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Mourners pack Tech after attack

BLACKSBURG, Va.-- In a day filled with a constant barrage of media images of the shooter who took the lives of at least three of her friends and 29 others,Behnaz Bonyadian took solace as thousands of people patiently filed into Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium yesterday afternoon.


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Report revealsnarrower public-private income gap

Thanks to skyrocketing tuition costs and cuts in state funding, the family income gap between families of public college and university students and the average American is growing closer to the family income gap that exists between private college and university students and the average American. According to a report released last week by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, entering freshman at four-year schools in 2005 came from families with a $74,000 parental median income.


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Colleges question utility of U.S. News & World Report rankings

Several colleges are questioning the value of U.S. News & World Report rankings and refusing to participate in the magazine's annual survey. A letter circulated by the non-profit organization Education Conservancy "calls into question the weight given to the prestige of an institution and the value that that ... plays in the actual education delivered to the students," according to David Muha, spokesperson for Drew University, a signatory of the letter. The U.S.


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Report finds national trend of tuition increases

According to the latest edition of a yearly report released by the National Center for Education Statistics, University students are not the only ones who have been coping with tuition increases in recent years -- this increase represents the national norm. "For undergraduates attending public four-year institutions," the report states, "there was a six-percent increase (after adjusting for inflation) in in-state tuition and required fees and a three-percent increase in out-of state tuition and required fees charged between 2004-05 and 2006-07." A similar increase in tuition also occurred at private, not-for-profit institutions, but with a smaller increase of five percent.


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$4.6 million grant to enable network security research

With $4.6 million in their pockets, a University-led team of researchers has just begun work on strengthening the Department of Defense's security systems. The five-year project, "Helix: A Self-Regenerative Architecture for the Incorruptible Enterprise," is backed by the Department of Defense's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative award.

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