MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'colleges,'. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:06:02 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851740&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F7WV-RsICUJA%2F On Sunday, the Washington Post ran an op-ed by the chancellor and vice chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, in which the writers proposed that the federal government start pumping money into a select few public universities. Why? On the constantly repeated but never substantiated assertion that state and local governments have been cutting those schools off. As I point out in the following, unpublished letter to the editor, that is what we in the business call “a lie:” It’s unfortunate that officials of a taxpayer-funded university felt the need to deceive in order to get more taxpayer dough, but that’s what UC Berkeley’s Robert Birgeneau and Frank Yeary did. Writing about the supposedly dire financial straits of public higher education (“Rescuing Ou... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851740 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:02:09 +0100 2851740 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2803886&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FlMgOXjofQRg%2F The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsiblilty Act will probably be approved by the House of Representatives today, and to push it along the bill’s sponsor, Rep. George Miller (D-CA), makes clear for whom he is working: Let’s remember whose voices really matter here. It’s time to listen to our students and our families. First of all, do the voices of taxpayers not matter at all? You know, the folks who are going to foot the bill for all this largesse? Oh yeah – concentrated benefits, diffuse costs. And have students and their families really been trees falling in the wilderness with no one to hear them? With inflation-adjusted aid per full-time-equivalent student (table 3) rising from $4,454 in 1987 to $10,392 in 2007 — a 134 percent increase — it sure does... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2803886 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:37:04 +0100 2803886 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2737698&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2F6QKjjQMhsjk%2F Recently Anheuser-Busch  hit upon the marketing idea of selling Bud Light beer in cans decorated with the college-team colors.  As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) doesn’t have much else to do - it’s not like there’s been say fraud going on in the mortgage market – it quickly turned its attention to the issue, expressing “grave concern” that these team-colored cans would encourage underage and binge drinking. As quoted in the Wall Street Journal,  FTC attorney Janet Evans said “this does not appear to be responsible activity.”  What’s not responsible is the FTC wasting taxpayer resources wondering what color beer cans we are drinking out of.  When I was an underage drinker, the last thing on my mind was the color of the can.  ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2737698 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:27:29 +0100 2737698 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2653671&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FqluhO8I2kB0%2F It’s not often that I can transition from my education beat to other hot topics, but an Inside Higher Ed story on colleges’ health-care benefits includes this little nugget: One trend documented in the survey that may concern many employees is the increase in “consumer driven” health insurance plans by colleges. These typically involve employees setting up tax-free accounts to pay for some care, and then high deductibles for major medical expenses. This year, 17 percent of colleges were offering the plans, up from 11 percent two years ago. So what’s so terrible about “consumer driven” health care, which from the article sounds like health savings accounts ? The story doesn’t say — nor does it give any details on who puts the money into... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2653671 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:31:12 +0100 2653671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2613829&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FYWSMk_XCRlQ%2F Understandably, the public is a little preoccupied right now with efforts in Washington to “reform” health care by making it much, much worse. Fortunately, people are starting to notice that a congressional bum rush is heading right toward them — maybe they’ll be able stop it in time. Unfortunately, that is giving Washington a chance to sneak some other stuff by us. In particular, I’m thinking of the just-introduced Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. It’s been largely ignored so far, save a little chatter about the community college stuff it incorporates. In a simpler time, it would have generated a lot more copy. After all, it will: end federally backed student loans that come through private companies, and instead make Uncle Sam the universal lender; greatly increas... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2613829 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:59:31 +0100 2613829 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2598186&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FUakKnH9jZss%2F With the Obama Administration promising to ramp up all sorts of college-affordability (read: government expenditure) efforts in the coming months, now is a crucial time for Americans to understand why our colleges and universities ingest money as bottomlessly as their students guzzle beer. With that in mind, the release of a new report from the John William Pope Center is perfectly timed. The Revenue-to-Cost Spiral in Higher Education explains how colleges’ internal arrangements render them almost destined to spend every dime they bring in, no matter how wastefully. The basic problem, argues author and economist Robert E. Martin, is that very few colleges and universities are intended to make a profit — which would give “owners” a powerful incentive... