Pavita Singh, MPH: How To Write A Killer College Essay For The College Admission You Deserve

This post was co-written with Sushma Sharma of Konversai.


This article originally appeared on Konversai.

 




As a high school senior or rising senior, you’ve worked so hard these past 12 years and you’re just about ready for the next chapter of your life. You’ve...

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W. Kent Barnds: Don't Fear General Education

I think most of you know that my recent series of blog posts and podcasts was inspired by a review of a leftover box of recruitment materials a colleague passed along to me. This review revealed the many promises made by colleges and universities, along with great mysteries about important...

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Mike Krzyzewski: 'I’m Recruiting More And More Intensely Than At Any Other Time In My Career'

With over 1,000 wins to his name, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I history. He has won five national championships ― most recently in 2015 ― and is both an inductee of the Naismith Memorial and College Basketball Halls of Fame. And, at 69 years o...

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Matt Farrell Has Emotional Surprise Reunion With Deployed Brother

College basketball player Matt Farrell was overcome with emotion when the soldier brother he thought was serving in Afghanistan paid him a surprise on-court visit.
The Notre Dame junior point guard was speaking with his older sibling Bo Farrell on the big screen via what he believed was a vid...

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Ken Reed: McCaffrey And Fournette Recognize Their Value, Use Their Leverage

I get the arguments of those people blasting Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey and LSU’s Leonard Fournette for skipping their bowl games to prepare for the NFL draft.


Being on a sports team is about being part of a band of brothers (or sisters) with a common cause. And McCaffrey...

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Terry Lyons: The Story of "Bad News" Barnes

“Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on, our troubles will be out of sight
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on, our troubles will be miles away
Here we are as in olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful...

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David Halperin: For-Profit Computer Systems Institute Stays Alive

On April 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of Education cut off federal student grants and loans to the Skokie, Illinois-based for-profit college chain Computer Systems Institute (CSI), citing detailed evidence of fraudulent conduct. Denying CSI’s appeal from its initial January 2016 ...

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The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week

The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom. Each week, HuffPost Women rounds up hilarious 140-character musings. For this week’s great tweets from women, scroll through the list below. Then visit our Funniest Tweets From Women page for o...

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John A. Tures: Why Travis Rudolph Should Win The 2016 Heisman Trophy For His Selfless Act

On December 10, 2016, some college athlete will be crowned the next Heisman Trophy Winner, the award given to the most outstanding football player. While it will likely go to one of these five players, it should go to someone who wasn’t invited, Florida State University Wide Receiver...

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David Halperin: Department Of Education Requires 25 Percent Letter Of Credit To Approve University Of Phoenix Owner Change

The U.S. Department of Education today approved the application of the Apollo Education Group, owner of the University of Phoenix, to convert from being a publicly-traded company to one owned by private equity firms and still keep its eligibility for federal student grants and loans. But in...

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Quora: Does College Make You a Better Coder?

Does college make you a better coder? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Hadi Partovi, CEO, Code.org, tech entrepreneur/investor, on Quora:

Does college make you a better...

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David Halperin: McCain Slams Pentagon For Protecting Troops From For-Profit College Abuses

Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John McCain (R-AZ) held a hearing last week for the express purpose of attacking the Defense Department’s 2015 decision to temporarily ban the for-profit University of Phoenix from recruiting U.S. military service members. Even though the ...

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Why is State U recruiting so many out-of-state students? And what it means for higher ed.

Writing in the New York Times last month, Laura Pappano offered a thoughtful analysis of the efforts by public colleges – principally public flagship universities – to find new sources of revenue, diversify their student bodies, and expand their national reputations. It’s...

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Dr. Brian C. Mitchell: Why is State U recruiting so many out-of-state students? And what it means for higher ed.

Writing in the New York Times last month, Laura Pappano offered a thoughtful analysis of the efforts by public colleges – principally public flagship universities – to find new sources of revenue, diversify their student bodies, and expand their national reputations. It’s...

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Gloria Larson: Be the Captain of your Intern Ship

As president of a leading business university, I frequently speak with students and parents about the importance of internships in their preparation for life after college. While the job market is stronger than ever — in fact, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE)...

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Read The Heart-Wrenching Letter One Woman Wrote To Her Rapist

Amy-Lee Goodman was 27 when she was raped in the spring of 2015 by her roommate’s boyfriend, Szymon Chodakowski. A year and a half later ― after multiple plea deals were rejected ― the case went to trial and Chodakowski was found guilty on two felony counts: rape and sex abuse. 
On Nov. 29, C...

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Peter Mandel: Why Campus Technology Was Better in the 1970s

Sophomore slump. Even the phrase sounds wet and flat.


It won’t stop raining and sleeting and snowing. Your dorm smells like mold. And unlike just a couple of months earlier, you can’t drum up much of an interest in “Introductory Sub-Aquatic Ecology” or...

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NerdWallet: 4 Student Loan Tips That Might Actually Be Terrible Advice

There’s plenty of advice available for managing student loans, some of it good and some not so good. But you should be wary of a one-size-fits-all approach. Depending on your circumstances, some common tips for handling student debt could backfire.


Before following these four tips,...

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Trevor Noah's Interview With Tomi Lahren Is A Perfect Example Of Why The White Liberal 'Discourse' Fetish Is So Damn Absurd.

Comedy Central


While many have trumpeted Trevor Noah’s sit-down with right-wing commentator Tomi Lahren as proof that discussion works, it’s more often a cutting argument for the exact opposite.



Whether or not you know it, comedy news “annihilates,” “demolishes,” “eviscerates,” or “des...

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Student Emails Her Teacher While Hopped Up On Drugs After Surgery

Well, someone gets an A+ for hilarity.
An email that a college student wrote to her teacher while under the influence of hydrocodone, an opioid pain medication that can cause confusion, after dental surgery is going viral.
Abby Jo Hamele, a 19-year-old student at the University of N...

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Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz: More Mistakes to Avoid When Completing College Apps

By now, most students have returned to school and fall semester is under way. For seniors, the college application process has begun (or is beginning now). In my last blog, I identified four common, but avoidable mistakes college applicants make in completing applications, and promised to...

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Rigel Robinson: The #SleepRevolution Is Coming To UC Berkeley

The Huffington Post and the ASUC Office of the Academic Affairs Vice President are excited to bring the #SleepRevolution to UC Berkeley!


The Huffington Post Sleep Revolution will be taking the nation by storm this spring, headlined by a new book from Arianna and a tour of 50 colleges and...

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These Two Students Had Their College Newspaper Confiscated After Publishing An LGTBQ Article

Jordan Ryner and Zach Schneider, both seniors at Ohio’s Cedarville University, said they hadn’t run into any problems handing out their independently-run school newspaper, The Ventriloquist, until this past issue.


