For-profit, or proprietary, colleges are the fastest-growing postsecondary schools in the nation, enrolling a disproportionately high share of disadvantaged and minority students and those ill-prepared for college. Because these schools, many of them big national chains, derive most of their revenue from taxpayer-funded student financial aid, they are of interest to policy makers not only for t...

In an unprecedented effort to address the epidemic of diabetes in tribal communities, the Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools project brought together a group of individuals from eight tribal colleges and three federal agencies to develop a diabetes prevention curriculum for American Indian and Alaska Native school children. The curriculum incorporates Western and Native science with culturall...

Engineering Institutions in our country has increased a lot. Ranking the colleges is a mandatory process for the benefit of students, to identify the best college in each discipline. In this paper, we proposed a method to rank the professional colleges. We employ the fuzzy repertory table (FRT) technique to acquire the necessary domain knowledge of engineering colleges from which the ranking is...

Employing a nationally representative sample of science faculty in U.S. colleges, we investigate 3 explanations for persisting differences in women’s faculty representation across science fields even after adjusting for women’s variable representation among doctoral recipients. First, we examine labor market factors: (a) differential growth rates and “critical mass” in the supply of women docto...

This study applies and tests the efficacy of flipped learning approach designed for a business English translation course in class consisting 26 third-year major students an independent college, Yangtze University College Arts Science. Because colleges usually have weak skills lack awareness, this explores way to improve their competence while changing traditional lecture-centred methodology. A...

Immigrant youth and children of immigrants make up a large and increasing share of the nation's population, and over the next few decades they will constitute a significant portion of the U.S. workforce. Robert Teranishi, Carola Suárez-Orozco, and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco argue that increasing their educational attainment, economic productivity, and civic engagement should thus be a national prior...