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2598186 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:54:58 +0100 2598186 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2424029&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FJg-RkqeBr-A%2F A tax credit bill was recently proposed in South Carolina to give parents an easier choice between public and private schools. It would do this by cutting taxes on parents who pay for their own children’s education, and by cutting taxes on anyone who donates to a non-profit Scholarship Granting Organization (SGO). The SGOs would subsidize tuition for low income families (who owe little in taxes and so couldn’t benefit substantially from the direct tax credit). Charleston minister Rev. Joseph Darby opposes such programs, and I support them. We’ve decided to have this dialogue to explain why. Our closing comments appear below, and the previous installments are here and here and here. Rev. Joe Darby Closing Comment Thanks for the research and references, Andrew, but I do... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2424029 Tue, 19 May 2009 17:00:06 +0100 2424029 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2405022&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FRiMBjn2iPXc%2F While much of the debate around the so-called “Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights” has been on ending various card policies aimed at disguising different credit risks, one group of cardholders is certain to lose their right to credit under this bill: adults between the ages of 18 and 21. Under the current Senate bill, the only way for someone under the age of 21 to get a credit card would be either: 1) they have a co-signer, such as their parent, sign for it, or 2) they maintain a job with sufficient income to cover any obligations arising from the credit card. By contrast, neither of these requirements is put in place for student loans; there is the clear expectation that you pay those loans back in the future from your increased future income that results from going to ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2405022 Thu, 14 May 2009 17:51:06 +0100 2405022 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2210603&cid=t_285119_112_f&fid=34971&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdoctorandpatient.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F02%2Fnatasha-gets-into-oxford-on-full.html Natasha, my daughter, is completing her BSc in Biotech from Jai Hind College of Bombay University. She has got into the MSc program for Integrated Immunology into Oxford University, UK, for 2009-2010 - and we just found out that she has been awarded a 100% Clarendon Fund scholarship for her studies. She's on top of the world that she doesn't have to depend upon her parents for her fees ! (Source: The Patient's Doctor) The Patient's Doctor blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2210603 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0100 2210603 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1798211&cid=t_285119_87_f&fid=35052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FWomensBioethicsBlog%2F%7E5%2F393858187%2FT.asp [Thank you to HR Moody for compiling and contributing this great collection of news items and stories from a bioethics and gerontological perspective]:*********************************ARE YOU FEELING OLD YET? What are they letting children learn in college these days? One of the great things for gerontologists who teach college students is that we get to feel old ourselves all the time. Consider the latest points about this year's freshmen, the Class of 2012, as reported by Beloit College's well-known "Mind Set" compendium. For our freshmen this year: -GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available -"WWW" has never stood for World Wide Wrestling -The Warsaw Pact is as hazy for them as the League of Nations was for their parents -IBM has never made typewriters -Lenin's name h... Women's Bioethics Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1798211 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:01:00 +0100 1798211 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1734257&cid=t_285119_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F375170986%2F Concerned about the influence drugmakers may have on medical education, the renowned institution is expected to announce today that it will severely restrict industry financing of doctors’ continuing education at its medical school, according to The New York Times. The move comes amid growing criticism that industry-sponsored CME is designed to promote specific products, while pharma maintains its money is intended solely to keep doctors up to date. To sort it out, Stanford plans to announce that it will no longer let drug and device makers specify which courses they wish to finance. Instead, companies will be asked to contribute only to a schoolwide pool of money that can be used for any class, even ones that never mention products, the Times writes. With its approach, Stanford becomes... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1734257 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:17:34 +0100 1734257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1458508&cid=t_285119_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F05%2F20%2Fdistinguishing-fiction-from-reality-in-college-students%2F You knew that the actions of the Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho were going to reverberate and likely help change the face of college campuses forever. Not just in the obvious ways, such as increased campus security, but in much more subtle ways too. Such as the English professor ratting you out for your “dark” fiction that, if you were Stephen King, might bring you a $1 million paycheck. But as a starving college student living on campus, it might instead bring you nothing more than a forced psychiatric evaluation and a police escort off campus. That’s the story of Steven Barber, who wrote just such dark fiction for a University of Virginia creative writing class. Of course, Mr. Barber probably shouldn’t have had 3 guns in his dorm room, but still. Where do co... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1458508 Wed, 21 May 2008 00:36:42 +0100 1458508 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1407327&cid=t_285119_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F280234049%2F Yesterday, we wrote that the Association of American Medical Colleges released a report that was two years in the making and recommended that drug and device makers shouldn’t be allowed to offer freebies - including meals, gifts, travel and ghost-writing helps - to docs, staffers and students in any or all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges. The 30-member task force, which included a few dissident ceo’s from Pfizer, Lilly and Amgen (read those footnotes carefully), put their heads together over concerns that undue industry influence may raise questions about the “objectivity and integrity of academic teaching, learning and practice” and undermine the ability of academia and industry to jointly promote the public’s interest in sound health. There are situations... