Tag: colleges

Parents can do their children a favor if, from an early age, kids hear them say “famous college” instead of “good college.”Because there’s very little data that shows that colleges with big football programs or lots of Nobel prize winners are actually good at doing what a college should do for an undergraduate.If you want…

(CNN)Just days before classes are slated to resume, colleges across the country are finding it may be next to impossible to create a coronavirus-free environment on campus. Young people — whoUS off…

Apple is bringing coding centers to 10 historically Black colleges and universities. Apple Apple has announced extending its education partnerships, adding 10 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to its Community Education Initiative. The schools will have coding centers to become “technology hubs” for their regions, Apple said Thursday. There, people can learn coding and…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Gives $120 Million To Historically Black Colleges (nytimes.com) Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @07:20PM from the chunk-of-change dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix, and his wife, Patty Quillin, donated $120 million to the United Negro College…

Harvard University is the best college in the US. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Education research firm Quacquarelli Symonds shared its first-ever ranking of the best colleges and universities in the United States with Business Insider.The research firm looked at four categories to create an overall index score for 300 universities.At the top of the list was…