The two suspect that their Baptist school’s...

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John Seery: College at Its Best (Hint: Small and Real)

We declare this: America’s small liberal arts colleges (“SLACs”) ought to be regarded as the gold-standard model for college education–and anything falling short of that model should indeed be understood as a compromise, a departure from the best. SLACs feature...

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David Halperin: College Staffed By Ex-Trump University Executives Tells Employees To Avoid The Media

Tampa-based college Ultimate Medical Academy (UMA), whose co-CEO was the chief operating officer of controversial Trump University, has emailed its employees regarding an article that Republic Report published earlier this week. UMA CEO Steven Kemler wrote to his staff (see images below)...

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College Is A Time To Define Yourself Through Action

I have been a lot of things in my life. I’ve had the privilege of saying, “I’m a mom,” “I’m a friend,” and “I’m a professor.” What I have realized, however, is that those are titles easy to give to yourself.


I’ve noticed...

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Patti Giggans: Denim Day: Making a Social Statement with a Fashion Statement

What happened in 1999 that brings us together on this 17th annual Denim Day, Peace Over Violence’s sexual violence prevention education campaign? The Denim Day story began in Italy after a Supreme Court justice overturned a lower court’s rape conviction ruling that because the...

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Kanye West Actually Made Some Pretty Good Points On Twitter For Once

On Tuesday, rapper and prolific tweeter Kanye West shared some thoughts about the high cost of education, specifically college textbooks. 
Unlike some of his other tweets, West’s comments were about a serious issue that major politicians have already started working on.
First, here ...

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Report Highlights States' Efforts To Ensure College- And Career-Readiness

For its seventh annual “Closing the Expectations Gap” report, Achieve surveyed all 50 states and the District of Columbia about their college- and career-ready (CCR) policies, including aligning standards, graduation requirements, assessments and accountability systems with the expectations ...

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Alex Beasley: You Are What You Sleep

If I asked you to think of the last time that you slept poorly, that would probably be easy to recall, wouldn’t it?


What about the last time you were well-rested? And not just quality sleep for one night, but chronically well-rested, well-rested over a long period of time?...

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'The Daily Show' Mocks Internet Journalism... Again

Jon Stewart loves mocking CNN and Fox News, but he seems to have a special place in his heart for online media outlets, such as the one upon which you have just clicked (hi, friend!).


On Wednesday, Stewart sent correspondent Jordan Klepper out to look at how the Internet and social media...

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A Majority Of Women Wish Men Would Shave Or Trim Their Leg Hair

Is a whole new form of “manscaping” going to spread across the legs of men everywhere?
As featured on a segment on the Today Show this week, a survey conducted by Men’s Health last year showed that nearly half of the 580 men who responded said they “legscape,” w...

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Seth Abramson: The Ohio State Buckeyes Are Flagrantly Overrated

Pundits and Ohio State boosters have managed to convince college football fans, cable pundits, and the College Football Playoff committee that the Buckeyes should be the first team ever to not play in a conference championship and make the National Playoff anyway.
Good for them. The...

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17 Colleges With The Highest Rated Professors

The University of Mississippi has the best professors in the country, according to an analysis from Rate My Professors.
Rate My Professors, a website where students can rate and review their college instructors, released its annual rankings of the best professors and schools this ...

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Martha Kate Stainsby: Dear College Girl

Two years ago I was you. Six years ago I walked around the campus that would become my home and became you. And today I get the privilege of working with you. You truly are some of my very favorite people. I love college and college students. I truly do. Just today I stood on my alma...

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David Halperin: Ex-New York Times Reporter Now Lobbying To Block Student Debt Relief

For-profit colleges are once again fighting furiously, and expensively, to gut a common sense regulation from the Obama Department of Education. The Hill today is calling this latest lobbying battle a “frenzy.”


The Obama rule spurring this frenzy would:


1. Implement a law ...

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Paul Stoller: The Anthropology Of Us: A Second Open Letter To Our Students

I am back again with more wake-up news about the state of the society you will soon inherit. I don’t know if you’ve heard about yet another incident of hateful violence on one our college campuses–Ohio State. the site of a car ramming and a series of stabbings. As of...

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Jacqueline Wilson: 6 Lies We Tell College Graduates

Ahhh, yes. The last days of college — you’re so close to the finish line, but there is still so much to do — final exams, papers to be written, worrying about where you’re going to live or how you’re going to get a job. The family is probably planning a big...

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Sharyn J Potter: The Anti-Drunk Driving Movement as a Framework for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention

In February 1981, my friends Pamela Rudin, Erica Hassner, and Ruth Yudelson died on the shoulder of an upstate New York road while walking home from a religious retreat. Astonishingly, the drunk driver who plowed into them never saw the inside of a prison cell. A grand jury refused to...

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Larry Womack: Dear Bernie: I Like You, But These Red Flags Are Too Frequent To Ignore

You have been a lifelong champion of human equality. You have kept economic inequality, an issue I care very deeply about, at the forefront of an election cycle that might otherwise have been dominated by the antics of a reality TV clown.


On foreign policy, the issue that is generally...

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College Readiness Goes Beyond Academic Skills

In our recent research, we identified four specific areas — academic habits, cultural know-how, the ability to balance school and other demands and engaging in help-seeking — in which college faculty had clear expectations of their students. These expectations differed...

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Jessica Larson: 5 Things You Need To Know About Narcolepsy

Why are people with narcolepsy constantly subjected to the ridiculous statement, “I wish I could sleep that much?”


Not like that, you don’t. Narcolepsy is by no means fun or funny. Here are five things you should know about this sleep disorder.


1.  Narcolepsy is a ...

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Dan Reimold: Rant in East Carolina Student Newspaper Spurs Racial Tension, Death Threats for Editor

An anonymous rant with racist overtones run in East Carolina University’s student newspaper has triggered controversy, outside media coverage, a free speech debate, a campus-wide racial inequality panel and even death threats directed at the paper’s editor-in-chief.


Named...

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10 March Madness Stars Who Improved NBA Draft Stock The Most

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Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield has continued his brilliance, destroying Oregon for 37 points to propel the Sooners to their first Final Four since 2002.



There may not a better time to endear yourself to NBA scouts than during the NCAA Tournament. The entire ...

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Polly Irungu: Best Places to Nap at the University of Oregon

As a college student, I know firsthand how hard it can be to get enough sleep during the term. The demands of every-day life: classes, work, internships, volunteering and so on can through one off balance. With such packed schedules, sleep time can be shoved on the back seat. Most college...