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1407327 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:54:10 +0100 1407327 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1404054&cid=t_285119_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F28%2Fmedical-giveaways-to-be-banned-in-medical-schools%2F The spigot of free gifts, travel and other give aways to doctors, professors and students in the nation’s 129 medical schools is about to be closed. Gosh, I don’t know how they’ll manage… The New York Times brings us the story today: Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded. The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort by the group, the Association of American Medical Colleges, to create a model policy governing interactions between the schools and industry. While schools can ignore the association’s advice, most follow its recommendation... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1404054 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:39:56 +0100 1404054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1404200&cid=t_285119_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F279323333%2F Drug and device makers shouldn’t be allowed to offer freebies - including meals, gifts, travel and ghost-writing helps - to docs, staffers and students in any or all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, according to a new report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, which spents two years on the project. “Over recent decades, medical schools and teaching hospitals have become increasingly dependent on industy support of their core educational missions,” the report states. “This reliance raises concerns because such support, including gifts, can influence the objectivity and integrity of academic teaching, learning a nd practice, thereby calling into question the commitment of academia and industry together to promote the public’s interest by ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1404200 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:01:05 +0100 1404200 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1399130&cid=t_285119_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F04%2F25%2Fneed-to-get-into-college-try-adhd%2F This article describes how disclosing a disability may actually be a liability, as colleges could potentially see such students as requiring more work and attention (even if, by law, they are not allowed to consider such disabilities in their application process; they still do). Once a student has an ADHD label, they may be surprised at how much it follows them throughout school, and even life too. It may even follow them to graduate school, if they choose to go that route, and what was once something used to the student’s advantage may end up becoming a liability on the student’s academic record. Dr. Fournier’s advice is good, too: Talk to your daughter and explain to her that this scenario is no different from a student-athlete taking steroids to increase physical p... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1399130 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:46:43 +0100 1399130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1266665&cid=t_285119_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2F243015223%2F The Association of American Medical Colleges and the Association of American Universities have just issued a report that, they hope, will provide a “roadmap” for medical schools, teaching hospitals, and major research universities to “identify, evaluate, and manage financial conflicts of interest in research that involves human research subjects.” (This is the report). The groups note that recommendations were issued in 2001 and 2002, but concerns remains, especially in the wake of a scandal at the National Institutes of Health and and as academic institutions expand their relationships with industry. But a recent study revealed that, as of 2006, just 38 percent of the medical schools surveyed had policies addressing institutional conflicts of interest. And so they ... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1266665 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:39:15 +0100 1266665 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1237810&cid=t_285119_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F236535598%2F Joanne Jacobs, educator, blogger and author of Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds, participates today in our Author Speaks Series with an excellent article on how "Schools won’t improve until administrators and teachers can admit the problems, analyze what’s going wrong and try new strategies. Students won’t improve if they think they’re “special” just the way they are." Enjoy, and feel free to add your comment to engage in a stimulating conversation. ----------------------- The First Step Is Failure By Joanne Jacobs When self-esteem became an education watchword in 1986, I thought it was a harmless fad. I was wrong: It wasn’t harmless. Many teachers were persuaded that students should be pumped u... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1237810 Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:38:14 +0100 1237810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1236360&cid=t_285119_109_f&fid=35677&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FBrainBasedBusiness%2F%7E3%2F235791568%2Ftop_10_online_colleges_ranked.html Have you ever considered a business degree online? Those who do … tell you that online colleges are far from equal. Todays rankings show where you'll obtain the best bang from your bank. Interestingly, research just in - can help you make the best selections. How so? Online Education data Base or OBED has spoken again!  2008 Online College rankings are in! It seems that Upper Iowa University reigned in many ways this year … and many say it is for good reason. The scores were ranked according to:1. Acceptance rate… or AR2. Financial Aid … or FA3. Graduation rate … GR4. Peer Web citations … PW5. Retention rate … RR6. Scholarly citations … SC7. Student faculty ratio … SF8. Years accredited … YAIt’s ... BrainBasedBusiness blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1236360 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:12:06 +0100 1236360