on issues that include accountability, cost and quality.

The article observes that a small but growing group of well-known U.S. universities are offering formal programs in game design and the academic study of video games. The trend has been criticized by traditionalists in both education and the video game industry, but others believe that video games are poised to become one of the dominant media of the twenty-first century. The growing game industry is looking for new talent. Some educators suggest that studying games will soon seem as ordinary as going to film school or examining the cultural impact of television.

The article discusses programs for the master's in business administration degree. Topics include the advantages of traditional M.B.A. programs at graduate business schools such as Harvard and Stanford. Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon offers "tracks" such as computational marketing in its curriculum. The University of Chicago and the Sloan School of Management offer flexibility in required courses. The University of Missouri, Kansas City's Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration emphasizes entrepreneurship. A consortium of Jesuit universities and other colleges have programs for study abroad.

Examines new and innovative ways in large course lectures in universities and colleges in the U.S. Pedagogical models initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in introduction physics courses with the application of computer technology instead of the traditional lecture forum; Features of the Technology Enabled Active Learning; Strategies implemented by other universities.

Comments on the dilemma of choosing a academic degrees for the passion of the college major or for the love of earning money in the U.S. Assertion of students and career counselors that the pressure to choose the right major is intense because of tuition costs and uncertain economy; Facts and figures on the increase of annual four-year public college degree; Claim of the authors of "College Majors Handbook With Real Career Paths and Payoffs" that choosing a major is more crucial to future financial success that the college attended.

Reports that Julliard, Columbia College, and Barnard College, three of New York's most distinguished schools, will collaborate in a program that will allow musically talented students to earn two degrees in 5 years, a bachelor of arts degree in any major and a master's in music.

Corrections to articles in previous issues are presented including the progress in shipping Syria's toxic chemical weapons, college courses intended to navigate the U.S. Affordable Care Act and a picture caption of San Diego State college basketball player Xavier Thames in California.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "Far From My Tree" by Sue Robins in the December 8, 2013 issue.

The article focuses on the Pearson College in London, England. Roxanne Stockwell, the college's managing director, says that the school will give students the chance to learn business in a successful company. It states that the school also plans for an undergraduate curriculum and some master's degree programs. It adds that the degrees that will be awarded by the school must be approved by the Privy Council.

The article features Victoria Chase, a 54-year-old woman who suffered from depression in the 1980's while enrolled in Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn. It says that she had stopped schooling for 25 years, as her doctor recommended, and raised children. It states that several agencies offered her assistance including the New York Times Neediest Cases Fund and New York City Housing Authority. It mentions that she is now enrolled at Boricua College for a business administration course.

The article discuses the increasing number of academic programs offered in the U.S. It notes that colleges and universities reported about 1,500 academic degrees to the Department of Education. It also notes that 355 majors were included to the list over the previous 10 years as colleges, adopting new disciplines like homeland security and global studies, cyberforensics and agroecology.

A few months ago, free online courses from prestigious universities were a rarity. Now, they are the cause for announcements every few weeks, as a field suddenly studded with big-name colleges and competing software platforms evolves with astonishing speed. In a major development on Tuesday, a dozen highly ranked universities said they had signed on with Coursera, a new venture offering free classes online. They still must overcome some skepticism about the quality of online education and the prospects for having the courses cover the costs of producing them, but their enthusiasm is undimmed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