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Ranking Of The World's Best Universities Shows America's Lead Is Slipping

A new ranking of the world’s best universities released Wednesday shows the United States’ traditional lead is slipping. 
The Times Higher Education’s annual ranking of the top 200 universities worldwide includes 63 American institutions, down from 74 the year before. The U....

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Michael Mulligan: Advice on What Really Matters in the College Process

Each year the whole college process just gets more intimidating as ever more scholars throw their applications into America’s top colleges and universities. Acceptance rates now hover around 5 percent at the most elite colleges. Many applicants, as always, are specifically...

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David Halperin: Bob Dole Lobbies For For-Profit College Facing Fraud Probes

Twenty years ago this summer, he stood on a San Diego stage and accepted the nomination of the Republican Party for President of the United States. Last week, Bob Dole, now a retired U.S. senator from Kansas and an endorser of Donald Trump for president, registered as a lobbyist for...

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Military Rivals Face Off In An Energy-Saving Web Series

Without totally sidelining their historic rivalry, the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Air Force Academy joined forces to improve energy efficiency at both campuses.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Energy launched the second season of its “Better Buildings Challenge Swap,” a reality web seri...

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Hana Nazir: 7 Common College Application Answers, Translated

This guide was created to commemorate the thousands of thick (and dismally thin) envelopes that have been flying out from colleges across the country, for the past few weeks. What exactly did all of those essays, scores and activities mean?


1. The Common App: “President and CEO of...

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Katie Ray-Jones: When It Comes To Consent, There Are No Gray Areas

And our laws should reflect that


Like many people, I was outraged when I heard about the Oklahoma court ruling that was recently in the news. Outraged and disgusted.


In case you missed it, a court in Oklahoma declared that it is not against state law to have oral sex with a person who...

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Stuart Muszynski: Donald Trump: America's Golden Calf?

The biblical story of the Golden Calf goes like this: Moses answers God’s call to climb Mount Sinai to receive the two tablets of the Ten Commandments. He stays on the peak for forty days to hear God’s instructions. In the meantime, anxiety and disbelief overtake the people. To...

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Some States Link Exit Exams With College Readiness

Eight states have linked high-school exit exams to college-readiness standards such as Common Core and 10 more plan to do so, according to a new report, from the Center on Education Policy at George Washington University. The policy change reflects the “growing recognition that we are...

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Jacqueline Baltz: Is Sleep Deprivation The New College Norm?

My eyes burned. I could hardly recall any information that I had spent all night memorizing. I knew the clock was ticking, but I couldn’t force myself to focus. My lack of sleep had finally caught up to me. It was the last day of my first college exam week, and my mind and body had...

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Dan Reimold: Michigan Student Newspaper 'Decapitates' Athletic Director in Photo Illustration

A conservative student newspaper at the University of Michigan is in the spotlight after publishing a photo illustration that led a UM adjunct professor to bring up ISIS and alert campus police.


This past week, The Michigan Review posted a doctored photo online that included a depiction...

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College Player Dribbles Out Clock While His Team Is Losing By 1

With seconds remaining and his team trailing Brown 91-90 Monday in college basketball, Bryant’s Ikenna Ndugba picked a really bad time to be unaware of the score.
Apparently believing his team was ahead, he took the inbound pass, dribbled out the clock and tossed the ball in the air to c...

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Eric Cooper: "Money Games:" The Shame of College Football

Al-Tony Gilmore is this week’s guest author.


“For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes — not that you won or lost –but how you played the game,” wrote legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice in his famous poem, “Alumnus...

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Caitlyn McCain: The Advantage of a Liberal Arts Living Space

You wake up in your senior year apartment and you head through the house towards the bathroom. On the way, you side step one roommate’s books with gray scale covers about the Holocaust, and an unbalanced stack of novels about the 1960’s and the Cold War. Passing the kitchen...

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Linda Katehi: Access to Higher Education Equals Access to Opportunity

(photo credit: UC Davis)


College rankings are something parents, students and educators all watch. They offer a snapshot of what each university has to offer and UC Davis has long enjoyed high rankings across the board.


UC Davis has been recognized for being 1st in the world for...

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Lisa Katz: He's Leaving For College

** Disclosure: I began writing this post a year ago and as my daughter is now beginning this very process, I decided it was time to complete my initial thoughts. **






I am not sure where to begin. My life as a Mom flashed before my eyes as I watched my 6-foot-tall son walk across the...

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David Halperin: ITT Tech: We'll Change Our Recruiting Strategy To Raise Revenues (?)

Troubled predatory for-profit college ITT Tech said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last night that in order to raise enough money to cover a new letter of credit requirement imposed by the U.S. Department of Education, “the Company expects to implement...

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Thomas Kuegler: Why Visualizing Our Dreams Every Day Is Monumentally Important

My dream is to travel the world.


I want to wake up in another country on the other side of the world and go out to breakfast. Then I want to sit by the water and watch foreigners walk past me. I want to think about my home. Then I’ll catch the scent of foreign food cooking nearby....

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/thomas-kuegler-why-visualizing-our-dreams-every-day-is-monumentally-important/

Greg Kaplan: Write a Personal Statement that Will Get You into College

You have the grades and SAT/ACT scores to get into your dream college. The problem is that tens of thousands of other applicants also have them. With a sea of highly qualified applicants, the personal statement is critical for standing out. The personal statement is your opportunity to...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/greg-kaplan-write-a-personal-statement-that-will-get-you-into-college/

Watch The Most Canadian Rap Diss Video Ever Made

What would happen if Canadians tried to trash talk America?


According to CollegeHumor, it might look a little something like this:


Who knew a rap diss video could have so many apologies? Watch the friendliest take-down you’ve ever seen in the video above.


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Nina Flores: La Sierra University Mishandled This Case of Sexual Assault

Tensions are running high at La Sierra University where reports of mishandled campus sexual assaults are flooding a newly created website for survivor stories. La Sierra, a small Seventh-Day Adventist university in Riverside, California, is the latest school to face complaints from students...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/nina-flores-la-sierra-university-mishandled-this-case-of-sexual-assault/

Hillary Clinton: We Need To Solve America's Student Debt Crisis

Forty million Americans have student debt. Together, they owe more than a trillion dollars — an amount that has doubled since the great recession. Americans now have more student loan debt than debt from credit cards, car loans, and home equity lines of credit. As I’ve traveled...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/hillary-clinton-we-need-to-solve-americas-student-debt-crisis/

Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz: Why Bother to Get to Know College Admissions Reps

Did you know that each four-year college in the United States has a college admissions representative from their college assigned to every high school? Yes, even your high school has an admissions officer assigned to it by the different colleges. What we’re talking about, is someone...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/marjorie-hansen-shaevitz-why-bother-to-get-to-know-college-admissions-reps/

Alex Beasley: How To Sleep Like A Caveman

Ah, sleep; wouldn’t it be nice to have more of it?


