by Beth Holmes | Apr 26, 2021 | News, Student Issues
It’s not new for colleges to require vaccinations. Most four-year institutions in the country (between 80 and 90 percent) require at least the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, which most importantly protects against measles. While measles is rarely fatal in young...
by Supporting Education | Nov 30, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The Rhodes Scholarship, founded in 1902, is an international award to bring postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford, and it is one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world. Each year, it’s awarded to around 100 students, to cover their...
by Supporting Education | Aug 3, 2020 | News, Student Issues
Colleges, with their high-density housing, crowded cafeterias, and thousands of students spending their days in classrooms where social distancing is all but impossible, are a hot spot for all sorts of communicable diseases. With COVID-19 cases spiking in the United...
by Supporting Education | Mar 6, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The University of Southern California (USC), located to the southwest of downtown Los Angeles, is one of the oldest private universities in California. It’s nearly 140 years old. As of the 2018-19 school year, it had just shy of 50,000 students, about 20,000 of those...
by Supporting Education | Dec 19, 2019 | News, Student Issues
At the center of the scandals involving for-profit colleges has been dishonesty about the value of their education. The schools under the Corinthian Colleges umbrella, which were all closed abruptly in 2015, lost their accreditation over their written promises that...
