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Is Online Learning the Solution?The need for reform is at the top of many lists detailing current issues related to higher education. Concerns about ensuring quality and access, as well as funding and career preparation are all …
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Swanky Dorms Are Coming to a School Near You
If a cramped room lined with cinderblock walls and a messy roommate is not your idea of living large, how about a scenic river view, private bathroom, and common room lined with flat screen televisions? If the latter sounds more like your kind of establishment, then you will need to get in line behind the hundreds of college students looking to shoulder their way into the swankiest dorms on campus. The beds are still at that awkward twin extra-long size, but students living in the ritzy new residential halls popping up on school grounds everywhere have enough amenities to more than make up for that. The subpar dorm room standards that have been the butt of many jokes and served …
Summer Jobs Are Beneficial to College Kids
If you're a college student, chances are you're broke. The little bit of money you manage to scrape up is used on Ramen Noodles dinners and cheap beer. Who can afford anything else? With the cost of tuition, room and board these days, it's difficult enough just to stay enrolled. According to the College Board, the average yearly cost of four-year in-state public colleges in 2009-10 totaled $7,020. Private colleges charged more than three times that amount on average, asking for $26,273 from their students. Room and board adds at least several thousand more dollars, and the cost of textbooks regularly reaches $1,000 per semester. So how do you deal with the financial pinch? Get a job – a summer …
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The Road to Online Colleges
Online education is a way of life for many of us now: we are used to the beaming billboards on the side of the road, and the constant barrage of political figures who either love the for-profit schools or hate them. Regardless of this fact, online colleges are here to stay, but many of us are left wondering how they came to be. We know that the internet has been the main figure in developing online institutions, but how did the previous for-profit institutions develop so many years ago? The road to online schools has developed as a result of H.B. Stratton and P.R. Bryant’s foresight in the 1850s in developing a school where students could learn lesser trades, such …