If you’re feeling constantly under-rested and stressed, it was probably very easy for you to say “yes” to this question, then think “but how?” Getting adequate and quality rest can seem like a nebulous...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/alex-beasley-how-to-sleep-like-a-caveman/

Dartmouth Student Newspaper Runs Front-Page Editorial: Abolish The Greek System

The Dartmouth, the student newspaper for Dartmouth College, published a front-page editorial Friday calling for the end of the Ivy League school’s popular Greek system.


“An understanding of what’s at stake drove this decision,” Dartmouth editor-in-chief Lindsay Ellis w...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/dartmouth-student-newspaper-runs-front-page-editorial-abolish-the-greek-system/

Nitwit With The Best March Madness Bracket Didn't Pick A Winner

James Kiki, a South Sudanese man living in Syracuse, New York, is currently the envy of millions of Americans right now.
With just three games left in the NCAA Tournament, he has picked 48 of 60 games correctly. His Final Four is perfect, and his Villanova-UNC title game pick and final score ...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/nitwit-with-the-best-march-madness-bracket-didnt-pick-a-winner/

Hits To The Head That Don't Cause Concussions Can Still Hurt You

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The Colleges Where People Tweet The Most About Drinking

West Virginia University is known as a party school where no one would be surprised if someone there tweeted out a video of students flipping a car or lighting a couch on fire. But they might be surprised to learn that students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seem to post...

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These Are The 26 Most Sexually Healthy Colleges

Colleges have vastly improved sexual health on their campuses over the past decade, according to a new report from Trojan Brand Condoms. 
Trojan has released an annual sexual health report card since 2006, ranking colleges on how well they provide sexual health information and resources on ...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/these-are-the-26-most-sexually-healthy-colleges/

Jeannie Borin: Visiting Colleges This Spring? Read This!

Here are some things to look out for while touring different colleges. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the many buildings, programs and informational tours. Have a campus map available for easy navigation while on campus. A preplanned checklist of what you want to see is a good...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/jeannie-borin-visiting-colleges-this-spring-read-this/

David Halperin: For-Profit Colleges Press Traditional Colleges To Oppose Obama Rules

The for-profit college industry clearly is spending heavily to try to convince non-profit and public colleges to oppose new Department of Education regulations imposing accountability on badly-performing schools. Last week I wrote about how the industry has hired a former long-time New...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/david-halperin-for-profit-colleges-press-traditional-colleges-to-oppose-obama-rules/

College Ratings and Rankings: The Debate Continues

Last month’s Huffington Post College article, “Grading Higher Education: When Worlds Collide,” sparked a lively offline discussion and is worthy of additional exploration.


In that post, we examined how various magazines, journals, and other outlets grade American higher...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/college-ratings-and-rankings-the-debate-continues/

Ishan Puri: Acing Your College Admissions Interview

It’s unavoidable: the interview is a quintessential step in the admissions process that many applicants dread. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Read on for tips and tricks to ensure that your next college admissions interview is a success. Why Admissions Interviews are...

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Nathan Timmel: Let's Stop Blaming Millennials for Everything

“Are colleges too politically correct for comedy?” was the overhyped bird flu/shark attack/Ebola of the news recently. Having had a less-than-stellar experience performing comedy at a college, I wrote a piece about the idea. I discussed my university show gone awry, and it got a...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/nathan-timmel-lets-stop-blaming-millennials-for-everything/

Shanlon Wu: 3 Questions to Ask if Your Student Gets in Trouble at College

Disbelief is the most common reaction parents have to news that their college student is in trouble. Most parents think, “What’s the big deal? We all did silly/dumb/risky things in college.”


Well, that was then–and this is now. Decades ago, colleges often...

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Bob Hildreth: College's Stake in China May Backfire

Colleges have a lot to lose if China’s economy keeps declining and with its wealth. This is because China’s wealth is the source of much college tuition both directly and indirectly. And one key source of wealth–China’s official foreign reserves, has fallen more than...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/bob-hildreth-colleges-stake-in-china-may-backfire/

Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz: Seven Really Smart Things to Do When Filling Out College Applications

Right about now, every college bound high school senior is doing (or should be doing) the same thing: filling out college applications. While each phase of the college admissions process is important, nothing is more important than completing the applications. When all is said and done, the...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/marjorie-hansen-shaevitz-seven-really-smart-things-to-do-when-filling-out-college-applications/

Amy Wang: Why Do I Choose Not To Sleep?

Why is it that I keep forgetting that sleep is such a wonderful thing? Probably because I am not getting enough sleep to remember.
Read more: Sleep, School, Work, Self-Care, Sleep Revolution, College Sleep, University of Denver, Sleep + Wellness, Healthy Living News

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What Happens When Two Stereotypes Come Face-To-Face

“Is it weird to be proud of your stereotype?” one University of Montana student asks as part of a new social experiment from student newspaper, the Montana Kaimin.


The Kaimin brought together students and staff of the university from across academic, athletic and social...

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Internet Decides Dominant Villanova Is Not Killing Men’s Basketball

The No. 2 Villanova Wildcats just won by the greatest margin of victory in a Final Four game, beating the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners 95-51. Four of the Wildcat starting five scored in double-digits, and Big 12 Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year Buddy Hield of Oklahoma was held...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/internet-decides-dominant-villanova-is-not-killing-mens-basketball/

The 8 Most Damning Lines About Baylor Football From Sex Abuse Report

Baylor University is finally waking up to these facts: For years, there was a massive, systematic failure within the Baylor football program when it came to issues of sexual assault. When faced with assault accusations against its players between 2012 and 2015, Baylor’s football p...

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How Students Decorated Their Dorm Rooms In 1900

Established in 1845 by the final Congress of the Republic of Texas, Baylor University in Waco is the state’s oldest continually operating university.
These images, taken around the turn of the 20th century, reveal the interiors of the men’s dormitories at Ertha Lee Cowden Hall and the wom...

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Dr. Brian C. Mitchell: College Ratings and Rankings: The Debate Continues

Last month’s Huffington Post College article, “Grading Higher Education: When Worlds Collide,” sparked a lively offline discussion and is worthy of additional exploration.


In that post, we examined how various magazines, journals, and other outlets grade American higher...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/dr-brian-c-mitchell-college-ratings-and-rankings-the-debate-continues/

Vince Bertram: Three Questions High School Seniors Should Ask When Choosing a College

If you are a high school senior in the United States, or one’s parent, the next few months will be a whirlwind as you wind down your high school career and begin receiving acceptance letters from the colleges and universities to which you applied.


