Seattle Times
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This Bloomberg News story quotes KSAS economist Laurence Ball.
Business Week Online
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes comments from Yuval Bar-Or, an adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins’ Carey Business School.
LeHighValleyLive.com
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Story reported that Scott Menke, a Flemington native who attends Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, lost on 'Jeopardy" on Monday night.
Minnesota Public Radio
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This page links to a radio interview with P.M. Forni, a Krieger School professor who directs the Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins University.
NumisMaster.com
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this article, JHU has in its possession a genuine Brasher doubloon.
Houston County News
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Story mentions Harlan Parker, conductor of the wind ensemble at Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University.
Asia Times Online
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Story mentioned a highly critical report by Emergency Assistance Team, together with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, released in March was challenged by a group of 21 international agencies.
KSAT (San Antonio, Texas)
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Story on the salt content of fast food quotes Mel Daly of the School of Medicine.
Wall Street Journal Blogs
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Reports that Johns Hopkins is alerting more than 10,000 of its hospital patients that they may have been victims of identity theft.
Data Protection
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Reports that Johns Hopkins Hospital is warning more than 10,000 patients about a data theft after linking a woman working in the hospital's patient registration area to fraud.
Washington Times
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes comments from Ben Carson, a professor of neurological surgery in the School of Medicine.
New Kerala (India)
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article about a Johns Hopkins-led study includes comments from Anna Kottgen, an assistant scientist in the School of the Public Health, and Josef Coresh, a professor in the school’s Department of Epidemiology.
The Telegraph (Calcutta, India)
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes comments from Robert Black, a professor in the School of Public Health’s Department of International Health.
WebMD.com
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes comments by Mel Daly, a geriatrician and associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
OnMilwaukee.com
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This blog quotes from a list of questions, attributed to Johns Hopkins, to help determine if a person is an alcoholic.
Washington Business Journal
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on the first meeting of a new federal advisory committee on health information technology policy, a panel that includes Michael Klag, dean at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health.
United Press International
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes a comment from Mel Daly, a geriatrician and associate professor of medicine at the School of Medicine.
Baltimore Sun
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Piece mentioned that Johns Hopkins researchers are collecting and interpreting statistics in regard to Howard County's new health access program for the uninsured.
National Geographic News
May 11, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: James Roberts, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, is quoted in this article.
New Kerala (India)
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: James Roberts, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, is quoted in this ANI article.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature focuses in part on Rex Sanders, who will enroll at Johns Hopkins next fall to play on the men’s lacrosse team.
Baltimore Sun
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Article reports that Of the seven programs that have won national championships in the 38-year NCAA tournament history, all seven - Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Virginia, North Carolina, Cornell and Maryland - are still alive.
Christianity Today
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: A Q & A with World Relief's Jenny Hwang, a graduate of JHU.
Baltimore Sun
May 12, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Winter attended JHU.
************************************ HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS Boston Globe
May 12, 2009
As a result of its unprecedented push to recruit more students of modest means, the number of Harvard students from families making less than $60,000 a year has surged 30 percent over the last five years. One of the students interviewed for this story said he feels like he doesn’t have anything in common with his wealthy classmates. As it increases its outreach to such students, Harvard is doing more to help them adjust to campus life and address the disconnect that many experience on arrival, said William Fitzsimmons, dean of admissions and financial aid, who himself was a scholarship student at Harvard.
Wall Street Journal
May 12, 2009
Citigroup Inc. said Tuesday it will lend up to $5 billion to state and local governments, municipal agencies, universities and nonprofit hospitals for projects that will create jobs and drive economic growth.
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 12, 2009
California, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin – the first nine states to apply for federal stimulus money meant for education – say they will use most of the money for public, K-12 schools rather than colleges or universities.
Times Leader (Wilkes Barre, Pa.)
May 12, 2009
Sallie Mae executives Monday said they don’t necessarily oppose President Barack Obama’s plan for student loans, they just want to make changes the company’s CEO says would reduce profitability but save thousands of jobs.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
May 12, 2009
This editorial is in favor of President Obama’s proposal to cut federal subsidies to private lenders in order to boost Pell Grants. But the op-ed also points out that relatively few students are poor enough to qualify for Pell Grants and that the proposed increase wouldn’t do much to offset fast-rising college costs.
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 12, 2009
This op-ed by the president of American Student Assistance, a nonprofit, federally supported student-loan guarantor, suggests that all parties involved in student loans should work together to develop a single, lender-neutral system whereby a student or parent could pick any lender, including the government, on any campus and have the loan processed as efficiently as any other.
Inside Higher Ed
May 12, 2009
This op-ed by president of Macalester College addresses how the "no loans" policies adopted by wealthy colleges may have fostered the dangerous belief that borrowing for college is somehow wrong.
Inside Higher Ed
May 12, 2009
The American Federation of Teachers is today releasing a 10-year analysis showing how the tenure-track professorship is disappearing.
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 12, 2009
The proportion of instructors working part time is continuing to grow, according to a new report from the American Federation of Teachers. The report underscores that tenured and tenure-track professors are an ever-shrinking slice of the professoriate at American colleges and universities.
San Jose Mercury News
May 11, 2009
Stanford's Office of Development — the university's fundraising office, the most successful collegiate moneymaker in the nation — has cut the equivalent of nearly 20 percent of its staff. It is also scaling back on events, reducing travel and shifting publications from print to online. Even though this single office brought in $1.61 billion in the past two years, the university is looking everywhere for cuts because of the economy.
Inside Higher Ed
May 12, 2009
More than 50 colleges in the U.S. have canceled summer study abroad programs to Mexico in response to swine flu, affecting an estimated 1,300 students, according to data compiled by the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration. Following an initial wave of cancellations, however, a number of colleges and providers have announced plans to continue with summer study abroad offerings in Mexico, albeit in some cases with modifications.
Washington Post
May 12, 2009
The D.C. agency that handles college financial aid requests said yesterday that it had accidentally e-mailed personal information from 2,400 student applicants to more than 1,000 of those applicants. The information included student names, e-mail and home addresses, phone and Social Security numbers and dates of birth. The disclosure involved the "DC OneApp," an online application that allows D.C. students to apply for a series of grant programs.
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