The Afghan government is actively planning for the country's first private university. The American University of Afghanistan is to be American-style, with English-language instruction and mainly American professors. It is to open as an undergraduate institution, with graduate programs in the future. The Afghan Ministry of Higher Education has contracted an American organization for expertise on foreign institution building and is obtaining U.S. government funds. There will be a 10-month feasibility study from this summer, with the university slated to open shortly thereafter.
Presents information on Pitágoras College owned by Apollo International and Pitágoras Group in Brazil. Number of students enrolled in the college; List of disciplines offered by the institution; Teaching methodology used by the college.
Four presidents of private universities were paid more than $800,000 last year, and the era of the million-dollar college president is fast approaching, according to an annual survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Two private institutions are contemplating a merger. Officials of Chapman University and Western University of Health Sciences, both located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area...
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