A group called ROC Teachers in Action is fielding candidates including Audrey Sowell, a School No. 17 teacher who will challenge the longtime RTA president.
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UR to offer tuition-free nursing education
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The UR Nursing Scholars Program will reimburse all tuition costs annually for 33 Accelerated Bachelor’s in Nursing students at the university.
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Ains make $1.5 million gift to Eastman School
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The gift from Eastman alumnus Susan Ain and her husband, Aron, establishes a newly endowed violin professorship. It comes during the school’s centennial campaign.
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RIT secures $2 million for lab upgrade
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Rochester Institute of Technology is slated to receive federal funds to update and expand its Semiconductor Fabrication Lab.
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The gaps in teaching U.S. racial history
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Americans’ views of the nation’s racial history are deeply divided. In many ways, this division shapes what students learn—or don’t learn—in the classroom.
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Mortimer named inaugural Golisano Institute president
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Ian Mortimer, who most recently was vice president of enrollment management and associate provost at RIT, will lead the business school launched by Paychex founder Tom Golisano.
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Golisano to launch business school
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The Golisano Institute for Business and Entrepreneurship plans to charge students $8,900 a year in tuition.
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Not all RCSD students can access playful learning, report says
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PlayROCs, released this week by the Healthi Kids Coalition, says children and parents view play as an essential form of learning and part of a well-rounded education.
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UR’s Institute of Optics receives $12M challenge fund
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The 10-year initiative, endowed by University of Rochester life trustee James Wyant and his wife, Tammy, will enable the institute to increase its prominence and its faculty by 50 percent.
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The college debt debate
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Separating myth from reality in the student loan crisis is a complex task. Knowledgeable observers assert that the system needs major surgery, not a butterfly bandage.
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Fostering equity
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Colleges and universities are working to find effective ways to serve and reflect a changing student body.