Department Of Education Rejects For-Profit College Chain's Conversion To Non-Profit

In a critical decision to protect students and taxpayers from fraud and abuse in higher education, the U.S. Department of Education this morning rejected the request of the CollegeAmerica  / Stevens-Henager college chain to have its status changed from for-profit to non-profit for purposes...

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What The Olympics Can Teach Students About the 2016-17 Common App Essay Prompts

I spend a lot of time talking to 17-year-olds about what is valuable in life and what is worth aspiring to. With the Rio games in motion, I thought, who better to look to than Olympic athletes for lessons on motivation, ambition, and expression of your greatest self? It turns out this...

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For the Record: My Opinion On Baylor And Art Briles

As a public rape survivor, I’ve been asked to weigh in on some difficult discussions. One of those is Baylor and Art Briles. When the Pepper Hamilton report regarding Baylor first broke in the media I was devastated. It was a traumatic experience for me and it caused me to revisit my own...

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New Jersey Student Loan Agency To Staff: Don't Tell Borrowers About Help Unless They Ask

Following the storm, the agency did put a note on its website telling borrowers to contact them if they were struggling and says it sent written notice about the delinquency policy to borrowers.
When asked about credit reporting after the storm, initially Karrow stood by the statements of...

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College Board President: 'We Are Building an Iron Wall of Inequality'

College Board President and CEO David Coleman and “Bloomberg EDU” Host and Executive Producer Jane Stoddard Williams at the 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival.
When it comes to the state of student testing in the US, College Board President and CEO David Coleman said, “We are...

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Managing Stress Is The Key To Better Sleep Habits

Stress is thought to be a college norm. When it is not managed, stress can affect all aspects of your life, especially sleeping habits.
During my tenure as a Changing Carolina Peer Leader at the University of South Carolina, I have worked hard to educate my fellow students about the dangers...

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Student Activists on the Brink at Brown

It has finally happened. You are adrift.
A raft of badly lashed-together memories and a few fairly buoyant facts: That watercraft is you. But thanks to an article in The Brown Daily Herald, the Ivy League university’s student paper, you are listing badly. You are at...

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Who Shot The Game-Winning Shot vs. UConn? Dak Prescott Or Morgan William?

Yesterday, March 31st, Morgan William truly made history within not only collegiate women’s basketball, collegiate women’s sports, or collegiate basketball in general. She made history within sports, period. With seconds left on the clock, Morgan William of Mississippi State got the ball...

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4 Reasons Why The Oakland Raiders Should Sign Colin Kaepernick

You are probably very excited about this upcoming NFL season, and for good reason! Your Oakland Raiders finished 2016 at 12–4 and made the playoffs for the first time since 2002. You have one of the best young quarterback/receiver combos in the league in Derek Carr and Amari Cooper, the...

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“I’ve Been In College For One Week, And I Hate It!”

A friend of mine recently asked for some advice for a college freshman she knew who had been in school for all of one week, and already was miserable, and itching to break free and try something else. Advice? How about, simma down and let’s not make any rash decisions?


I’m not sure how...

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The 10 Best Colleges For Your Money In 2016, Ranked By Money Magazine

Choosing a college is one of the most important financial decisions families ever have to face. Not only does it represent a huge up-front expense ― one year at an “affordable” public university can easily set you back $20,000 a year ― but where you go to college can also affect your salary...

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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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College Rebuked Today By Education Dept. Is Suing Ex-Employee Who Complained to Accreditor

As we reported this morning, the U.S. Department of Education today rejected the request of the CollegeAmerica/Stevens-Henager college chain to have its status changed from for-profit to non-profit for purposes of federal financial aid rules. The Department concluded that the chain’s...

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The Real Reasons Why Low-Income Students Don’t Apply To Elite Universities

As a former high-achieving, low-income student, who now teaches at a college serving other first-generation college students, I sighed when I read that top colleges were responding to studies that show students like me were not applying to their institutions by reviewing their recruiting...

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Georgia Campus Sexual Assault Survivors And Advocates Oppose Last Minute Move To Pass Controversial Campus Rape Bill

Georgia’s controversial House Bill 51, which would require colleges and universities to report rapes (and other felonies) to the police whether or not the survivor consents, was unanimously tabled by the state Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday to give the legislature more time to...

