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Calling all Procrastinators…

There is still time for procrastinators to consolidate their student loans before the clock strikes twelve on June 30, 2007. That’s when interest rates on existing, variable-rate federal student loans will jump 0.08 percent raising the rates from 6.54 Read More...

Gen-Y: Eroding Attention Spans, Or Just Better at Multi-Tasking?

There’s been a lot of press lately about the short attention span of Gen-Y after Alan Mirabelli, Executive Director at the Vanier Institute of the Family in Ottawa, recommended that schools and Universities should ban cell phones. According to Mirabelli, Read More...

Student Googles Himself and finds Social Security Number

According to the Associated Press, A community college student in a Sacramento area community college district Googled himself and was surprised to find his Social Security number. Susie Williams, a spokesperson for the Los Rios Community College District Read More...

How NOT to Get Into College

It is unclear whether this Ferris Bueller wannabe was doing it for profit, power or to improve his own GPA, but a high school class president in Cooper City, Florida was arrested for felony computer fraud after using his access to the school district's Read More...

Is Personal Student Info Safe?

A recently released study based on a survey of higher education IT directors raises serious concerns about the security of personal student information. 58% of those surveyed reported that they experienced at least one IT security incident in the past Read More...