296. Summer College News

Here are some links to today's stories
about college access and success.
by
Joe Rottenborn
Executive Director, Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP)

1. Read The Joe Rottenborn Daily ▸ today's top stories on college access and success via @rottenbornj ▸ http://t.co/UftEiOc

2. ROTCs return to Ivy League, by Jim Michaels - http://t.co/cHv2lFV via @USATODAY - "Since the Pentagon last year repealed "Don't ask, don't tell," that argument was nullified and anti-ROTC campuses have become more receptive to the military. The Navy has reached agreements with Yale, Harvard and Columbia to establish programs on their campuses."

3. Students, seniors may feel impact of debt deal, by Sandra Block - http://t.co/L0pf2Jb via @USATODAY - "Interest on federally subsidized student loans for graduate students will accrue while students are in school. Currently, interest on doesn't begin to accrue until they graduate. The change will take effect on July 1, 2012, says Justin Draeger, a spokesman for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.In addition, the deal will eliminate on-time repayment incentives for all federal student loans, effective July 1, 2012. Currently, federal Stafford loan borrowers who make 12 consecutive on-time payments are eligible for a rebate of 0.5% of the loan amount, which is applied to the 1% repayment fee."

4. 'Uneducated Guesses' by Scott Jaschik - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/r8WeGA - "Between 2001 and 2009, the passing rate on AP exams fell from 60.8 to 56.5 percent -- as the number of students who took an AP exam increased from 17 percent to 26 percent of the public high school population. As the critical articles noted, however, some high schools had very low pass rates, while others had very high rates."

5. 12 Things College Freshmen Should Be Doing Now, by Lynn O'Shaughnessy - http://t.co/bQJXedk via @cbsmoneywatch - "Are you heading to college for the first time later this month? If so, it’s important to start getting prepared. Here are 12 things that you should be doing now:"

6. Statistics Show More Grandparents Caring for Grandchildren, by Sarah D. Sparks - http://t.co/kCijOX9 via @educationweek - "As of 2005, the most recent data, grandparents cared for 13.8 percent of preschoolers—more than Head Start, day-care centers, and nursery schools combined. They also provided care for 12.8 percent of all school-age children ages 5 to 14. The Census Bureau found the average time children spent in their grandparents’ care also increased, from 13 hours a week in 2005 to 14 to 16 hours per week in 2006."

7. Debt Deal May Offer Only Temporary Reprieve for Student-Aid Programs, by Kelly Field - http://chronicle.com/article/Debt-Deal-May-Offer-Only/128468/ - "It also provides $17-billion over two years to shore up the Pell Grant program, which has doubled in cost over the past three years and faces a multibillion-dollar deficit.By closing most of that gap, the deal makes it easier for appropriators to maintain the maximum award at $5,550 in 2012 without slashing other programs. But the reprieve comes at a cost and is likely to be temporary. To pay for Pell Grants, the deal will end subsidies for interest on graduate students' loans while they are still in school, while eliminating the interest-rate reduction for on-time loan repayment for all borrowers."

8. Stone-Cold Sober Schools: Princeton Review List - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/stone-cold-sober-schools-_n_916935.html#s321095&title=Brigham_Young_University Which area college made this list? - "Not all colleges have parties where students do keg-stands with abandon. According to the Princeton Review, the schools listed below are the most stone-cold sober in the country."

9. Schools With The Happiest Students: Princeton Review List - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/02/happiest-students_n_915868.html#s320143&title=Rice_University - "Happiness and an academic setting don't have to be mutually exclusive, at least according to the Princeton Review. The Review surveyed more than 122,000 students nationwide on everything from party habits to study habits. See below for the schools where students maintain a rosy outlook."

10. Solving achievement gap will take innovation, Harvard professor says, by Erin Albanese MLive.com - http://t.co/sJaKfu1 - "The U.S. is failing to prepare large numbers of young people to succeed in the 21st century economy, he said. The goal is to increase learning for white children and even more quickly increase that for blacks and Hispanics who are further behind.“Nationally, it’s in our interest for all groups of students to reach their full potential,” he said."

11. The Top 10 U.S. Colleges for Financial Aid, By Sheryl Nance-Nash: http://srph.it/qufAsZ http://t.co/SAL3ycl via @AOL - "The company considered how many students received aid compared to the number of students who needed it, how much of their financial needs were met and how many students received all the aid they needed, as well as how satisfied students said they were with their awards."