Ian Parry
“Students continue to be attracted to the high quality and diverse opportunities offered by US colleges and universities. But it is critical for US institutions to set strategic goals and be proactive in reaching out to students and families in a wide range of countries in the coming...
Moreover, only 39 percent of Native American students, 40 percent of Black students, and 54 percent of Hispanic students who enroll in college earn their bachelor's degree within six years, compared with 64 percent of White and 74 percent of ...
In HSBC’s2018 report, The Value of Education, the US again emerged among the top choices for parents considering university abroad for their child – but also one of the most expensive, with students spending an average of US$99,417 over the course of their degree. ...
1Includes historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs, de ned as current and eligible HSI grantees in the US Department of Education's 2020 Eligibility Matrix), and tribal universities. 2Institutions ...
Over the past three years, several colleges and university systems have moved to prohibit caste discrimination. In December 2019, Brandeis University near Boston became the first U.S. college to include caste in its nondiscrimination policy. The California State University System, Colby College, Brown...
Air pollution contributes to the global burden of disease, with ambient exposure to fine particulate matter of diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) being identified as the fifth-ranking risk factor for mortality globally1. Racial/ethnic minorities
division. Of the 138,305 autistic inpatients aged 2–17 years, about 10% had a primary diagnosis related to ACSCs. The results showed that the highest proportion of preventable hospitalizations for autistic children occurred in the middle Atlantic division of the northeast region. Racial differences...
Tan says NUS invests substantially in programs and initiatives that help students gain these skills. The NUS Residential Colleges program, for example, allows a freshman cohort to combine on-campus living with a multidisciplinary curriculum, and the Overseas Colleges program, a technology entrepreneurship...
While these students reported boredom more frequently than stress, stress appears to be a significant issue of the pandemic for young adults, with 18–29 year-olds consistently reporting the highest rates of anxiety and depression symptoms in the population (CDC National Center for Health Statistics...