These letters represent the...

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David Halperin: For-Profit Colleges Use Distortions to Enlist Students to Oppose Obama Rules

Steve Gunderson, the former congressman (R-WI), who heads the discredited, depleted for-profit college trade group CECU (formerly APSCU), is working hard to defeat a new Obama Administration rule that would (1) provide debt relief for students who were defrauded by their schools and (2)...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/david-halperin-for-profit-colleges-use-distortions-to-enlist-students-to-oppose-obama-rules/

Quora: How Janet Hsieh Went From MIT Student to TV Host

What was it like going from MIT student to TV host? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Janet Hsieh, TV Host, Actress, Author, on Quora.

MIT actually prepared me for TV...

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Ishan Puri: How to Get Into Your Dream College

In an earlier article on www.synocate.com, we discussed how to organize your college list into safeties, matches and reaches. It’s critically important to integrate a variety of these as part of your list, and to be clear about your goals. But can you really get into those...

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Super Cool Hip Teen Slang Updated For Boring Adults Like Yourself

You do want to be a cool adult, right?
Being an adult is hard. You’re mostly working, paying bills, and you’re not really considered cool anymore. But what if you could up your cool factor even just the slightest amount simply by adopting some new, hot, cool, hip, stylish teen...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/super-cool-hip-teen-slang-updated-for-boring-adults-like-yourself/

Marcia G. Yerman: Sexual Assault on Campus: We Believe You

The Hunting Ground, a 2015 documentary examining rape on college campuses, begins with scenes of ecstatic high school seniors getting into the colleges of their choice.


These clips grimly foreshadow the horrific experience that they will encounter when they join the ranks of the one ou...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/marcia-g-yerman-sexual-assault-on-campus-we-believe-you/

Garrett Mintz: Be Yourself. The 2 Things College Students Should Know about Personality on the Job

The martial artist, actor, filmmaker, and philosopher, Bruce Lee, was one of the most prominent figures in the world throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Lee was not only extremely successful at each of these endeavors, but also pursued each endeavor in his own special way. Lee was best known...

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Crisis At Miami Dade College

By Sarah Gonzalez, Mc Nelly Torres and Lynn Waddell, Florida Center For Investigative ReportingShakira Lockett was a pretty good student in elementary, middle and high school. The Miami-Dade County native says she typically earned As and Bs in English classes.


Math was always something...

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Alex Leininger: College Courses Are Making Sleep Education Accessible

We are living in an age of vast technological improvement, and this growth has been predicted many times over to lead to the downfall of the human race. While that hasn’t exactly been the case, there have in fact been some negative consequences to our increasingly Jetson-esque...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/alex-leininger-college-courses-are-making-sleep-education-accessible/

Dan Reimold: Arizona State Student Senator Impeached for Talking to the Press Without Telling Superiors

Student government strikes again! The Tempe Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Arizona State University has impeached one of its own members for talking to The State Press campus newspaper without first giving USG leaders a heads-up.


The State Press interviewed ASU student senator...

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Academically Sketchy Program Defeats Academically Sketchy Program, 83-66

No. 1 UNC, a school with a men’s basketball team composed of enrolled students, beat No. 10 Syracuse, another school with a men’s basketball team composed of enrolled students, 83-66 on Saturday night in Houston, Texas to advance to the very important men’s college...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/academically-sketchy-program-defeats-academically-sketchy-program-83-66/

A College Football Recruit Is Taking Violence Against Women More Seriously Than Mississippi State

In a year in which the collective dialogue on violence against women, domestic violence and sexual violence has supposedly evolved, the latest incident out of college football makes clear just how very far up the ladder we still have to climb.
A little over two months ago, Jeffery Simmons, ...

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FlockU: The Quarter Life Crisis

TANNER ROEUniversity of Mary Washington ’16


My name is Tanner. I’m 23 years old, fresh out of college, and currently struggling with the quarter life crisis. What is the quarter life crisis, you may ask? It’s the feeling of absolute terror you get when you realize...

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Robert Franek: What Should LGBTQ Applicants Look for in a College?

Coming up with a list of colleges and universities for application involves a lot of consideration for every student. Students who identify as LGBTQ have extra best-fit criteria to consider when it comes to finding their ideal schools. Not only are they looking for schools of the right size...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/robert-franek-what-should-lgbtq-applicants-look-for-in-a-college/

Jeannie Borin: Admission Results Ahead: What To Do While You Wait!

You have undoubtedly worked hard to complete your applications and finally they are submitted! Waiting for admission results is difficult. However, you should be aware of next steps. Now what? For the next few weeks, you may feel the anxiousness of the notorious college waiting game as...

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David Halperin: Industry"s Top Lobbyist: Stop "Assaults" On For-Profit Colleges

Steve Gunderson, the former congressman (R-WI) who is the chief lobbyist for America’s for-profit colleges, warns in a new email, “There has never been a time when the economic, regulatory and political assaults on our sector have been stronger.” Gunderson, since 2012...

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It´s time for Millennials to knock down the doors of the backbone industries of the Economy.

There is something wrong with models that are barriers to inclusive decision making. Systems that look down upon the 3 most crucial and also surprisingly undermined groups in society. ( Women , Young people and the minority communities) Somehow in our very society today lurks this...

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W. Kent Barnds: Will The Early FAFSA Get The Worm?

Beginning this fall, prospective students will be able to submit the FAFSA as early as October 1 rather than the traditional date of January 1. The change has been called “Early FAFSA,” or in higher education circles “PPY,” which stands for...

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Tom Hanks In Carly Rae Jepsen"s "I Really Like You" Video Is Oddly Entertaining Without Music

We really really really really really — all right, all right, that’s enough.


 
Music videos without music are like that scene in “The Wizard of Oz” when the wizard tells Dorothy and her crew to “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.” W...

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Darius Adams: Dear NCAA: My Mom Is a Sexual Assault Survivor and You Can Help

My name is Darius Adams. I’m the son of Brenda Tracy who is a public rape survivor. It was 2010 when my mom first told me that she was raped. I was 17. We were sitting in our car in our driveway. I remember it because it was a life-changing moment for me. She didn’t tell me...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/darius-adams-dear-ncaa-my-mom-is-a-sexual-assault-survivor-and-you-can-help/

Garrett Mintz: When it Comes to Your Career...DREAM BIGGER! 3 Things to Think About

Mark Twain once said, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” This sentiment that Mr. Twain held remains true to this day, but can be very difficult to uphold....

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High Schools May Have To pay For Unprepared Graduates

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report.


