University of Kansas

Top 10 "Best for Vets" ranking notes services, support

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A faculty-student exchange with Fort Leavenworth and the Wounded Warrior initiative enhance an already vibrant, supportive learning environment for veterans, and creates opportunities for a sharing of knowledge and experiences among all students and faculty.

Texas A&M University

  • First Kisses

    When you get the urge to kiss your honey this Valentine’s Day, you may think it’s instinct that beckons you to lock lips. But Vaughn Bryant, Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University, says puckering up is anything but instinctive; rather, it is a learned behavior.

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DePaul University

  • Educating socially engaged leaders

    U.S. News & World Report consistently names DePaul’s service-learning program among the nation’s best. The Irwin W. Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning is the reason why. As a model of service learning delivery, the Center stands out for three reasons: its structure; its support of the Community Service Studies program; and the depth, breadth, and duration of its community partnerships.

Chapman University

University of Dayton

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University of Central Florida

  • New UCF, USF Program to Help Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children

    “It really is a wonderful blessing,” said Rosa-Lugo, an associate professor in the University of Central Florida’s Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. “This grant will give us the chance to train students to partner with families and their children to develop foundational listening, speech, spoken language and early literacy skills in children with all levels of hearing loss.”

Amity University

Boston University

  • Class of 2015: Smaller but Smarter

    Students accepted to the incoming class of 2015 average in the top 9 percent of their high school graduating class (compared to last year’s top 11 percent), typically boast an A- GPA, and have SAT scores of 1993—a solid 29 points higher than last year’s class.

Goethe University Frankfurt

The University of Scranton

University of Houston

  • Charter Schools' Impact on Public Learning Institutions

    Charter schools often are the subject of debate among educators, parents and community leaders. Still, the number of these institutions continues to rise, and many of them are opening in areas already occupied by public schools.

Metropolitan State College of Denver

Vanderbilt University

  • Popular course mobilizes students

    In recent weeks, things have changed for the better in the Edgehill community, a neighborhood located a few blocks from the Vanderbilt campus. Healthy food is now more readily available to Edgehill’s low-income residents, thanks to an innovative “mobile grocery store” developed by second-year medical student Ravi Patel and initially inspired by his experience in an undergraduate Human and Organizational Development class.

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Case Western Reserve University

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Technische Universitat Darmstadt

  • TU Darmstadt's synagogue exhibition to tour the USA

    Launch scheduled for 29 August at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, MI. The TU Darmstadt and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen’s "Synagogues in Germany - A Virtual Reconstruction" exhibition may be viewed in the USA commencing in late August.

The University of Hong Kong

  • A Fine Art Lesson

    European depictions of China in 18th and 19th century books may seem an esoteric source of real-life experiences, but for eight Fine Arts students they represented an uncommon opportunity to gain new skills and insights.

Rollins College

  • Engaged Community, Engaged Learning

    “Community involvement is integral to the Rollins experience of engaged learning,” said Laurie M. Joyner, dean of the faculty. Rollins has garnered multiple national and statewide awards for its service learning programs, including the first Florida Campus Compact award as the most engaged institution in the state. The Corporation for National and Community Service has again named Rollins College to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  • Building Bright Futures

    Which comes first? Does a community strive to recruit business, or do community leaders develop a workforce educated to fill the jobs that those businesses will demand?

Higher Colleges of Technology

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  • University Students’ Volunteer Work in the Community Recognised

    Almost 200 University of Reading community-spirited students volunteer in local schools.

    Every year these generous helpers maintain the University's longstanding and proud tradition of supporting the local community – and this year 44 local schools and numerous school children benefited from their help.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Outstanding Options

    With applications rising, UMass Amherst is attracting students who thrive on exploring the array of options available at a major public research university.

University of South Florida

  • A Safety Net for Athletes

    The Sports Medicine & Athletic Related Trauma Institute at USF is elevating the quality of care of sports-related illness and injury for athletes of all ages.