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3 Student Loan Tips Every Pre-Law Student Should Know

It’s a common myth among pre-law students that attending a top-tier law school and competing for a position at a big law firm is the only path to a successful legal career. While the corporate law world is a perfect fit for many, it’s certainly not for everyone. After interning...

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Why Is It Still So Hard?

You would think by now I’d be used to it. You’d think it would be no big deal by now. I’ve been doing the “going to college” thing now for five years straight. Four years with my daughter overlapped by three years with my son.
After years of “back to...

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The Sleep Revolution Ignites At Penn

I’ll be honest.
I have just been offered the opportunity to host an event centered around a nationwide movement for more attention to and hopeful change in shut-eye hours, and I’m skeptical.
As a freshman at Penn, I’m not quite convinced that students are going to be eager...

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Trump Supreme Court Nominee's College Newspaper: Don't Use College Writings Against Public Figures

It seems Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, knew reporters would someday be rifling through Columbia University’s library.


Waiting in the yellowing copies of The Federalist Paper, a conservative publication that Gorsuch co-founded and edited while a...

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NCAA Chooses Basketball Over Inclusion

Last year as the HB2 debate in North Carolina took center stage it seemed so many came to the aid of the LGBT community. Bruce Springsteen canceled a few shows the day before he was supposed to perform. Several states banned non-essential travel to the state. And maybe the biggest statement...

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Gay High School Football Player Performed At Halftime In Makeup With Drill Team

Halftime had just started, and my teammates on the Anahuac High School football team in Anahuac, Texas, headed to the locker room. But I headed to the other side of the field where, still wearing my football uniform, I applied some makeup and got ready to do high kicks and splits with the...

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What All First-Generation College Students Must Know

As first appeared in Volume One Magazine.


I began my college career behind the eight ball.


While my grades in high school were decent enough (although by no means valedictorian worthy), my SAT scores were embarrassingly low. When I began college, there was absolutely nothing remarkable...

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UW-Madison Is Ranked The Top Party School For 2017 By Princeton Review

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is ranked the top party school in the nation in the annual rankings released Monday by the Princeton Review.


Following the Badgers, West Virginia University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign came in at Nos. 2 and 3, respectively. It’s...

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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 from...

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Risks Of Fraud In Competency-Based Education

An audit report released earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General could potentially trigger efforts in Congress to eliminate a critical legal requirement for college programs to receive federal Title IV student grants and loans. That would...

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On College Essays, #BlackLivesMatter, and Activism

**Author’s note: This piece is not meant to demonize anyone, but just offer another perspective than what I have been seeing a lot in particularly the Muslim community in response to the young man who was recently accepted into a top tier university using #BlackLivesMatter for his essay....

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Women's Advocates Sue For Data On How Trump's Team Is Handling Campus Sex Assault

The National Women’s Law Center has sued the Department of Education in an effort to pry loose a trove of data related to the agency’s oversight and rules enforcement related to sexual harassment in U.S. schools. 


The nonprofit, which advocates for women’s rights, claims the Department of...

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5 Critical Decisions Millennial Couples Face

The millennial generation, or the 75.4 million adults in the US currently in their 20s-30s, are faced with a myriad of unique life decisions. Statistics from the PEW research center reflect the tendency millennials have to prolong big life decisions such as having children and getting...

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What College Means | HuffPost

I come from a humble family. Living in the heart of Brooklyn, gentrification had brought down its colossal hand and made our home unaffordable. I remember my mother crying because we barely had enough money at the end of the month–because she didn’t know how we would make it. The...

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Managing Insomnia And PLMD As A College Student

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Getting a good night’s sleep as a college student is difficult enough. Between balancing numerous classes, extensive amounts of homework and a social life, one can find it nearly impossible to incorporate enough time for a decent rest.
Now imagine juggling that typical...

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Trump Supreme Court Nominee's Newspaper Mocked Trump Run For President In 1987

The Federalist ― a conservative student publication that President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, co-founded while in college at Columbia University ― once mocked the idea of Trump running for president.


A brief item in the October 1987 issue of The Federalist (then...

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