The present academic year in India has experienced chaos following fee hikes, public demonstrations and staying of admissions in private medical colleges. Following the Supreme Court judgment in October 2002, some private medical colleges in Mumbai had raised annual fees from about $2,500 to $7,500. In its judgement, the court had allowed financially independent private sector to run professional colleges, a right granted earlier only to minorities based upon religion or language.
Wood College, in Mississippi, has closed its doors after 117 years. The two-year private college lost its accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in March 2002 because
Clark Atlanta University's former general counsel has turned the tables on his old employer, filing a $1-million wrongful-termination lawsuit against the private institution.
Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina announced on Friday a plan to let some of his state's public colleges transform themselves into private institutions if they do not wish to be under the control...
If at first you don't succeed, sue. Proving that litigation pays, Dickinson College has landed a gift estimated at more than $20-million -- the largest in the history of the small private...
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