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AROUND ACADEME

Applications swell in Ivy League
Numbers released by Harvard and Dartmouth show an increase in overall applications for admission, but an even higher increase in the percentage of minority student applications: an increase over last year of more than 28 percent for Harvard and, for Dartmouth, to more than 25 percent of total applications. Officials at Harvard have cited their new financial aid initiative as the reason for the increase in applications, which essentially provides room and board as well as tuition to students whose family income is less than $40,000 per year.

Special ed moves into college class
The University of Southern Maine has joined forces with Strive, a non-profit organization that serves young adults with disabilities, to form a program they call “Strive University,” which so far has enrolled six students with Down syndrome in standard college classes. A similar partnership is in the works in New Jersey, between the National Down Syndrome Society and that state’s public and private colleges, and they hope to create a model for providing college education to young adults with mental disabilities. In response to the growing interest in these specialized programs, the U.S. Department of Education is developing a database of available programs—there currently are 50 nationwide.
—Susan Myers Smith
 
 


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