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College - Larger Picture
College students rally over tuition, education quality
USA Today - Mar 3, 2010
College students on more than 100 campuses nationwide plan walkouts, rallies and other actions Thursday to protest budget cuts, layoffs and tuition increases, which they say erode quality of education and limit access...
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Public college tuitions spike 15%, even 30%
CNNMoney.com - Feb 24, 2010
New York (CNNMoney.com) -- Tuition at many public colleges and universities is skyrocketing, thanks to state budget deficits that have choked off funding for higher education. ...
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Honors Colleges: Small Liberal Arts Programs Within Big Public Universities
New York Times - The Choice - Mar 1, 2010
On its Web site, The Chronicle of Higher Education examines the concept of honors colleges, in which big public research universities set aside dedicated classroom and housing space within their walls for programs on the scale of small liberal arts colleges...
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Obama focuses on school dropouts
The Associated Press - Mar 1, 2010
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is offering $900 million in grants to states and school districts to turn around low-performing schools — but recipients would have to take drastic action, such as replacing principals, reopening schools as charter schools or closing them outright....
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College Admissions Process/Strategies
More high-schoolers reinvent or skip their senior year
USA Today - Feb 25, 2010
When Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars unveiled a cost-cutting measure this month that would have made the high school senior year optional, perhaps no one in the state Capitol Building was more surprised than 18-year-old Jake Trimble,...
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Waiting
For seniors, March is most anxious month
Washington Post - Mar 1, 2010
March is the only month that is longer than 31 days. It’s a fact. Ask almost any high school senior who has applied to college; he or she will tell you that March is the longest month of the year...
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Tense weeks for college hopefuls
Albany Times Union - - Feb 24, 2010
Kate McCarty opened her mailbox to find an envelope from The College of William & Mary. It was thin. "I was literally crushed," the Tamarac High School senior said about the letter that day in December that rejected her for early-decision admission....
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College Admissions - Guidance Counselors
Bad Advice, No Advice
Inside Higher Ed - Mar 3, 2010
The counseling that students receive in high school isn't effective in helping them enroll in college, according to a national survey released today...
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Parents
Parents have several roles on campus visits
CharlotteObserver.com - Mar 1, 2010
It's almost time for spring break season. For many high school juniors that will mean loading up the minivan and heading out to visit college campuses...
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College Corner: Avoiding March Madness
The Associated Press - Feb 28, 2010
This time of year offers parents a specific opportunity to encourage this life skill because high school students who will be sophomores, juniors or seniors next year are now meeting with their guidance counselors to discuss their fall schedules...
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Colleges enlist parents to curb problem drinking
The Associated Press - Feb 28, 2010
At Virginia Tech, where tailgating and raucous apartment complex parties are time-honored rituals, university officials are turning increasingly to Mom and Dad to curb problem underage drinking...
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Campus Visits and Fairs
College Campus Visits This Spring Semester
Auburn Journal - Mar 1, 2010
For high school sophomores and juniors, visiting colleges this spring is a great way to get a head start on the college admissions process. One of the best times to visit is during spring break; ...
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Picking the perfect college
MassLive.com - Mar 2, 2010
It is not fair season agriculturally speaking but it is academically with the Springfield National College Fair scheduled March 7 from noon to 4 p.m. and March 8 from 9 a.m. to noon in the Young Building on the grounds of the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield...
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College Recruitment
Harvard: Home or Hogwarts
Harvard Crimson - Mar 3, 2010
A couple months ago, high school senior Lauren Edelson penned a much-read New York Times op-ed decrying the misuse of sales strategies in college admissions outreach at Harvard, Boston college, Middlebury and others, specifically naming the tendency to liken one’s school to Hogwarts. ...
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At Penn, gay students help recruit gay applicants
USA Today - Mar 1, 2010
At many colleges, it's a standard part of the recruiting process once applicants are admitted. Current students who share individual traits or academic interests help reach out to prospective students with similar backgrounds or interests...
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Welcome to College Admissions World, where YouTube is cutting edge
The Phoenix (blog) - Feb 28, 2010
Legally Blonde is a way smarter movie than anyone gives it credit. When Reese Witherspoon’s ultra-ditzy, fashion-obsessed character woos the admissions officers at Harvard Law School with a home video in which she prances around in a bikini, she’s really just making a preemptive and highly savvy parody of what’s happening at Tufts this year...
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FinAid - Scholarships
7 Myths About Financial Aid
CBS News MoneyWatch - Mar 2, 2010
We’re in the thick of the dreaded college financial-aid season (some states have early-March deadlines), so this is an ideal time to explode the seven biggest myths about aid..
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6 Last-Minute Tips for Financial Aid Applicants
SmartMoney - Mar 3, 2010
Over the next few days or weeks, many students will be making sure they're filing the required paperwork accurately and on time — two factors that can be just as important as the academic application itself...
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Lowering the cost of college
The Boston Globe - Feb 26, 2010
In a few weeks high school students across the country will start receiving acceptance letters from the colleges to which they’ve applied. Hopefully your student will get into the school of his or her dreams...
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FaceBook
Idiocy in the age of Facebook
New York Post - Feb 28, 2010
A 2009 study concluded that 45% of employers were checking social-networking sites before deciding whether to hire someone. That’s shocking: only 45%? (A similar study the previous year reported that only 22% of employers were checking. Note the trend, and how quickly it’s moving...
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Midwest
Ohio aims to boost college graduation rate
Columbus Dispatch - Mar 2, 2010
About half of all college students never graduate.
But Ohio has joined a new national initiative to dramatically increase the number of students who get their college degrees, state officials announced yesterday...
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More schools add online class options to traditional schedules
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Mar 2, 2010
When Lindsey Lecus heads to the library for her literature studies class at Fritsche Middle School, she checks the assignments posted by her teacher in Maine and may enter a discussion forum with a classmate in Switzerland....
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13% of seniors may miss out on high school diplomas
Star Tribune - Mar 2, 2010
More than 8,000 Minnesota high school seniors are in danger of not graduating this spring because they have not passed state tests that for the first time will be required for a diploma....
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House bans legislative scholarships but final approval uncertain
Star Tribune - Mar 3, 2010
SPRINGFIELD --- Illinois lawmakers would be banned from offering scholarships for public universities under a measure the House approved today to address concerns about the often-abused awards that have been distributed to relatives, ....
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Vocational Eduacation
Today's vocational ed training breaking the mold
Colfax Record - Feb 25, 2010
But these aren’t the vocational education classes of past generations. Traditional career courses like auto, wood and metal shop once focused on preparing students for careers as auto mechanics, cabinetmakers and machinists. Though still invaluable for careers in those fields, today’s courses utilize high-tech tools applicable to a far wider range of jobs and academics...
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