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There’s a 30-person college in the California desert where students work off their tuition on a cattle ranch — and it produces Rhodes Scholars and Pulitzer Prize winners

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Deep Springs College is a two-year school with only 12 to 15 students per class. Student attend for free, but must work 20 hours a week to pay their way. Students hold jobs on the farm and ranch, and cook, clean, and maintain vehicles. Deep Springs College is a tiny 30-person-or-less school located in the […]

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‘I would never hire anyone like you’: Sheryl Sandberg received a brutal rejection when she tried to break into tech

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Sheryl Sandberg worked for the US Secretary of Treasury before she moved into the tech sector. She struggled to find a job at first. “I would never hire anyone like you,” Sandberg was told in an interview. Sheryl Sandberg, current chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of leanin.org, wasn’t always at the top of […]

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The best high school in America helped create the fast-growing AP program — but now, it refuses to teach the classes

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Phillips Academy doesn’t offer the AP program. Andover was a founding AP school in the 1950s. School administrators say that teaching to the AP isn’t the best way of teaching. Phillips Academy, a boarding school in Andover, Massachusetts, that is often pegged as the best high school in America, doesn’t believe in the Advanced Placement […]

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Here’s what it takes to get into the best high school in America, an elite boarding school that feeds students into the Ivy League

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Phillips Academy receives 3,000 applications each year but only accepts about 13%. The admissions committee looks for characteristics of optimism, social agility, perseverance, and resilience in applicants. The school calls an applicant with top scores from the admissions team an “admit six.” It’s not easy to gain acceptance to Phillips Academy, the Andover, Massachusetts boarding […]

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20 of the most beautiful libraries in the world

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A library can be a second home for a bibliophile. They come in all shapes, sizes, and levels of embellishment. The nearly 300-year-old State Hall in Vienna, Austria, boasts carved wooden galleries, baroque-style statues, and frescos, while Taipei’s Beitou Branch resembles a treehouse more than a shelter for books. We scoured the internet and found […]

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3 Dartmouth professors accused of sexual misconduct once conducted a study about sex with 58 female freshmen

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The New Hampshire attorney general is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by three tenured Dartmouth professors. The professors conducted a 2012 study about sex and the brain with 58 female freshmen. Details of the alleged misconduct have not been released. Three tenured Dartmouth College professors, whose research included studies about sex and attractiveness, have been […]

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3 Dartmouth College professors are being investigated for alleged sexual misconduct

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The New Hampshire attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct by three Dartmouth professors. The professors are Todd Heatherton, Bill Kelley, and Paul Whalen. All three work in the department of psychological and brain sciences. Three Dartmouth College professors have been placed on leave as a criminal investigation into alleged sexual […]

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Inside America’s best high school — a boarding school that costs $53,900 a year and feeds students into the Ivy League

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Phillips Academy, a prestigious boarding school located in Andover, Massachusetts, is the best high school in America. It’s founding dates back to the American Revolution — where its roster of early supporters reads like a “who’s who” of American exceptionalism. George Washington, Paul Revere, and John Hancock all have ties to Andover, which the school […]

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This tiny Christian college doesn’t charge tuition and maintains a $400 million endowment — see what it’s like

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College of the Ozarks, a Christian liberal-arts college located in Missouri, has a $416 million endowment. But unlike other private liberal arts colleges with large endowments, C of O, as it’s often called, has accumulated its endowment all while offering four-year degrees to students tuition free. The roughly 1,500 person school made news recently for […]

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A private college that doesn’t charge tuition now requires a class on American flag protocol and refuses to play against schools that kneel for the anthem

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College of the Ozarks is a private college that requires students to take a class on respect for the American flag. The school’s “no pledge, no play” policy states its sports teams won’t compete against schools whose athletes kneel during the anthem. The school is tuition-free for all four years. College of the Ozarks, a […]

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10 industries hiring college grads like crazy right now

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Job hiring will increase 19% in 2018, helping recent college grads find employment. The information services industry will see the biggest increase in hiring. The results come from the largest annual survey of employers in the US. College seniors looking ahead to their job prospects after graduation should rejoice hiring figures coming out of a […]

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Inside Columbia University’s secretive robot labs, where grad students print out muscles and move machines with their minds

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Control a robot with your mind. Bring unresponsive limbs to life. Engineer tasty, nutrient-rich food tailored to an individual’s biometrics. These are just a few of the robotics projects that Columbia University PhD students are working on in their cramped, underground labs. Business Insider got inside for a rare tour of the spaces, and saw […]

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Middle school students used Snapchat to pretend to rape black classmates in the locker room — and it shows a dangerous trend

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White middle school students on a Virginia football team took a video simulating sex acts on black team members. The video was captioned, “What really goes on in the football locker room.” Some experts see this type of behavior online becoming more prevalent. A Snapchat video of middle school students simulating the rape of black […]

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Bill Gates will invest more than $1 billion in public schools — but he’ll have to learn from Mark Zuckerberg’s mistake

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Bill Gates announced that he would invest more than $1.7 billion in public education. Mark Zuckerberg invested $100 million into Newark Public Schools in 2010 and it was largely seen as a failure. Gates wants schools and educators to drive the process. Bill Gates will fund a massive investment in education, pledging more than $1.7 […]

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‘We will be shutting the door on an entire generation’: In a letter to congress, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford urge protection for undocumented students

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In September, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. DACA provides temporary protection from deportation to individuals brought to the US as children. Hundreds of colleges and universities — including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford — wrote a letter to the US Senate and House of Representatives to […]

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Florida declared a state of emergency before a white nationalist’s speech — and protesters showed up with confetti, high-fiving state troopers

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White nationalist Richard Spencer spoke at UF and protesters attended the speech. Uplifting messages were written on confetti and spread around the street. Many people chose to come together and denounce hatred. Florida governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in advance of a speech at the University of Florida by noted white nationalist […]

