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The study found that, contrary to stereotype, teens as a group are not as adept as adults in navigating the Web.

BYU ranked 30th among U.S. schools but was in the top 10 in North America for salary increases.

"We always need more sponsors,"

University of Montana-Western is believed to be the first public school to offer the model. Three private schools in the country are known to offer this type of scheduling.

"We hire the best people wherever they are located, and increasingly that is outside of the United States,"

Each of the feature articles in this report highlights the accomplishments of people or organizations made possible in large part through private philanthropy. Any president serving a University blessed with such deep and generous support will trumpet the positive effects in the annual report.

Around the country, innovative community colleges are playing a role in helping low-skilled adults gain the skills and credentials to succeed in good jobs.

For the business community, education is more than just a local issue that compels otherwise mild mannered people to run for the school board. It is, above all else, the source of its future work force, and how well that district performs will go a long way in determining whether that company will remain in that city — or if it even remains in business at all.

Those facts "make me incredibly proud of our students and staff," says Linda Hyman, vice provost of MSU’s Division of Health Sciences. "By any way of looking at the data, 83 percent is very good and much better than the national average."

"We are very connected to the land and the resources around us. Our society is built on that. Our sense of space is what drives us, as opposed to the sense of time that drives Western societies.

"There’s a contingent of very talented and intelligent people within American Indian communities. They bring a diverse knowledge of who they are. They can make great students of science, if opportunities were provided."