Time running out to sign kids up for Savannah-Chatham police summer camp The initiative is designed to provide youngsters with alternatives to risky or criminal behavior during the summer. All Chatham County children meeting the age requirement are invited to attend. The second camp begins July 11 for boys and July 18 for … Read …
Column: Income not sole indicator of poverty, affluence Near the local college campus could be a set of condominiums filled with the sons and daughters of alumni who pay for their children's housing, utilities and credit cards. These students may hold low-paid jobs, but these “households of unrelated … Read more on Daily Journal 7 …
Alternatives to Race-Based Admissions Fail to Achieve Student Diversity … Not even hundreds of millions of dollars spent on alternatives to race-based college admissions policies have achieved significant diversity among entering college classes, according to four studies commissioned by Educational Testing Service, Princeton. Read more on GoodCall News (blog) Do you owe the IRS money? …
JOHN CANNON: Free college not the answer I am about to say something that I suspect will surprise many friends who know how firmly I believe that a good education is a key to success in life: I don't think making two years of community college free will enhance the cause of quality education … …
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What could finally close the gender pay gap? For instance, women are now more likely to have college degrees than men, but men continue to dominate so-called STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), which tend to pay more than other jobs. Yet the math scores of high school … Read more on CBS News …
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HOPE Latina Honors CSUN Student with Future History Maker Award The first-year master's student in health administration already has traveled to Mexico to build houses, to South Africa to volunteer in hospitals and homeless shelters, and she will volunteer in Nicaragua this summer to assist Mayo Clinic College of … Read more on CSUN Today …
Push to ban disciplinary section from college applications A Syracuse non-profit is urging colleges to eliminate the disciplinary section from student applications and asking school districts not to cooperate. The Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse has been looking at the issue for nearly two years. Read more on WSYR District phasing out alternative school …
Improve college graduation rates with mandatory national service Your options outside of being drafted were limited: enlist in a branch of the service that might not see any action, enlist in a branch of the service that might train you in a skill, enlist in a reserve unit or national guard that might not be …
Convocation alternatives available As Lakeland College students, one of the we must complete is that of fulfilling our convocation requirement, which, for incoming freshman students is a total of 24. Transfer students are given an altered number based on credits already earned. When … Read more on Lakeland Mirror (subscription) Fewer Asians Need Apply … …
Academics and academic groups respond with fury over firing of 2 professors at … The idea involved giving new students a survey, telling them there were no wrong answers and then using the results in part to decide which students to encourage to drop out early — before they would owe much tuition or incur …