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Colleges Hate It Heather My response: Thanks, Heather. I share the opinion of most college presidents that this proposed rating system is as bad an idea as all the other rating systems that have been tried so far (US News, Washington Monthly, Princeton Review, etc). I love to look at rankings, but I am always aware that they are wildly subjective and deeply flawed. What makes the US Dept of Education’s proposed ranking system especially worrisome is the proposal to tie Federal support for students to

during the summer to develop this program, recently approved by the PLU faculty and the Board of Regents. PLU now becomes the only college or university in the Pacific Northwest to offer a minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. It is also among a small handful of institutions throughout the nation to have a Chair in Holocaust Studies, as well as an Annual Holocaust Conference. Thanks to growing interest across the PLU faculty, strong support from the administration and financial support from donors

to provide increased access to PLU and support the academic achievement of eligible TCC students. “This agreement makes it easier for our students to transfer to PLU, which provides an excellent education close to home,” said TCC President Ivan L, Harrell, Ph.D. “And the scholarship provides opportunity for students who might not otherwise have believed a private school education to be within reach.”  To be eligible for the Automatic Admission Partnership, TCC students will be required to have a

research and explores the challenges of moral distress in correctional settings, particularly in comparison to traditional settings. Surla also offers policy recommendations and ways to combat moral distress in real time, including peer support and self-assessment tools. Surla is the first of her family to graduate from college. Her existing nursing background helped her navigate PLU’s classes. Over time, she had to develop an effective approach for school, including being organized and reaching out

city council and the political parties at play.”  “My hypothesis was that the younger people would be happy with the policy and pleased with the pedestrian-only area, and that older people would be less happy with it. But what I found was that support for the policy was relatively stable throughout, and that in the youngest residents, between about 18 and 25, people were actually fairly skeptical of it and they felt that it was a way to placate the environmentalists who lobbied for it.” Bolton says