LOS ANGELES -- Class sizes have increased, courses have been cut and tuition has been raised -- repeatedly. Fewer colleges are offering summer classes. Administrators rely increasingly on higher tuition from out-of-staters. And there are signs it could get worse: If a tax increase proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown is not approved this year, officials say they will be forced to consider draconian cuts like eliminating entire schools or programs. For generations, the University of California system -- home to such globally renowned institutions as Berkeley and U.C.L.A. -- has been widely recognized as perhaps the best example of what public universities could be. Along with the California State University system and the state's vast number of community colleges, higher education options here have long been the envy of other states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shortly after she enrolled her 3-year-old son in a prestigious, $21,000-a-year Upper East Side preschool, Rachael Combe, an editor at Elle, received an invitation from the head of the school to come by for a visit. She assumed the meeting was to discuss how her son was adapting to the school's curriculum. Instead, the head of school explained that he was laying the groundwork for a new capital campaign, and that he had already received commitments from various families -- some up to $1 million. Would Ms. Combe and her husband consider a gift of ''even $25,000 to $50,000?'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After a century firmly anchored in Boston, Northeastern University is branching out -- becoming Southeastern, Northwestern and perhaps Western and Midwestern as well. Northeastern, known for its co-op program in which undergraduates spend significant amounts of time in the workplace, opened its first satellite campus this fall in Charlotte, N.C., and is planning a second in Seattle next year; outposts in Austin, Tex., Minnesota and Silicon Valley are under discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pace of change in business is quickening, and business schools are scrambling to keep up. A number of prominent B-schools, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School among them, have rethought their programs and are making changes to reflect the increasingly global scope of business and to improve students' leadership and teamwork skills. Some schools are asking students to wrestle with questions about the ethical lapses that contributed to the financial crisis. Nitin Nohria, new dean of Harvard Business School and co-author of ''Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership,'' discussed the new courses, and the goals and thinking behind them. You've added some new components to the Harvard Business School curriculum. Can you describe them? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- Carlene Pinto watched from her middle-school classroom in Brooklyn as the plane pierced the second tower; then she trudged the three miles home as paperwork and dust rained from the sky. Rebecca Rodriguez felt helpless as a teenager watching Hurricane Katrina unfold on television. And Lindsay Yates still shudders at the recollection of Hurricane Fran, which killed two dozen people in her native North Carolina when she was a second grader. Now in their early 20s, these women might be members of a support group for those brushed by trauma at a tender age. Instead, they spent the spring term studying disaster mental health at the State University of New York campus here. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For as long as anyone can remember, students who have tried to transfer within the City University of New York system -- from, say, a community college to a four-year school -- have run into delays or denials in getting their course credits accepted. Many have wound up spending additional time and money to secure their degree, while others have simply given up. Now the university has proposed a major overhaul that would guarantee the smooth transfer of credits by creating a common framework for general education courses -- a so-called core curriculum -- at all of its two- and four-year colleges. It would also reduce the number of core credits needed for graduation at virtually all of the four-year colleges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the going gets tough, the tough take accounting. When the job market worsens, many students figure they can't indulge in an English or a history major. They have to study something that will lead directly to a job. So it is almost inevitable that over the next few years, as labor markets struggle, the humanities will continue their long slide. There already has been a nearly 50 percent drop in the portion of liberal arts majors over the past generation, and that trend is bound to accelerate. Once the stars of university life, humanities now play bit roles when prospective students take their college tours. The labs are more glamorous than the libraries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In a St. John's University English class the other day, 10 students tackled George Orwell's ''1984'' like generations of collegians before them. But while there was plenty of higher-order thinking, the class -- and the students -- were technically still in high school. The college class is one of 16 being taught at Jericho High School here on Long Island, half of them added in the past two years through new partnerships with St. John's in Queens, Molloy College in Rockville Centre and the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Jericho students simultaneously fulfill their high school graduation requirements and, for a reduced fee, earn college credit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

To the Editor: You report that the number of college courses in diplomatic, military, legal and economic history is shrinking, while the number of courses in social and cultural history is increasing (''Great Caesar's Ghost! Are Traditional History Courses Vanishing?,'' Arts pages, June 11). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What if there really was an elephant in the room? Or a whole herd? An assignment in the course ''Wearable Technologies'' at Syracuse University challenged students to create objects that interact with each other, using technology to extend the reach of the human body; the students were to study and record unanticipated user behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Stanley J. Seeger gave Princeton $2 million for Hellenic studies nearly three decades ago, the gift's income paid for two courses in modern Greek and trips to Greece for five. But the Seeger money, which must be spent only on matters Greek, is now worth $33 million, multiplying through aggressive investing like the rest of Princeton's endowment. So the university offers Greek, Greek and more Greek -- 13 courses this semester, including ''The Image of Greece in European Cinema'' and ''Problems in Greek History: Greek Democracy,'' as well as trips to Greece and nearby areas for more than 90 students and faculty members last year. The history department recently hired its second Byzantine specialist. And the fund paid half the cost of a collection of 800 rare coins from medieval Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information about the proposed American University of Iraq to be established in Sulaimaniya, Iraq. The university would conduct classes in English and teachers would be invited from around the globe. Various courses including business and computer science would be organized at the university. The university is modeled after the famous private universities in Egypt and Lebanon. To complete the project, about $250 million would be spent.

The article presents questions and answers related to college courses and gap years. In the first question a reader asks for advice on choosing classes. The article discusses class balance, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and examining class syllabuses. Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, states that if a student has the qualifications the student often benefits from applying first and then taking a gap year with the college's approval.

The article states that Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey has announced that it would expand its black studies program. The expansion would include at least a doubling in the number of faculty members, the introduction of a major for undergraduates, and the creation of a new center for teaching and research on race in the U.S. According to Shirley M. Tilghman, Princeton's president, the most profound challenge facing the U.S. is the struggle to achieve racial equality.

The article reports on the automotive program of McPherson College in Kansas.

The article presents a syllabus from a winter term course at MIddlebury College, "Early Scientific Instruments: Exhibiting Scientific Artifacts From Middlebury's First Century." Team taught by physicist Fred Winkler and designer Ken Pohlman, the course will explore the scientific tools that were used in classrooms before computers and microscopes.

Reports on the objection of the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College to the creation of a college of arts and sciences that would standardize admissions criteria, graduation requirements and other procedures by Rutgers University, New Jersey.