Ashley May Updated 4:37 p.m. ET USA Today April 11, 2018 Ieshia Champs of Houston, Texas, posed alongside her children, ranging in ages from 5 to 14-years old, before her graduation from law school. In her cap and gown, she's holding a sign saying: "I did it!" And, wow did she ever. Champs,…
Best Law Schools, 2012
Yale Once Again Tops Best Law Schools Rankings. by Brian Burnsed Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Yale Law School is continuing its two-decade run atop U.S. News's rankings of Best Law Schools. Little else changed among the top schools, as Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, Columbia Law School, and the University of Chicago Law…
DePaul Becomes Biggest Private University to Go “Test Optional”
Applicants May choose to writes essays that reveal "heart" By Eric Hoover / Feb 17, 2011 / Unknown Publisher DePaul University will no longer require applicants to submit standardized-test scores for admission. The new policy, announced on Thursday morning, makes DePaul the largest private nonprofit university to go completely "test optional." Starting with applicants for…
Program to offer community college transfer guidance
by Jane Roberts / Feb 28, 2011 / Commercial Appeal In community colleges, students waste semesters, even years, taking credits that do not count toward their majors. By the time they figure it out, it's possible they have 15, 30 or more useless hours -- costing them thousands of dollars in cash or debt.…
College Freshmen Report: Students Are Stressed and Depressed
Annual Survey Finds Students' Emotional Health at 25-Year Low; Girls Especially Hard Hit By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES Jan. 28, 2011 Joel Raneri of Bartonsville, Pa., is a freshman at Syracuse University in upstate New York who has already begun to feel the stress of a 17-credit workload, a job at the campus news station…
State of Washington to Offer Online Materials as Texts
Money-saving effort at 2-year colleges faces vexing problems By Martha Ann Overland / Olympia, Wash. Chronicle of Higher Ed / 1/11/11 It's a question that students, and a growing number of their professors, are asking: Why require students to buy expensive textbooks every year, when the Internet is awash in information, much…
Cam Newton’s dad’s curious BCS appearance
By Christine Brennan, USA TODAY Jan 9, 2011 It now turns out that Cecil Newton didn't sneak into the BCS title game in the Auburn mascot's costume. He didn't wear green and yellow to confuse everyone. He didn't walk in backwards to make people think he was leaving. His lawyer told USA TODAY…
Gus Malzahn’s coaching odyssey
Pat Forde ESPN.com January 8, 2011 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Gus Malzahn's first game as football coach at Shiloh Christian High School was in 1996 against Prairie Grove, a miniscule map dot in Northwest Arkansas near the Oklahoma border. It did not portend future greatness. The scoreboard tilted in favor of Prairie Grove. Adding injury…
The Fall of Bobby Lowder, and the Fallout at Auburn
by: Dan Wismar / The Cleveland Fan.com / Dec. 2010 If you're sick of hearing about Cam Newton, bear with me. Because Cam Newton is a part of this story, but in many ways he is incidental to it. The story is Auburn University, specifically its athletic department, and the shadowy but undisputed influence…
Keith Fitzhugh Turns Down NFL Dream for Railroad Reality
Man Declines New York Jets' Offer, Opts For Stable Conductor's Job to Support his Parents By BRADLEY BLACKBURN and JOHN BERMAN Dec. 8, 2010 Keith Fitzhugh just gave up his shot at the NFL to work on the railroad. 24-year-old Fitzhugh, who dreamed of an NFL career as a boy, had a chance to…
Graduation rate gap has widened
Updated: December 6, 2010, 9:00 PM ET / Associate Press ORLANDO, Fla. -- The disparity between graduation rates for white and black players at schools headed to bowl games grew again this year even as overall academic progress increased for both, a study released Monday found. The annual report by the University…
Conditions Imposed on Part-Time Adjuncts Threaten Quality of Teaching
By Peter Schmidt/ Chronicle of HigherEd Dec 1, 2010 Four-year colleges are undermining their own efforts to educate students by relying on part-time adjunct instructors who often lack the time or training to use effective teaching practices, a new study suggests. The study, based on a national survey of college faculty members, found that…
32 Americans Are Chosen as Rhodes Scholars for 2011
Nov. 21, 2010 / Chronicle of Higher Ed The 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for 2011 include two scholars from institutions that have never before had a student win the prestigious award: Ursinus College and the University of California at Irvine. The scholarships, announced by the American secretary of the Rhodes Trust…
Small Colleges and the Price of Business Faculty
November 15, 2010, 1:45 pm By David Evans Back in September I posted an entry on the challenges facing small private colleges when they seek to hire faculty members in business disciplines. This entry was, as I then said, prompted by a discussion on CICDEAN-L, the e-mail list sponsored by the Council of…
College Athletes’ Graduation Rates
Oct. 27, 2010 / Chronicle of Higher Ed The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s graduation-success rate differs from federal graduation statistics because it accounts for students who transfer. The NCAA’s figures, unlike the federal ones, do not penalize an institution for athletes who leave to attend other colleges, as long as they depart in…
Dontez Ford turns his life around
