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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

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1. Study: Graduation rates between blacks, whites widening - http://usat.ly/g32Jxk RT @USATODAY

"The graduation success rate for black players went from 58% to 60% this year among the 70 bowl teams. But for white players, the graduation rates increased from 77% last year to 80% this year."

2. Colleges take another look at merit-based aid, by Mary Beth Marklein - http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-03-14-merit-aid_N.htm?csp=hf

‎"For small regional colleges that struggle just to fill seats, merit aid can be an important revenue-builder because many recipients still pay enough tuition dollars over and above the scholarship amount to keep the institution running. But for rankings-conscious schools in between, merit aid has served primarily as a tool to recruit top students and to improve their academic profiles. "They're trying to buy students," says Skidmore College economist Sandy Baum."

3. Somehow, the Age on My Driver's License Says It's Time for College, by Jessica Ray - http://nyti.ms/f10e22

‎"For me, the most difficult part of this process is the brutal variation in its tempo. One moment, I’m frenetically writing, rereading, editing, and coercing my friends into checking my applications, and the next, I find myself contemplating a five-month gap with no action and, worse, no news whatsoever."

4. Thinking of College as a Tattoo, a Decision Not Easily Erased, by Sophia Gimenez - http://nyti.ms/eVyxNx

"Choosing a college is like choosing a tattoo. As with body art, you want an institution that is authentically you and, at the same time, one that allows you to flaunt all of your best attributes to the world. When searching for a tattoo (or a college) you must, if necessary, exhaust yourself looking for the perfect fit because a flop now is a flop forever — with regret etched everlastingly onto your skin."

5. Cherry Creek High: Six Seniors Blog Their College Quest, by Jacques Steinberg - http://nyti.ms/ijqPkG

‎"There, I have asked six seniors at Cherry Creek High, an idyllic-sounding public school in the small suburb of Greenwood Village, to write an occasional series of first-person essays for this blog about their college application process."

6. The Certificate Solution, by Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/feMdkS

"The report, issued by Complete College America and prepared by FutureWorks, argues that it may be more viable for many Americans with limited time to earn a certificate than to earn a college degree. And the report notes that while those who take some courses toward a degree but do not finish are unlikely to gain much economically from their efforts, there is substantial evidence that certificates do advance people economically."

7. The Completion Shortfall Complete College America - http://t.co/ybOFn0S

‎"To name only a few of the many reasons: inadequate academic preparation, poorly designed and delivered remediation, broken credit transfer policies, confusing financial aid programs, a culture that rewards enrollment instead of completion, and a system too often out of touch with the needs of the today’s college student."

8. Graduation Rates Between Blacks, Whites Widening, by Antonio Gonzalez - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/06/grad-rates-between-blacks_n_792687.html

"The growing gap is and has been my biggest concern with graduations rates for some time," he said. "It's like in the economy if income for Latinos and African-American grows at 2 percent but increases 3 percent for whites. Yes, it's getting better. But it's still not great for everybody."


"The jobless rate for Americans with at least a bachelor's degree rose to 5.1%, the highest since 1970 when records were first kept, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. October's 4.7% rate was up from 4.4% in September. Meanwhile, the national unemployment rate last month rose to 9.8% from 9.6%."

10. Getting Ready for the FAFSA, by Lynn O'Shaughnessy - http://t.co/z7n9MUO

"You can’t begin filling out the FAFSA application until Jan. 1, but there are some things you can do now to get a head start on the financial aid process."

11. Study: Most Students Fail to Meet Common-Standards Bar, by Catherine Gewertz - http://t.co/hugFRFg via @educationweek

"The resulting profile is one of a student body largely unprepared for the common standards. The problem was worse in mathematics than in English/language arts, and worse for racial and ethnic minority students than for their white peers."

12. More college students taking degree programs online, by Kara Spak - Chicago Sun-Times: http://bit.ly/dOtcjB

‎"Nearly 30 percent of all higher education students take at least one class online. More than 60 percent of chief academic officers said that online education was critical to their long-term strategy, according to a Sloan Consortium report, "Class Differences, Online Education in the United States, 2010." In autumn 2002, 1.6 million students were taking an online class. That number jumped to nearly 4 million in fall 2007, the group reported.
And in the past two years, the dismal economy pushed even more students into online classes. Universities responded to meet the demand.
More than 5.6 million students were taking at least one online class in 2009, an increase of nearly 1 million students from 2008, the report said."

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