She undertook intensive tuition in mathematics and enrolled at MIT in 1901 as a special student, one of four women enrolled on the architecture course and one of two studying landscape architecture.
The Board of Education has awarded the Queens College Division of Education a five-year, $1.25 million contract that will enable teachers in Queens middle schools who are not certified in mathematics to enroll in a tuition-free one-year program.
Private foundations are financing such a program at Queens College, where students receive free tuition for entering a mathematics teacher preparation program.
The communal colleges, established by municipalities or individuals and maintained by tuition fees, offered a partial lycée curriculum, featuring Latin, French, mathematics, history, and geography.
"This will cover an entire year's tuition, plus some book money," notes William Velez, a professor of mathematics at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which has received one of the grants.
A student goes online (chicagosummeroflearning.org) and explores a menu of largely tuition-free opportunities in science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
Florida is the latest state to propose offering incentives for college students toward "high demand" majors, including STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and health care fields ("To Steer Students Toward Jobs, Florida May Cut Tuition for Select Majors," news article, Dec. 10).
The lycées, maintained by tuition fees and state scholarships, taught the ancient languages, rhetoric, logic, ethics, mathematics, and physical science.
Tailored Tuition On the academic side, the school offered specially-tailored tuition in Mathematics and Physics which helped Muhamed to make up for the classes he had missed while he was in Germany.
When he discovered that tuition at the University of California, Berkeley, would cost only $52 a year, McNamara enrolled for courses in economics, mathematics and philosophy.
