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Zhai Tiantian, a former graduate student at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, has agreed to return to China, the Star-Ledger is reporting.

It may not come with a surly panel of celebrity judges, but The A.W.A.R.D. Show has an American Idol sensibility about it.

The U.S. Department of Education has proposed new regulations intended to prevent for-profit career colleges from saddling their graduates with federal student loan debts they cannot pay in return for degrees they cannot use.

Twenty years ago, Metropolitan State College of Denver opened an off-campus gallery to serve as an outlet for students, professors and the community.

People Submitted by Elizabeth Chamberlain, Peace Corps New England Regional Office, on 2010-07-28.   Elliot Richard Lafferty, 34, of Burlington, Vermont has been accepted into the Peace Corps.

The Extra Man Directed by Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini Runtime: 105 min.

Comapnies like Health Grades and Hecla Mining help pace their respective industries.

Teresa Puente is a journalist and blogger. She is on the journalism faculty at Columbia College Chicago and is editor and publisher of Latina Voices.

STATE OF THE ART: Former Princeton Public Library Manager of Adult Services Jane Brown is active in a current project to digitize the full run of Town Topics newspapers at an Internet Archives site at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Andrew Keil and Wade Kolata were chosen for the Robert Bosch scholarships and Gary Fine was selected as the first recipient of the Monte Wise scholarship.

Like a mantra, officials from both the Bush and Obama administrations have trumpeted how the government's sweeping interventions to prop up the economy since 2008 helped avert a second Depression.

I hear America singing. Boy, what a ragtime tune. With unemployment high and the prospect of job growth bleak, the national obsession has fast become a spectacle of who gets paid what.

HealthStream profits fell 24 percent in the second quarter compared to the same period a year ago.

A movement is underway to make it easier for entrepreneurs to navigate the lucrative and sometimes-tricky education market and introduce new technology and products into classrooms.