See free MVCAP e-books on college admissions and financial aid for sharing, printing, and downloading at our online resource library: http://issuu.com/mvcap1. Proofread That Application, Unless You Want to be ‘Excepted’ - http://nyti.ms/9IajET
"Take a few minutes to proofread. Applications that are sent electronically don’t permit students to unseal the envelope and take one last look on the way to the post office. Admissions offices see files littered with misspellings, grammatical mistakes and poor word choice. Students rely too much on programs that purport to check spelling and sentence structure."
2. Revolving Door - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/crJO31
“For a while now there has been a trend of hires by for-profit providers in regulatory affairs roles with significant public sector experience -- whether it is working for the Department of Education, an accrediting body or outside counsel,” he said in an e-mail. “Given that these positions have only become more crucial to ensure future growth (or in some cases, survival), it makes sense to hire these type of people who ‘speak the same language’ and know many of the players they need to deal with.” In late September, Career Education hired Walter Pryor, who worked as a principal and general counsel at the Podesta Group, a powerhouse lobbying firm, to be vice president of government affairs. The hires at for-profit institutions reach beyond the realm of lobbying. Two academic leaders just hired at career colleges have deep roots in nonprofit higher education."
3. The Real Cost Equation - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/bFzBI4
"Since 1981, the list price tuition and fees charged by American four-year colleges and universities (public and private together) has risen at an annual rate of 7.1 percent. Room and board has gone up 5.3 percent per year. Overall inflation has averaged only 3.2 percent. These differences have fueled an increasingly acrimonious public debate over the causes and consequences of the rising cost of college attendance. At some risk of oversimplification, most of those who write on higher education start from the proposition that the causes of rising college cost are to be found by examining higher education with a fine-toothed comb. What they find isn’t pretty. They see dysfunctional universities in an increasingly dysfunctional higher education system. From there, the descent into apocalyptic rhetoric is easy. As a recent editorial in the Economist says, “America’s universities lost their way badly in the era of easy money. If they do not find it again, they may go the way of GM.”
4. The Making of Corporate U.: How we got here http://chronicle.com/article/The-Making-of-Corporate-U/124913/
"By the last decades of the 20th century, colleges had achieved a monopoly as the licensing agencies for Americans who wanted to improve their employment prospects. Every occupation sought to raise its prestige and income by making a college degree (and beyond) the requirement for entry. As the job market for those without college deteriorated into dead-end work at fast-food franchises, continuing one's education became a necessity. The seemingly insatiable demand to attend college, the availability of government and private money with which to do so, and the desire of every state and local community to have its own college or university made it easy for higher education to charge what the traffic would bear. In the 1980s, tuition so substantially outpaced inflation and the growth rate of median family income that higher education looked like yet another greedy industry."
"By the last decades of the 20th century, colleges had achieved a monopoly as the licensing agencies for Americans who wanted to improve their employment prospects. Every occupation sought to raise its prestige and income by making a college degree (and beyond) the requirement for entry. As the job market for those without college deteriorated into dead-end work at fast-food franchises, continuing one's education became a necessity. The seemingly insatiable demand to attend college, the availability of government and private money with which to do so, and the desire of every state and local community to have its own college or university made it easy for higher education to charge what the traffic would bear. In the 1980s, tuition so substantially outpaced inflation and the growth rate of median family income that higher education looked like yet another greedy industry."
5. The Future of Wannabe U.: How the accountability regime leads us astray http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-of-Wannabe-U/124917/
"Here's how one Wan U. professor explained it to me: "It's like the students are being processed the way you process hot dogs. You take raw material, and you put it on an assembly line. You check for defective hot dogs. Almost all the hot dogs are good. When one is defective, you ask how to change the process. You don't try to figure out what went wrong with the raw materials you were assembling. Not with this kind of continuous quality control." That kind of evaluation does not even pretend to ask questions about a student's preparation, class attendance, or study habits—in short, what the student is like as a student. The analogy to the processing of hot dogs (or TV's or cars) also reminds us that administrators are assuming control of the curriculum, for managers set the standards for the assembly line. They decide how work is to be done. Student-outcomes assessment announces the existence of an audit culture that has run amok and become an accountability regime."
6. The Corporate Analogy Unravels http://chronicle.com/article/Farewell-to-the-Corporate/124919/
"Admittedly, there is a pile of evidence to support the idea that universities have gone corporate. The casualization of the academic work force is the most obvious—arguably, the loss of professional job security has occurred at a rate faster than in any other occupational sector. The polarization in salaries is another example of marketization: The ratio of executive compensation to the pay of the average adjunct instructor bears comparison with that in most top-down corporations. So too have universities, like corporations, gone offshore, cutting costs, spreading assets, and polishing their brands in "emerging markets." The shift in attention and funds toward commercially relevant fields has also been quite pronounced, and the production of a jumbo pool of student debt has made universities into vehicles, if not instruments, for bankers' profits. Some of the most delicious water-cooler tales emphasize how our administrators are adopting managerial techniques from corporate America."
7. State Financial Aid & Ohio Student Financial Literacy http://www.ohiocan.org/RenderMedia.axd?i=po07DIuq0RXS4LHQu5cNriC99n1KNdWkIUy67ciFGDEujWlwuTGYOg--
"According to the Ohio Board of Regents, the average tuition at Ohio public universities rose by 76 percent between 1993 and 2002. At the same time, the average Pell Grant and average Ohio Instructional Grant awards rose by 43 percent and 76 percent, respectively. However, at Ohio’s main university campuses, less than 50 percent of students on each campus receive state financial aid. At these campuses, 57 percent of students, on average, must still borrow federal funds. What is also important to keep in mind in terms of financial aid for students and families is that Ohio per capita income only rose by approximately41 percent during while the average tuition rose almost twofold. With this in mind, it is not surprising that the most recent “Measuring Up” report by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education gave Ohio an “F” in affordability."
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