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Science, math and engineering departments at many universities — including Johns Hopkins, Catholic and Maryland — are abandoning or retooling the lecture as a style of teaching, worried it’s driving away students.
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Hundreds of private colleges and universities have opened in China in the past decade, in response to soaring demand for higher education in the world’s most populous nation.
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U-Md. President Wallace Loh says he knew constructing a new house would rouse emotions.
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Area schools find the Garden State is ripe for picking students looking to out of state for college.
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Synthetic marijuana, commonly called “spice,” is widely used at the U.S. Naval Academy, some midshipmen say.
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