August 2007 - Posts
Earlier today, we posted the Mindset List for today’s college freshmen, an interesting look at their experiences and benchmark events. Now, we are pleased to report that today’s college grads are volunteering more than any previous generation. Influenced
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Humanities Professor Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief of Beloit College in Wisconsin have released their tenth annual Mindset List for the class of 2011. The "Class of 2011" refers to students entering college this year. They are generally
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Thanks to the demand for college degreed employees and the Internet, hundreds of non-existent schools are selling bogus degrees, while others sell exact replicas of degrees from real colleges. These “diploma mills” have some of the most sophisticated,
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According to the National Retail Federation, students and their parents will spend a combined average of nearly $1,000 per student on back to college merchandise totaling $5.43 billion, up from $3.82 billion last year. Housing directors all over the country
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An excellent choice for many college graduates and especially those who are entering graduate school this fall is to consolidate their loans before they enroll. Recent legislation to reduce lender subsidies means many of the borrower discounts lenders
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Personal information such as names, Social Security numbers, and home and e-mail addresses of nearly 5,200 student loan customers were on a stolen laptop computer according to the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency. Investigators do not believe
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It can be overwhelming. New college grads are tasked with finding a job, paying back student loans, finding transportation and a place to live. It’s no wonder that almost two out of every five recent college grads are without health insurance during some
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Democratic Presidential candidate and Senator Chris Dodd has a plan to increase college accessibility: free community college. Free…if states pony up half the cost. Dodd’s plan calls for the federal government to work with states to subsidize in-state
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