Posts Tagged ‘Massachusetts Institute of Technology’
Technically Speaking, NE’s Largest Grad Enrollments
by John O. Harney
December 30, 2010
The weekly Mass High Tech newspaper recently published a list of New England institutions with the largest "tech graduate enrollment." The list of 20 includes some famous New England private research institutions such as MIT and Harvard as well as seven public universities.
Although Mass High Tech didn't use a specific definition of "tech" programs, it ...
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Rhodes Scholars Abound in New England
by Shoshana Akins
December 1, 2010
Ten of the 32 new Rhodes Scholars are from New England or studied in the region.
They are: Mark Jia and Nicholas DiBerardino, both of Princeton University; Laura Nelson of the University of Virginia; Zachary Frankel, Daniel Lage and Baltazar Zavala of Harvard; Alice Baumgartner and William Zeng of Yale; Gabrielle Emanuel of Dartmouth; and Jennifer ...
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NE Campuses Wearing Green on 2011 College Sustainability Report Card
by Christine Cassis
October 26, 2010
The College Sustainability Report Card 2011 is out today, revealing the profiles of 322 schools and their sustainability policies. The fifth edition of the report by the Sustainable Endowments Institute assesses 52 indicators, ranging from green initiatives to recycling programs, and uses an A to F letter-grading system to evaluate different colleges and universities nationwide.
Some ...
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Will MITx Change How We Think About Higher Education?
by Philip DiSalvio
February 6, 2012
While many colleges and universities are trying to adapt to the forces affecting higher education today, a recent move by the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology is about to cause a seismic shift.
The prototype version of MITx is scheduled for launch in spring 2012. MITx is an outgrowth of MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), which began in ...
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