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Showing posts with label career paths. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

184. MVCAP fyi

See free MVCAP e-books on college admissions and financial aid for sharing, printing, and downloading at our online resource library: http://issuu.com/mvcap

1. How federal spending cuts trickle down to you, by Charles Riley - http://t.co/G8Pf7VK via @CNNMoney

"Take, for example, the Department of Education. It made $36 billion in grants and other payments to states in fiscal year 2008 -- before the Recovery Act kicked in -- according to the Census Bureau. . . . Once the funds make their way from the Education Department to state and local governments, they are used to fund special education, vocational, English language acquisition and adult literacy programs."

2. High Enrollers, by Steve Holowich - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/hpanE4

"In fall 2009, during one of the most devastating years of the current financial crisis, 7.1 percent more students enrolled in college than had the previous fall, according to data released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). And while all types of institutions -- public, private nonprofit, and private for-profit -- saw a bump, for-profit institutions easily outpaced the other sectors, growing their rolls by nearly 25 percent and their revenues by 21 percent, the federal study found."

3. Slip-Sliding Away: An Anxious Public Talks about Today's Economy and the American Dream - http://j.mp/gJnRS0

"Not surprisingly, the struggling are dramatically more worried about their financial well-being. Fully 77 percent of the struggling who are also parents say they're "very worried" about paying for their child's college education."

4. Honesty on Application Essays, by Scott Anderson - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/egYvh9

"When I received Dean Blackburn’s invitation to join the university’s first-year class, what I could not see was the unwritten acknowledgment hidden between the lines of his gracious welcome: I was admitted in spite of my writing, not because of it."

5. Pathways To Prosperity Report: Students Need More Paths To Career Success - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/02/pathways-to-prosperity-re_n_817374.html

‎"What I fear is the continuing problem of too many kids dropping by the wayside and the other problem of kids going into debt, and going into college but not completing with a degree or certificate," said Robert Schwartz, who heads the project and is academic dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education."


"Below, check out the top five colleges and universities in the large, medium and small categories, and see how many of their grads are currently serving. The Peace Corps (PDF) has additional rankings. Did your school make the cut? Let us know in the comments section."

7. 25 Universities With the Worst Graduation Rates, by Lynn O'Shaughnessy - http://t.co/5M61cEC

"I’d argue that what these schools do excel at is producing students who end up leaving college with no degree, but lots of student debt and that’s disgraceful."

8. One College Applicant Puts Her Testing Gripes On Film, by Eric Hoover: http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/one-college-applicant-puts-her-testing-gripes-on-film/27821

"Mr. Kauffmann says he and his daughter hope the film will convince students and parents that admissions entrance exams are “unfair, biased, and illogical.” To that end, the Kauffmanns have started an online petition urging colleges to stop using the ACT and SAT."

9. What the NFL Can Teach Teachers, by Andrew J. Rotherham - reading from @time Super Bowl School: http://bit.ly/glOXDo

"We evaluate everything. When we start training camp, we watch every practice with the players, and at the end of the day, we give a numeric grade to each player, so two practices a day means two grades. During the regular season, we don't grade practice but grade every play of every game. We grade on technique, and we grade on production. Players have each other's grades in front of them as we go through this."

10. 8 subtle ways to prepare middle schoolers for college, by Jay Mathews - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2011/02/8_sneaky_ways_to_ready_middle.html

‎"I have asked several college admissions and education experts about positive steps that middle-school parents can take. Some of the ideas don’t sound like college prep at all, but they are. If you help a preteen get ready for life, there will be some preparation for college in there somewhere. Here are eight suggestions:"





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Thursday, January 13, 2011

169. MVCAP fyi

See free MVCAP e-books on college admissions and financial aid for sharing, printing, and downloading at our online resource library: http://issuu.com/mvcap

1. Part 2: Answers to Readers’ Questions on Financial Aid, by Mark Kantrowitz - http://nyti.ms/eCJTTm

"Colleges do have flexibility in how they reduce the aid package. Some colleges will substitute the scholarship for their own grant funds, yielding no net financial benefit to the student. Other colleges will let the scholarship replace the loans, effectively reducing the out-of-pocket cost to the student. How the college reduces the need-based aid package will be specified in the college’s outside scholarship policy."

2. Gunning for the GAO, by Doug Lederman - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/f02H1O

"The report -- commissioned and released by the Coalition for Educational Success and conducted by the consulting firm Norton/Norris, which conducts its own "mystery shopper" reviews for what its principals say is a mix of for-profit and nonprofit colleges -- documents what its authors say are dozens of misrepresentations by the government agency that when taken together, they assert, seriously undermine its conclusions."

3. A Program Is Not a Plan, by John N. Gardner and Andrew K. Koch - Inside Higher Ed: http://bit.ly/dRCCXz

"Simply stated, higher education institutions in the United States focus heavily on student success programs, but rarely do they have a comprehensive plan to guide those programs. In the absence of a plan, redundancies and gaps occur, and retention stagnates. In short, a program or programs do not a successful plan make."

4. Tense time for workers, as career paths fade away, by Rick Hampson - http://usat.ly/gHOPfN - RT @USATODAY

"Although most economists expect the U.S. job market to register at least small gains this year, many Americans who have a job still fear losing it. Many who don't have a job fear they never will find one. And many in both camps worry that the recession, which officially ended a year and a half ago, speeded up inevitable changes in the workplace."


‎"The university and other for-profit colleges have recently faced increasing government and media scrutiny, due in large part to high student loan default rates, nefarious recruiting practices and low graduation rates. The average for-profit college graduation rate is 22 percent."

6. Dartmouth College, University of Chicago Get Record Undergrad Applications, by Janet Lorin - http://t.co/OmHcoNB via @BloombergNow

"Dartmouth’s total for the next academic year rose 16 percent to more than 21,700, from 18,778 a year earlier, Maria Laskaris, dean of admissions and financial aid, said today in a statement. Chicago’s total increased 12 percent to 21,669, from 19,374 a year earlier. . . ."

7. Tucson Shootings Suspect Worried College Officials, by Marc Lacey and Serge F. Kovaleski - http://nyti.ms/gndwj8

"Over all, there were seven contacts between Mr. Loughner and campus police in seven months, including two in one week. He clearly was on the radar screen of the authorities, though the documents suggest that they were uncertain how much of a threat he might be, or unclear on how to respond to him."

8. Dealing With Mental Disorders on Campus - Room for Debate - http://nyti.ms/i4alvb

"What are colleges to do with mentally disturbed students, given limited budgets and resources? What is the extent of a college's responsibility for keeping track of thousands of students, who may not be living on campus?"

9. For-Profits Break Monopoly on What College Can Be, by Peter Wood - http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/for-profit-colleges-on-the-brink-part-4/28299

"The deep value of for-profit education is that it breaks the practical monopoly on what a college can be."

10. Second-guessing red flags, action taken in Tucson case, by Mary Beth Marklein and Brad Heath - http://usat.ly/e0YWp1 - RT @USATODAY

‎"The college suspended Loughner last year for classroom and library disruptions, according to a statement from the school. Officials briefed his parents, and told Loughner to come back only after a mental health professional had assessed that he was not a danger to himself or others. After that, "there was no further college contact with Loughner," the college says."

11. Jared L. Loughner's Troubles at Pima Community College - http://documents.nytimes.com/jared-loughner-pima-community-college-documents?ref=us

Pima Community College released 51 pages of public safety reports and documents related to Jared L. Loughner, the former student charged with the mass shooting in Tucson."

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