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Qualcomm founder gives $133M to NYC tech school

A burgeoning graduate school aimed at reinventing higher education's relationship with high tech is getting a $133 million gift from a professor-turned-entrepreneur who used his engineering background to help build a major telecommunications company, officials announced Monday. Full story

Graduate schools stung by drop in Chinese applications

(Reuters) - Slowing graduate-school enrollments, including a 5 percent decline in applications from China for fall 2013, are hurting the revenues of many U.S. universities, Moody's Investors Service said on Friday. Full story

Grad student among Boston Marathon blast victims

  Boston University confirms a Chinese national graduate student was the third fatality in the attack at the city marathon. WHDH’s Adam Harding reports.

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Richard Wolff, professor at the New School’s graduate program on international affairs; Heather McGhee, vice president of Demos; Karl Smith, professor at The University of North Carolina; and Saket Soni, director of the National Guestworker Alliance; join Up host Chris Hayes and discuss how many com

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