College Shorts

This week, the private company Kiplinger released its “11 Best-Value Private Universities,” with Princeton, Yale and California Institute of Technology topping the charts, respectively.
Kiplinger evaluated more than 600 private universities, using data from the college evaluation resource Peterson’s.  Admission rates, tests scores, graduation rates, tuition, and housing fees were taken into account in the decisions.
The top three schools’ tuitions exceeded $49,000 for each school, representing the 100 schools in America that now cost near $50,000 each year.  This shatters the previous year’s record of only 58 schools.  University of California at Berkeley also became the first public university that costs over $50,000 each year for out-of-state students.
The list is one of many released by companies and organizations every year in an effort to rate American colleges, which families and prospective college students look to for guidance.

— The Huffington Post



Eight Asian students were attacked at Indiana University and subjected to racial slurs, robbery and battery.
The students were attacked by three or four male African-American students while walking towards a dorm.   An argument then resulted, culminating in a physical attack on two of the Asian students. One student was sent the to the hospital with facial injuries, although has since been released.  Another student was struck in the head but did not need to be hospitalized.
In total, the students also lost an iPad, iPod and cell phone.  Police are currently investigating the case.

— The Indiana Daily Student



A team of Texas A&M professors received $5.2 million to develop the digitalized health care system that American doctors could easily adopt.
Though the health care system is changing in multiple ways at the moment, President Obama felt it important to emphasize the growing trend of converting medical files into a digital system.
The team is striving to encourage doctors to swiftly and seamlessly change over.
Arun Sen, information and operations management professor at A&M, said, “There is a learning curve with physicians, which is where we come in.  If the physicians are not using [computerized healthcare systems] or not using them well by 2015 the government will lower their Medicare and Medicaid pay.”
Obama implemented the project using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

— U-Wire