College Board

• The College Board last week issued a medal to its outgoing president. Former West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton has headed the organization, which oversees the SAT, for the past 13 years.
(msnbc.com)
• JACKSON — After years of delay, members of the state's College Board will again try to raise $34 million in private money to endow Mississippi's three historically black universities.
(Mississippi Business Journal)
• WASHINGTON (AP) - While schools across the country are letting out this week, class is in session on the National Mall. That is where the College Board set up 857 student desks in the blazing sun Tuesday.
(msnbc.com)
• Green Bay and a yet-to-be-determined location in central Wisconsin have been chosen by the Medical College of Wisconsin board of trustees as sites for new medical education campuses, the school announced Monday morning.
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• (MoneyWatch) Earlier this month, word reached the media that the College Board was going to make an exception to its rule that the SAT test isnt administered in the summer.
(CBS News)
• You may have seen or heard about the College Board ad campaign that criticizes the American education system. College Board displayed 857 empty desks to represent the number of hourly high school dropouts in the U.S.
(Suite101.com)
• The retired politician and former Egmont MP, was recently appointed president and chair of the board. He said following the death of executive director Scott MacAulay there were a few turbulent years for the college.
(journalpioneer.com)
• The almost insatiable demand for a college credential meant that schools could raise In 2003, only two colleges charged more than $40,000 a year for tuition, fees, and room and board; by 2009, 224 were above that mark.
(New York Times)
• JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A high-ranking administrator at a New York college has been named the first woman president of New Jersey City University. Sue Hendersons appointment was announced Monday night during a special board of trustees meeting.
(San Francisco Gate)