Mississippi and Maine have become the latest in a series of states to question whether school districts should be held financially responsible when students arrive at college unprepared.


Lawmakers in Mississippi will likely vote...

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UCLA Healthy Campus Initiative: Sleep Deprivation Is No Joke

By: Carolanne Link, UCLA Undergraduate Student


Recently, I had one of those days where I prioritized homework above sleep. I was in my fourth straight hour of chemistry homework when I made myself laugh. How? Well, while doing an extensive calculation, I picked up my cellphone and...

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Bill O"Reilly Comes To The Rescue Of His Old College Newspaper

Conservative author and TV pundit Bill O’Reilly is one of a few notable donors coming to the rescue of the Boston University student newspaper.


The BU student paper, The Daily Free Press, started a crowdfunding campaign online last week with a goal of collecting $70,000 to get...

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Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

This week the nation got to experience March Madness a few days early with Donald Trump’s back-to-back town halls. On Tuesday, Trump said he supports nuclear non-proliferation but also suggested that South Korea and Japan get nuclear weapons of their own (the latter has a pretty good...

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John A. Tures: In Their Football Coach Search, LSU Needs To Listen To The Piña Colada Song

In 1979, Rupert Holmes became a legacy with his hit song “Escape,” better known to the world as “The Pina Colada Song,” where a man looking for a new love discovers his current girlfriend is the ideal choice. It’s good advice for Joe Alleva at Louisiana State...

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Dr. Brian C. Mitchell: Using Private Investors to Meet Higher Education"s Facilities Needs

It all depends upon where you sit.


The debate over how to finance American higher education continues to simmer. One of the most interesting aspects of this ongoing discussion has been the use of private investment to meet capital needs.


Not very long ago most senior college...

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Sridhar Kota: Reimagining University Rankings

Ten years ago this month, Colin Diver, the President of Reed College, penned an article explaining the single most liberating decision an administrator at an institution of higher learning could make: Withdrawing from the US News and World Report college rankings.


Reed had announced a...

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Jeannie Borin: Guidelines for Making the Final College Choice

The waiting is almost over as admission notices get sent out now and within the next few weeks.


Making an informed and correct college choice is crucial.


There are a variety of ways that each person goes about making their final college choice. Factors in selecting a college may vary...

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David Halperin: Obama"s Last Chance To Protect Students And Taxpayers From Predatory Colleges

This is the comment (pdf) I submitted today to the Department of Education regarding new rules aimed at protecting students and taxpayers from deceptive practices and other abuses by unscrupulous colleges.


Secretary John B. King, Jr. ,U.S. Department of Education


Re: Docket ID...

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Mycah Hazel: A Liberal Arts Major"s Guide To Handling #ThanksgivingClapBacks

PHOTO: Situation Interactive


Twitter will tell you to be a savage. Come to the function with enough clapbacks for the dinner table at Thanksgiving and the line on Black Friday. Snapchat will tell you to vent about the situation to your followers. Facebook will tell you to keep a smile on...

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Eric J. Furda: No Thanks, Dad, I"m OK

The seasonal transitions that come with the of end of summer and back to school are upon us. Some may lament that the summer ‘went too fast,’ while ma…
Read more: College Admissions, College, Parenting, Education News

The above post is reprinted from materials provided by...

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If People Said Happy Birthday The Way They Do On Facebook

 
The Facebook birthday wish is the musical chairs of birthday wishes. Either you have your place or you’re left out of the game.
Some people misspell “Happy Birthday” on purpose. Some people find a random video with your name and post it to your page. Facebook birthdays a...

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Marina Rosenthal: How To Address Rape Myths When Teaching About Sexual Assault

A hand flies into the air. I’m halfway through Psychology of Trauma, one of the courses I teach at the University of Oregon. Fifty students and I are crammed in a dim, humid classroom. We’ve been learning and talking about sexual assault on campus for the past week, and...

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Paul Ruth: Bernie is Not an Immature Candidate

Polls and primaries have shown presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to be popular with millennials. It would be easy to write this off as an immature response from over idealistic young people being choked up by pipedream promises. Yet the message Sen. Sanders presents is being lived...

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Students Rising Above: Escaping the Tentacles of Poverty

By Lauren Brener, Internship Coordinator, Students Rising Above


Sometimes you just get lucky. I should know; it happened to me. After 21 years in sales, I was beyond ready for a change. Then a health scare — what if I had very little time left? Is this how I would have wanted...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/students-rising-above-escaping-the-tentacles-of-poverty/

Why The Huffington Post Is Going On A Sleep Tour On College Campuses

Arianna Huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, is starting a somewhat unusual book tour Friday, traveling to college campuses around the country to talk about what students are doing in their dorms. Specifically, she wants to talk about sleep. 
As Huffington promotes ...

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Beware, Hoops Fans: "March Sadness" Video Will Have You In Tears

Chock-full of upsets and can-you-believe-it moments, March Madness is known for its unpredictability, for putting forth no lead too large for the underdog to surmount and no program too small to don Cinderella’s glass slipper.
But for every Cinderella in the Big Dance, there is another...

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Houston Barber: The Play That Changed Football in the State of Florida and the Unlikely Man Who Made It

The most important play in Jimbo Fisher’s career wasn’t a Jameis Winston touchdown pass in the Rose Bowl, or a coast to coast Dalvin Cook run, or even an EJ Manual spin move. The play that changed everything for Fisher and his FSU program was made on a punt against an...

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Gabrielle Pfeiffer: 4 Struggles That Everyone in Their Early Twenties Can Relate To

Your early twenties are a turning point in your life. These are the years you will find yourself, lose yourself, and find yourself all over again. Just when you think you have life figured out, it changes and you are back at square one. These are the times you will find some amazing friends...

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Trevor Martin: Which College is the Best Financial Investment?

The White House recently revealed a great new website to research colleges using aggregate data collected on colleges by both the Department of Education and the Treasury. The original goal for this site was to provide an explicit ranking system of colleges based on factors such as...

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FlockU: The Things You Should--and Shouldn"t--Tell Your Parents in College

ANISSA FRITZ Kansas State ’17


Whether you decided to go to college 15 minutes or 15 hours from home, your relationship with your parents is going to change. So sometimes it can be hard to decipher what you should and should not tell your parental units. You don’t want them to...

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Jack Jennings: An American Innovation And A Caution

A homegrown, rapidly expanding American invention is a cost-effective tool for increasing post-secondary educational attainment and gainful employment. It is the quickest education and job training award offered by American higher education, and has the capacity to raise the country’s...

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Wayne State University Police Officer Dies After Being Shot In The Head

A police officer has died after he was shot in the head while on patrol near Wayne State University campus in Detroit Tuesday night. Authorities say they are interrogating a man about the attack.
Wayne State University officer Collin Rose, 29, was on duty around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he...

