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The Truth Of A Two Year College Education | EdStimulus.org

Higher education in this country is rapidly becoming a necessity in the business community rather than a luxury. There was a time when those who.
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What your college counselor doesn’t know – Washington Post (blog)

What your college counselor doesn't know Washington Post (blog) The best part of my college admissions book, “Harvard Schmarvard,” was a list of the 100 most underappreciated colleges in the country, which I created by ... Get Books Alerts Huffington Post (blog) The Debt-Free Diploma NHPR all 5 news articles
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College roommate matching made easier

All over the country, college freshman are heading off to their new lives on campus with one big question in mind—what’s my roommate going to be like? More and more schools are taking the guesswork out of the process and letting students find their perfect match through websites like URoomSurf.com, Lifetopia and RoomBug. Here to talk about this trend is Peter Kerwin from the Rhode Island Higher ...
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New Iranian Crackdown Targets Humanities at Universities

Iran is focusing on the humanities in a new crackdown on the country's universities, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty reported. New limits will be placed on the number of students permitted to study the humanities, consistent with worries expressed by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that nearly two-thirds of Iranian university students are seeking degrees in the humanities. He said that the humanities promote "skepticism and doubt in religious principles and beliefs."
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Utah women falling behind in education

Students across the country are heading back to college. Nationally, more women than men attend post-high school schooling. But in Utah, women are falling behind men in education.
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Paying the Price (Inside Higher Ed)

"To deal with struggling economies and large budget cuts, governing boards all over the country are giving public institutions the authority to institute large tuition hikes, and many universities are taking the maximum allotment," Inside Higher Ed reports. "Disturbing as they may be to students and parents, tuition increases of this sort have become a familiar part of public higher education's boom and bust cycle, in which legislators and public college leaders respond to big budget cuts by jacking up tuition even higher."
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Harvard and Homelessness

A new book examines the only student-run homeless shelter in the country.
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The Humanities for Love, Not Money

Continuing education programs across the country are finding students increasingly focused on the arts and humanities, whether for new careers or to re-explore great authors.
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Students Plan "Gap Years" for More Than Break from College

While you’re unpacking a semester’s worth of your belongings in your shared dorm room , there are other recent high school graduates packing up for different adventures— volunteer experiences abroad, internships across the country, or backpacking trips through Europe. These students are taking a “gap year,” or time off from the traditional college experience. The gap year is a popular option in Europe, where students opt out of university-level coursework in favor of experiences they feel will make them wiser and more independent. But the idea has also grown in popularity in the United States.
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Why So Serious? Course Promotes Laughter as More Than Best Medicine

There hasn’t been much to laugh about at many schools across the country, what with budget cuts and creative cost-saving measures affecting course offerings and faculty positions. At one North Carolina community college , however, a new course is teaching students how to chuckle, giggle and guffaw, no matter how they feel about the state of affairs outside of the classroom. While the class is targeted at retirees—the noncredit eight-week “Laughter in the Sandhills” is put on by Sandhills Community College’s Center for Creative Retirement—it’s a good example of the kinds of offerings you may not know existed as you focus your attentions instead on the general education requirements in your course catalog. This class is taught by a “certified laughter coach,” according to an article about it in The Fayetteville Observer , and focuses on the positive health benefits behind a good laugh and the right and wrong way to let out a chortle.
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