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White nationalist Richard Spencer will speak at the University of Florida — and UF is spending $500,000 on police presence to keep students safe

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The University of Florida expects to spend $500,000 on security for a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Spencer, a far-right figure, attended the Charlottesville protests, and pledged to speak at other colleges. There will be more police on the UF campus than in any other time in the school’s history. The University of Florida […]

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We visited the posh English preschool in Manhattan where manners are paramount and 4-year-olds eat off china

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The English private school that educated princes William and Harry found a home in New York City this year. Wetherby-Pembridge School, located on 96th street and the section of 5th Avenue deemed “Museum Mile,” opened a branch of the school in New York and currently enrolls children in nursery, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten classes. We visited […]

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The NCAA will not sanction UNC after an academic scandal — here’s how a student-athlete got an A-minus with a one-paragraph final essay

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For years, UNC Chapel Hill student-athletes and non-student-athletes alike used “paper classes” — courses that never met and required only one final paper — to boost their grades. The NCAA announced on Friday that it “could not conclude” that UNC violated academic rules after a years-long investigation into the academic scandal, saying the university will […]

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19 powerful people who were in fraternities and sororities

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While college Greek life is most often associated with frat parties, formals, and kegs, professionally your Greek affiliation could be hugely beneficial. Fraternities and sororities have vast networks that come in handy. With that in mind, Business Insider put together a list of some of the most powerful people who rushed Greek organizations in college. […]

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The founder of Khan Academy built the ultimate school for kids to work and play together — take a look inside

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Sal Khan is probably best known for launching Khan Academy, the free online learning platform that covers everything from art to history to computer programming. But Khan is also leading the charge on another learning revolution: flexible learning spaces. Originally founded as an all-ages school in 2014 in Mountain View, California, Khan debuted for the […]

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A Penn State fraternity has been suspended after a student was found unconscious in a parking lot nearby

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A fraternity at Penn State has been suspended after police found a student unconscious near a parking close to the fraternity’s house, CBS reported. The student had allegedly been drinking at the Delta Tau Delta house and the fraternity is on an interim suspension while the university conducts an investigation. “The potential involvement of Delta […]

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The Department of Justice is allegedly investigating Harvard’s admissions practices

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is allegedly engaged in an ongoing investigation into Harvard University’s admissions practices, BuzzFeed News reported Wednesday. The investigation appears to have been confirmed after a government watchdog group and a civil-rights organization submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about a possible investigation into admissions practices at Harvard University […]

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A USC professor was detained by police after she told her class there was an active shooter when there wasn’t one

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The University of Southern California locked down on Monday after reports of an active shooter on campus, The Washington Post reported. The one-hour campus-wide lock down occurred after an adjunct professor told her class there was a shooter. Police arrived at the Los Angeles, California school but found no threat or crime of any kind. […]

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An early-morning dance party that startup workers are obsessed with is expanding to colleges — here’s what it’s like

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Daybreaker, a company whose early-morning dance parties draws startup workers in London, Paris, New York, and Tokyo, is bringing the sunrise soirée to college campuses across the US. Founded in 2013, Daybreaker throws three-hour raves complete with electronic dance music, free juice and snacks, and yoga — all before most people have their morning cup […]

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Hazing is nothing new — fraternities have been beating and force-feeding pledges since Colonial times

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When hazing scandals occur on college campuses, there typically seems to be a collective public reckoning over how fraternities have sunk so low. But in reality, hazing is not a recent phenomenon. That topic is explored in John Hechinger’s newly released “True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America’s Fraternities,” which explains fraternity hazing has roots […]

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Watch an Air Force general rebuke students over racism at Air Force Academy: Show respect or ‘get out’

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After racial slurs were found on dormitory message boards belonging to five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School this week, the academy’s superintendent offered a harsh rebuke of racism, misogyny, and other forms of bigotry. “If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect, then you need to get out. If […]

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Digital badges are the newest effort to help employees stave off the robots — and major companies are getting on board

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Automation is swiftly transforming the workplace and has been called the greatest threat to human jobs and the economy. To protect against massive disruption to the workforce, some experts suggest companies get involved. “Its no longer adequate to study one thing and not learn anything else your entire career,” Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson […]

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‘Blow it up and start from scratch’: University of Louisville students weigh in on basketball after Pitino

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After 16 years as head coach of the University of Louisville’s men’s basketball program, Rick Pitino’s tenure has come to an end. He was placed on leave amid a bribery scandal involving 10 coaches and associates with ties to multiple major programs. Pitino brought a national championship and three Final Four appearances to the Cardinals, […]

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There’s a tiny college outside LA that didn’t exist until 1957 — but now graduates out-earn Harvard and Stanford alums

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As the Cold War was heating up, Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, came into existence. The tiny college welcomed its first incoming freshman class in 1957, in a world where atomic weapons were reality. This fact drives the school’s culture, Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe told Business Insider. Founding president Joe Platt’s vision of […]

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Confederate flags with cotton on them were posted around American University’s campus — and the school just released a photo of a suspect

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Ten Confederate flags with cotton attached to them were found posted around American University’s Washington, DC campus Tuesday evening, according to a statement from the school. The posters coincided with a speech introducing the school’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. “We are well aware this act occurred the same evening Dr. Ibram Kendi presented ‘A […]

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Sessions says free speech on college campuses is ‘under attack,’ but calls NFL protests ‘a big mistake’

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday accused American college campuses of being echo chambers of “political correctness and homogeneous thought” and undermining free speech rights, at the same time defending President Donald Trump’s vociferous criticisms of NFL players’ protests over the weekend. “Freedom of thought and speech on the American campus are under attack,” Sessions […]