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Ishan Puri: "Why This School?" Should Be The First Admissions Essay You Write

It is time to write your college admissions essays. You have spent some time thinking about your main essay, the one that will tell an admissions team your story and give them a sense of your character and interests. But then you realize there is more than just one essay. You find that most...

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Van Winkle"s: Why This Workaholics Star Will Never Sleep Near a TV

Anders Holm is a mess on Comedy Central’s Workaholics, in which he plays the pot-smoking, unmotivated, office drone Anders (he writes and directs for the show, too). But in his new movie, Unexpected, he’s forced to get his act together after he and How I Met Your...

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Amelia Roskin-Frazee: Why We Don"t Report It

Content warning: sexual violence and harassment


“Why don’t you report it?”


It’s up there on every list I’ve seen of things you shouldn’t say to sexual assault survivors, yet I keep hearing it.


“Why don’t you report it?” one of my...

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Massachusetts Unveils First U.S. College Tuition Rebate Program

Massachusetts on Thursday unveiled what state officials called the first initiative in the country to offer tuition rebates to full-time students who begin their studies at a community college and complete a bachelor’s degree at a state university.
The program, called the Commonwealth...

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Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz: Sevens Steps to Putting Together a Great College List

Last June, I wrote a blog entitled, “NOW Is the Time for Rising Seniors to Find and Choose Colleges They’re Going to Love.” While June is fine, right now is an even better time for juniors to organize a college list. If you come up with a list in February, followed by some...

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What People On Campus Are Saying About HuffPost"s College Sleep Tour

The Huffington Post’s College Sleep Tour is sparking a lot of conversation on social media and in the pages of college newspapers about the importance of sleep for students. 
The College Sleep Tour is hitting 16 campuses through April and May, and started last week. Arianna Huffington, ...

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Tennessee College Kids Tell Us Which GOP Candidate Is The Craziest

To mark Super Tuesday, The Huffington Post teamed up with mtvU in an effort to take the political pulse on college campuses.


We asked Vanderbilt Hustler reporter Leslie Reece Schichtel to interview some students on her campus in Nashville, Tenn., about the GOP candidates. Tennessee is one...

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UVA Student Newspaper Elects Its First Ever All-Female Board

Posted by Dan Reimold on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 · Leave a Comment 

Here’s a rundown of recent college media and journalism education news, a smidgen of student press history, some student journalist perspectives and a few funny headlines and tweets.
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To pass along tips, stories, links ...

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Cyndi Chen: March Gladness: the Bracket That Keeps Giving

Tonight the Villanova Wildcats and Carolina Tar Heels pound in the final nail on the coffin containing the hopes and dreams of bracket makers everywhere. Tonight, my coworkers and I find out exactly how badly we all lost to the one guy in Sales who predicted the Middle Tennessee upset,...

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Robert Scheer: Anthony Davis and the Repercussions of a Football Career

In this week’s Scheer Intelligence podcast on KCRW, Robert Scheer speaks with former USC football player Anthony Davis about living with the brain injuries Davis sustained during his celebrated career.


Co-author with Jeremy Rosenberg, a USC assistant dean, of the 2014 book...

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Clueless Mom"s Dorm Room Prank Goes Hilariously Wrong

New York mother Deanna Pilling thought she’d give her daughter the surprise of a lifetime by flying cross-country and showing up at her dorm room. Little did she know, she’d be on the receiving end of the surprise. 
Deanna arrived on Utah State University‘s campus and ...

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Dr. Brian C. Mitchell: The College Swimsuit Edition: Making Sense of the College Ranking Wars

Today, the real and virtual ink expended in elaborate rebuttals of the so-called higher education “swimsuit” editions that rank colleges and universities now matches the amount of ink expended in producing these editions.


Americans love to rate and rank almost anything....

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FlockU: Lazy Ways to Save Money in College

Addie JonasDrexel University ’18


College is a fucking money sucker. The tuition is enough as is, and on top of that, you have to pay for every little thing you do–especially if you’re like me and you go to school in the city.



Source: Disboards.com


There are so many...

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David Halperin: For-Profit Colleges Say Students Are Being Defrauded (By Someone Else)

The for-profit colleges’ depleted trade group CECU (formerly APSCU) reports in a new filing with the government a seemingly remarkable fact: Last month, the association wrote a letter to the Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Consumer Financial...

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Svetlana Dotsenko: How to Find Internships In Europe (Yes, Paid!)

A year ago I went to Portugal, a country of elaborate azul tiles, ochre rooftops, soft sun, and melting custard tarts. The country of the magic, earthquakes, and first explorers, made me almost forget my mission of working on a more connected world – but I never forget it for too...

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Ishan Puri: The Biggest College Admissions Myth

There is no formula in college admissions, and for that reason it can be easy to pick and chose what ideals we think schools most value. We dream up myths behind seemingly “perfect” applications, but the truth is that no Top 50 admitted student harbors every quality these rumors...

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Dawn Weber: College Shopping List: Now vs. 1987

Well, it’s back to school time, and you know what that means for parents. Freedom!


Don’t mind me. I’m just a little sticker-shocked this year because my daughter starts college soon. One semester at the Princess’s school costs more than my first two cars put...

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John Pavlovitz: To Brock Turner"s Father, From Another Father

I’ve read your letter to the judge on behalf of your son Brock, asking for leniency in his rape conviction.


I need you to understand something, and I say this as a father who dearly loves my son as much as you must love yours:


Brock is not the victim here.


His victim is the...

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Joshua Waldman: Is Going to College a Colossal Career Mistake?

I believe in education for it’s own sake. I believe knowledge makes the world better. Curiosity and research drive innovation and technology! But not when it means shouldering a lifetime of soul-crushing debt for young learners who are not informed nor capable of making those types of...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/college+news/joshua-waldman-is-going-to-college-a-colossal-career-mistake/

In New Haven, A School Reform Drive With No Traction

This piece comes to us courtesy of

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Eryn Cooper: The University Of Alabama Takes On The #SleepRevolution

On Saturday, April 9, my sorority and I brought the #SleepRevolution to the University of Alabama. I was so excited to educate my sisters on the prevalence and danger of sleep deprivation and to discuss how the phenomenon affects each other in our daily lives as college students.


We...

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Tennessee Students Explain What Century Ron Paul, Rick Santorum Belong In

Which GOP candidate do University of Tennessee students consider the craziest? Or has the best chance to beat Obama? Reactions are all over the map.


One student claims that the ideal Republican candidate would be the offspring of Rep. Ron Paul and Gov. Mitt Romney. Another considers former...

