CU-Boulder student fees rank high in Pac-12Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 12:47PMSarah Pearl, left, works out at the University of Colorado Recreation Center on Friday. As a percentage of the total cost of education, CU s student fees -- which pay for the Rec Center -- are among the highest in the new Pac-12 conference.
First-year students have much to look forward to and learn about college lifeSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 11:21AMThis column is part of the Daily Bruin’s Orientation Issue 2011 coverage. To view the entire package of articles, columns and multimedia, please visit:
The Conversation: Faces of the recoveryFriday, July 8, 2011 @ 10:29PMThe economic recovery is supposedly well under way, even in the Sacramento region. But it can be awfully difficult to tell.
State to begin accepting school voucher applicationsFriday, July 8, 2011 @ 3:11PMIndiana's "School Choice Law" went into effect one week ago and allows families to use tax dollars to offset the cost of tuition at private, religious, and for-profit schools. Catholic educators discussed how the measure will affect local schools at a conference earlier Friday.
UT report takes aimat college ‘solutions'Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 10:52PMshare: digg facebook twitter The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin weighed in Wednesday, releasing a 17-page rebuttal to the market-driven approach favored by the governor and some of his supporters. The centerpiece of the movement, known as the “seven breakthrough solutions” and promoted by the conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation, calls for treating students ...
MORENO VALLEY: Nursing college students complainTuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 11:28PMA nursing student says she was lied to by a local private college and promised benefits that didn't exist. When she complained, she said, she was forced out of the school two months before she was to graduate.
Relieving the tax burdenTuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 11:11PMIn the fourth of a four-part series, the Examiner looks at how the City of Barrie looking to the public-sector for partnerships goes a long way ----- A 20-acre site right in the heart of the city could well provide the foundation for the future of the Barrie's core.[...]
Get help to pay off student debtTuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:21PMMaurice Rowlin went to college more than 25 years ago, but his unpaid student loans continued to accrue interest.
Onions to Mountain Iron for water problem in West Virginia; to inflated grades in schoolsTuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:01PMOrchids: Bill Hanna and the MDN deserve huge orchids for exposing the IRRRB wage subsidy program. That agency should be ashamed. Many of the businesses interviewed are admitting that most of the employees would have been hired anyway.