All posts tagged "college"

  • Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts President Kim Joon-won speaks to the Korea Times Sunday.
    Korean broadcasting university to set up Hallyu Global Education Center in LA

    A Korean broadcasting university is reaching to bring the Korean wave to new heights with the creation of a Hallyu Global Education Center in Los Angeles. Dong-ah Institute of Media and Arts said it hopes to bring...

    • Posted February 4, 2015
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  • UC Merced has the smallest number of incoming Koreans students this fall at 13. (Korea Times file)
    [Sacramento Bee] UC, CSU applications surge to new highs

    Concerns over rising tuition costs and new student fees haven’t dimmed interest in California’s public university systems. Both the University of California and California State University saw a record number of applications from high school...

    • Posted December 12, 2014
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  • princeton
    [Businessweek] Tips From the Princeton Review: Act Less Asian, Add Pics if You’re Black

    Stakeholders in the contentious debate about how, and whether, colleges should consider applicants’ races or ethnicities tend to use careful allusions to the importance of “differences in life experiences.” The latest edition of one college guide, however, dispenses...

    • Posted November 21, 2014
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  • Students wait to take the annual College Scholastic Ability Test at a high school in Seoul on Nov. 13, 2014. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea quiets down for nationwide college entrance exams

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — More than half a million high school seniors and graduates took the annual national college entrance exam on Thursday with government measures to control traffic and muffle noise near nationwide testing sites in place....

    • Posted November 13, 2014
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  • California scholarship
    California Middle Class Scholarship application deadline extended

    The application deadline for California’s Middle Class Scholarship was extended to December for the 2014-15 school year. California Student Aid Commission told the L.A. Times Wednesday that the deadline was extended due to a smaller-than-expected number of...

    • Posted October 27, 2014
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  • (Korea Times file)
    [HOT LINKS] Cal State to cut enrollment growth

       California State University will have to cut planned enrollment growth for the fall term — from about 20,000 to 10,000 students — after state funding fell short of expectations. The more pessimistic assessment was presented Tuesday...

    • Posted July 24, 2014
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