Dontez Ford turns his life around October 20, 2011 / Yahoo.com McKEES ROCKS, Pa. -- It was late in the evening, and Dontez Ford was walking up to his home when he saw police in his front yard. A few years ago, it might not have been a surprise to see officers at his…
FIVE STARS NOT NEEDED TO WIN AT BOISE
September 21, 2010 Adam Gorney Recruiting Analyst Blake Renaud knew it once he visited. There was just something about the environment, about the coaching staff, about the city of Boise and its intertwined feel with the football program. Renaud, a three-star defensive end from Concord (Calif.) De La Salle, had come off a visit…
FIVE STARS NOT NEEDED TO WIN AT BOISE
September 21, 2010 Adam Gorney Recruiting Analyst Blake Renaud knew it once he visited. There was just something about the environment, about the coaching staff, about the city of Boise and its intertwined feel with the football program. Renaud, a three-star defensive end from Concord (Calif.) De La Salle, had come off a visit to Oregon…
Small Colleges and Their Struggle to Recruit Business Professors
September 1, 2010, 01:00 PM ET By David Evans I've referred before to the discussions on CICDEAN-L, the e-mail list sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges primarily for chief academic officers at small, private institutions like mine. A recent discussion on the list, which caught my eye because we just hired a…
Unforgiven
Would-be draftee Tony Washington's NFL future is being derailed by his sad past By Allison Glock ESPN The Magazine August 24, 2010 LOCATED IN A WAREHOUSE outside Dallas, the windowless Metroflex Gym is not air-conditioned, an aesthetic choice that edits the clientele to a select group of cops, bikers, bodybuilders and other masochists who…
Entrepreneurship: Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain
Entrepreneurship: Nothing to Lose and Everything to Gain by Dan Schawbel, contributor / Forbes Magazine / August 2011 I recently caught up with Ryan Blair, who is a serial entrepreneur and author of the new book "Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain." Ryan established his first company, 24-7 Tech when he was only twenty-one…
Obama: Loan changes make college more affordable
Posted 3/27/2010 10:55 AM WASHINGTON (AP) — Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable after graduation, President Obama says. After a week when the loan program overhaul passed in the shadow of the health care law, the president cited…
Ohio Chancellor Steps Down, Leaving Strategic Plan in Limbo
By Eric Kelderman February 22, 2011 It was no surprise on Tuesday when Eric D. Fingerhut, chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents, stepped down after just four years on the job. Though state law guaranteed him another year in office, he was the lone Democrat still serving on the cabinet of Gov. John…
Teachers’ Colleges Upset by Plan to Grade Them
By TRIP GABRIEL Published: February 8, 2011 / New York Times Grades are the currency of education — teachers give them to students, administrators grade teachers and states often assign grades to schools. Now U.S. News & World Report is planning to give A through F grades to more than 1,000 teachers’ colleges,…
ESPN – OTL: The Boy Who Cried Cal
Tom Friend is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. Retrieved from: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=kevinhart lie this big isn't just a belch out of someone's mouth, it's years in the making. A lie this melancholy isn't mean-spirited, it's a flabby high school misfit stopping at nothing to fit in. A lie this loud isn't…
New Partners in the Plagiarism-Detection Business
January 26, 2011, 12:00 pm By Eric Hoover Whether plagiarism-detection software becomes a fixture of college admissions remains to be seen. But it’s safe to say the odds of more institutions’ embracing such a tool just increased. On Wednesday, Hobsons, a marketing and technology company that serves colleges, and iParadigms, which provides plagiarism-detection…
Far From Border, U.S. Detains Foreign Students
By Colin Woodard/ Tuesday, Jan 11, 2011 Old Town, Me. / Chronicle of Higher Ed Six miles north of the University of Maine's flagship campus, on the only real highway in these parts, students and professors traveling south might encounter a surprise: a roadblock manned by armed Border Patrol agents, backed by drug-sniffing…
6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life
Academics describe going mobile to plan lectures, keep up with scholarship, and run classes By Jeffrey R. Young Chronicle of Higher Ed / Jan 2, 2010 Not long ago, it seemed absurd for academics to carry around a computer, camera, and GPS device everywhere they went. Actually, it still seems absurd. But many professors…
Certificate Programs Could Play a Key Role in Meeting the Nation’s Educational Goals
By Jennifer Gonzalez / Chronicle of Higher Ed / Dec 6, 2010 Creating more certificate programs would help colleges meet the challenge of getting more students to finish a postsecondary credential and help states build skilled work forces, according to a new report from Complete College America, a Washington-based nonprofit group. Certificate programs, especially…
Center Renews Call for Overhaul of Nation’s Accreditation System
By Eric Kelderman October 20, 2010 The current system of quality control in higher education, overseen by six regional accrediting organizations, is not working and should be replaced, says a new report from the Center for College Affordability and Productivity. The center's director, Richard Vedder, a professor of economics at Ohio University, is…
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