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An Education in Saving on Textbooks

Every year students flock to the college bookstore to purchase the various textbooks that they require for their classes. Little do these students realize that, in doing so, they are throwing good money away. As unbelievable as it may seem textbooks, in some cases, actually cost as much, if not... Read More

Choose the Delivery Mode for your e-Learning Course

There are so many ways to deliver instruction online that the topic warrants its own lesson. In fact, deciding how you are going to deliver a course is critical to the way that you design and develop the course! Your first decision is whether or not you will deliver the... Read More

Building Interaction Into Your Online Course

You've already decided that you're ready to author online and you have your content organized. Now it's time to face the ultimate challenge in online learning - making it interactive! Interaction in online courses is a two-edged sword. On one hand you want students to participate. This enhances their learning... Read More

Distance Learning: Balancing Your Education and Busy Lifestyle

Distance Learning is a priority for most who have already set their lives out in one way or another in that their responsibilities have been laid out, and in quite a few cases, would not allow for regular College schedules. This is taken into consideration when looking for a place... Read More

Parents: Take the SAT Challenge!

I keep a box of tissues on the table where I tutor because, as an SAT tutor and college application consultant, I listen to high school juniors and seniors who are so overwhelmed by college pressure that they begin to cry. Not just girls. Not just Ivy League aspirants.High school... Read More

College Bound: The Organized Dorm

I can still remember my shopping list for my first dorm room. Years ago we kept it simple -- the must have storage staple was the old dairy crate and that was pretty much it. Those dairy crates organized everything from sweaters and sweatshirts to books. Today the storage choices... Read More

Business Plan Competitions

The idea of a business plan competition first started in the 1980's at the initiative of some MBA students from Texas and has increasingly gained popularity. Such events happen yearly and rejoice a great affluence of contestants, which highly increases their competitiveness.CompetitionsOrganized by Universities* Babcock Elevator Pitch Competition - Wake... Read More

Write Your Way Into University ? The Personal Statement

The Get Into Uni personal statement writing guide contains systematic instructions on the techniques to help increase the odds of your application, however this article contains a short synopsis to writing your way into university. For most potential students there are some clear reasons why they wish to embark on... Read More

College Tuition Costs are Spiralling

So, our children want to fly away from the nest and further their academic life in college. But with escalating costs, can we afford it? Will they have to take part time jobs to stay afloat or can we supplement their financial needs with college loans?These are just some of... Read More

Distance Learning, Online Education, Electronic Education, Electronic Learning?Call It What You Want

Whatever you want to label "learning at home" and however you want to define the latest buzz words for non-traditional education, you can find a program and method that suits your needs. Right now over 1.2 million people in the U.S. participate in some form of distance learning, with a... Read More

In The News:

Bloomberg
College admissions: How diversity factors in
Washington Post (blog)
By Valerie Strauss The Supreme Court just agreed to effectively consider whether affirmative action should be eliminated in college admissions via a case in which a white student claimed that she was denied admissions to the University of Texas because ...
Court Moves Up Clock on College Race Policies: Noah FeldmanBloomberg
Justices Will Review Racial Preference for CollegeBusiness 2 Community
Supreme Court will review racial preference in college admissions and ...Daily Camera
American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog) -NPR -National Center for Public Policy Research
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Chicago Tribune
What's Behind The Rise Of College Tuition?
Boise State Public Radio
Once a relatively affordable option for many families, the cost of attending public colleges and universities is getting out of reach. Host Rachel Martin talks to NPR education reporter Claudio Sanchez about the huge rise in public college tuition as ...
The Obama Deal: Harvard for $6700 a Year?Forbes
Can we keep colleges affordable?Chicago Tribune
Obama pitches controversial proposal to decrease cost of higher educationTufts Daily
News Chief -Purdue Exponent -Baltimore Sun
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MLive.com
Growing investments: Endowments on the rise at West Michigan colleges and ...
MLive.com
By Brian McVicar | bmcvicar@mlive.com Press File PhotoEndowments grew at colleges and universities throughout West Michigan, including Grand Valley State University. It's endowment climbed 22 percent, to $74.1 million, according to a study by the ...
Endowment Values Up at Hope College, GVSUWHTC

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USA TODAY
Minnesota-Duluth scolds students for chants to North Dakota
USA TODAY
Johnson said the university agrees that "inappropriate chants or cheers" have no place in college athletics and supports any "institution that works with its fans to bring some civility and focus on positive cheering." In his letter to students, ...

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GHC named a top military-friendly college
Rome News Tribune
by Georgia Highlands College reports Georgia Highlands College has been included in the 2012 Guide to America's Top Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities published by the Military Advanced Education Journal. GHC was listed as one of 300 ...

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Top Obama campaign brass embark on college tour
msnbc.com
The outreach events at 12 colleges and universities in 10 states over the next two months won't just entail some Facebook fan pages and the occasional celebrity drop-by. The Greater Together Summit Tour will include in-person policy discussions led by ...

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USA TODAY
George Huguely trial highlights alcohol abuse among college students
Washington Post
There's little question that George Huguely V, the former University of Virginia student on trial for murder, had a problem with alcohol. He had been arrested twice for drinking-related infractions, one of them violent, in his early 20s.
In Assigning Guilt in the Huguely Murder Case, Consider the Sins of the Father ...Washingtonian.com (blog)

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WLOS
Schools work to balance gay, religious rights
Wall Street Journal
The 2010 ruling touched on gay and religious rights on campus, and the tension is now at the center of a handful of disputes at colleges. A chapter of the Christian group InterVarsity at the University of Buffalo was temporarily suspended.
Christian Clubs Told to 'Stop Whining,' Meet in Homes Like in Communist ChinaChristian Post

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CTV.ca
Are three-year degrees the future for university students?
Hamilton Spectator
The proposals would get students through university or college faster — the report says college diplomas should be two years at most — cheaper, while still offering a quality education. “The ultimate goal of this strategy is to improve student choice ...
Ontario universities should offer three-year degrees, classes year-round and ...Toronto Star

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Central Arizona College, University of Arizona will ink transfer partnership ...
SanTanValley.com
Students attending Central Arizona College will seamlessly transfer to the University of Arizona to complete their bachelor's degrees in a variety of disciplines thanks to the Arizona Transfer Admissions Pathways (AZ-TAPs) partnership agreed upon by ...

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