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The End Of The NCAA Championship Game Was Absolutely Bonkers

On the biggest stage in college basketball and in one of the craziest championship finishes you’ll ever see, Villanova had just one more trick up its sleeve than perennial powerhouse North Carolina during the NCAA championship game on Monday night. 
It took two weathered Tar Heels storms an...

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Big 12 Commish Blames Sexual Assault Epidemic On ‘Raging Hormones"

On the first media day for the upcoming college football season, Big 12 Football Commissioner Bob Bowlsby opened his press conference with a clear yet paradoxical message: The Big 12 is dedicated to ending sexual assault on college campuses, but there’s only so much to be done considering i...

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Faith Hope Consolo: The Faithful Shopper: Gifts For Grads

Graduation season is time to celebrate huge milestones and your gift choice is very important. There was a time when graduation gifts consisted of money and flowers…that was then, this is now. Here are the practical, the indulgent, the necessities and the showstoppers. It’s a...

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Alex Furmansky: By The Numbers: These Top 20 Colleges Produce the Most Attractive Men

We at Sparkology have access to plenty of intimate data about people’s dating lives. Sometimes the data is too good not to share!


By way of background, Sparkology is dating app for young professionals in NYC. All our members are educated, ambitious, and individually approved to...

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FlockU: Being Motherless in College

ADDIE JONAS Drexel University ’18


The other day, I was sitting in a coffee shop on campus trying to think of a topic for my next article. I was thinking up all of the usual stuff: college fashion, sex, drinking, etc. As I opened my laptop to start writing, I overheard the...

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David Halperin: Twist: DeVry Goes to Court To Stop Students From Bringing Arbitration

For years, DeVry University, like other big for-profit colleges, forced its students to sign agreements that they would take any dispute with the school to private arbitration, rather than sue in court. When, this year, it appeared that the U.S. Department of Education was moving in the ...

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Colleges And Universities Should Become Sanctuaries For The Undocumented

Immigrants are among the groups most vulnerable to a Trump presidency, but colleges and universities can protect their students, faculty and staff from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by declaring themselves sanctuaries for undocumented people. There are currently over 700,000...

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Ishan Puri: 3 College Admissions Trends to Look For in 2017

Last year, we talked about three trends in college admissions to look for 2016. Now that the 2016 admissions season has come and gone, our attention here at Synocate is focused on helping our future Class of 2021 get into their dream schools. With this in mind, it’s important to...

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Peyton Price: 27 Things That Made Me Cry When I Took My Kid To College

1. His bedhead when he woke up that morning.


2. How perfectly his life fits into the car.


3. The balloons at the entrance to campus.





4. The moving brigade’s enthusiastic welcome.


5. A cloud shaped like the whale on his baby blanket.


8. How your husband grins and pats...

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NYC Schools Punished Students For Being Victims Of Sexual Assaults, Lawsuit Claims

The New York City Education Department has a pattern of discrediting and punishing victims of sexual assault, particularly if they are black and poor, according to two complaints filed in recent days with the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
The complaints w...

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Dave Pruett: We"re All in the Sacrifice Zone Now

sacrifice zone: a geographic zone that has been permanently impaired by environmental damage or economic disinvestment. These zones are commonly found in low-income and minority communities. (Wikipedia definition)


I grew up in the shadow of Appalachia. My hometown, Bluefield,...

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DeRionne P. Pollard, Ph.D.: Listen Up, High School Students and Families: This College President Is Going to Be Intrusive!

The Chronicle of Higher Education recently ran an in-depth article on life “inside a semester of Remedial English.” Entitled “The Second Chance Club,” the article offers a close look at students in one developmental (also called remedial) course classroom —...

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How Andre Iguodala Fixed His Sleep Game

If Andre Iguodala hadn’t gotten his sleep game in check, he might not have won MVP in the NBA Finals. 
Iguodala, NBA All-Star, Olympian and guard for the Golden State Warriors, admitted during a Monday night talk at Stanford University with Arianna Huffington, co-founder and ...

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Virginia Students Talk Newt Gingrich"s Wives, Mitt Romney"s Electability (VIDEO)

To mark Super Tuesday, The Huffington Post teamed up with mtvU in an effort to take the political pulse on college campuses.


We asked Kaz Komolafe, the managing editor of the Cavalier Daily, to interview students at the University of Virginia about the GOP candidates.


UVA students...

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Dan Reimold: University Threatens Student Newspaper for Its Report on Facebook Harassment Case

Officials at the University of Tulsa sent a chilling message earlier this week to its student journalists: Stop investigating news we don’t want you to cover or you will be punished.


Happy Friday, folks. The word of the day: censorship. It is wrapped cloak and dagger around a...

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Charles Barkley Did The Funniest Little Dance After Villanova Won

Who says sports broadcasters are supposed to be impartial?
Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley let their emotions shine through in drastically different ways on Monday night. After Kris Jenkins’ 3-pointer lifted Villanova over North Carolina in the NCAA basketball championship, Barkley...

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The 9 Best Videos Of People Losing It After Villanova’s Game-Winner

Villanova fans across the country collectively went nuts on Monday when their beloved Wildcats won college basketball’s national title on a buzzer beater that can only be described using superlatives like “mind-numbingly bananas.”
It was at that moment that the kids inside ...

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This 55-Year-Old Man Played College Football Last Weekend

Football teams like players with experience, but this could be unprecedented.
At 55, running back Joe Thomas Sr. may have become the oldest man to play Division 1 college football on Saturday. The walk-on gained 3 yards for South Carolina State on his first carry and finished with minus-1 ...

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Gabrielle Pfeiffer: Not Just Memorizing Memorizing: There is A Science Behind Effective Studying

The final days before a big exam can be nerve-wracking, to say the least. Just about every student knows the feeling of being wired on caffeine after pulling an all-nighter cramming all too well. As if that isn’t bad enough, the feeling of getting a C or lower can seriously crush your...

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Gun Advocates Plan Mock Shooting At University Of Texas In Austin

Gun rights advocates plan to stage a mock shooting on Saturday at the University of Texas at Austin to protest the campus’s gun-free zones. 
Dozens of demonstrators using cardboard cutouts of firearms and fake blood are expected to pretend to be shooters, victims and armed rescuers. A ...

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Kate Scharff: Facing the Empty Nest: The Mother of a High School Senior Finally Cracks

Idyllic morning in DC. Azaleas in full flower. I sip coffee at the kitchen window, eying a robin as she builds her nest on a low branch outside. Her cheerful air of maternal anticipation is too much.
Read more: Empty Nest Syndrome, Starting College, Kids Leaving Home, Parenting, Parents News



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