Here are links to recent news
on college access and success.
on college access and success.
by
Joe Rottenborn
Executive Director, Mahoning Valley College Access Program (MVCAP)
1. Seeking Your Back-to-School Questions on Admissions, by Jacques Steinberg: http://nyti.ms/o0vwcR - "Readers of The Choice can submit questions for the authors’ consideration by using the comment box below. The answers will begin appearing on Monday and continue through Sept. 16."
2. St. Lawrence University: Study By SLU Profs Shows Students Get Higher Grades If Classes Start Earlier - http://bit.ly/oABsrf via AddThis - "She notes that while later class times predicted only slightly lower student grade-point averages, there is no question that later classes were associated with more drinking. Excessive alcohol consumption is the main negative influence on academic performance in college."
3. Is technology in the classroom a bust? by Davin McHenry - http://p.ost.im/p/eNqY7Q -"The New York Times ran a front-page piece this past weekend on the fact that test scores don’t seem to be getting a boost from the billions being spent on new technology in the classroom. The education-policy world has been all over the story, with some knocking The Times and reporter Matt Richtel. Others are saying the story is an important reminder that technology isn’t a cure-all."
4. Online Search Ads Hijack Prospective Students, Former Employee Says, by Josh Keller - http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/online-search-ads-hijack-prospective-students-former-employee-says/33047 - "The entire process was designed to redirect students who wanted information on a public college to a for-profit college, Mr. Soloway says. “The expectation was that we were not to allow a call to end with a student until we had created three private-school leads.”
5. Back to School and Deeper in Debt, by Arianna Huffington - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/back-to-school-and-deeper-in-debt_b_951205.html - "Increasingly, graduating from college no longer means putting your education to work for you -- it now means being a virtual indentured servant to your education. Instead of propelling you into the future, more and more it means trapping you in the past."
6. Check this video out -- Financial Aid 101 Part 1 - http://t.co/4quu1OP via @youtube
7. Which Assets Matter Most in Financial-Aid Formulas? by Cameron Huddleston - http://www.kiplinger.com/columns/kiptips/archives/which-assets-matter-most-in-financial-aid-formulas.html
8. 6 Ways Colleges Are Behaving Badly, by Lynn O'Shaughnessy: http://www.thecollegesolution.com/6-ways-colleges-are-behaving-badly/#.TmgY4tDDwio.twitter via @AddThis
9. RT @usnews: Should I Use The Common Application? - College Admissions Q&As (usnews.com) - http://t.usnews.com/b9DBF
10. Read The Joe Rottenborn Daily ▸ Today's top stories on college access and success via @rottenbornj ▸ http://t.co/x7cmxSo
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