College

How Americans Pay For College

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:01:52 -0800

According to the latest survey results that were just released by Sallie Mae, here’s how the average American student pays for college: students borrow 23 percent, parents borrow 16 percent, 15 percent comes from grants or scholarships, ...

Isle of Man 1983 King Williams College Set F/U - 0.80 GBP

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:00:09 -0800

ISLE of MAN 1983 150th Anniv. of King Williams College set of stamps fine used. SG Nos: 251/4.

Top 25 College Football Rankings

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:00:46 -0800

The new AP Top 25 College Football are out … and little has changed … except for one team on the move from the SEC … Vanderbilt! Vandy is ranked in the top 25 for the first time in 24 years. ...

Yet another ranking: Internet searches.

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:00:12 -0800

Little know Global Language Monitor jumped into College rankings by using a “trendtopper media buzz analysis f the nation’s colleges and universities” based on “their appearance on the Internet, throughout the Blogosphere, ...

College Credits To Campaign For Obama

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:00:13 -0800

A taxpayer-financed university in Massachusetts was offering students college credits to work for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign before a national news organization began investigating the unethical arrangement this week. ...

Predicting College Success

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:00:22 -0800

The best predictor of college success is not the SAT, but rather tests that examine knowledge of a standardized curriculum, such as SAT subject tests, said [Harvard's Dean of Admissions William] Fitzsimmons. ...

What Was David Foster Wallace Like As a Teacher'

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:19 -0800

(2) Your instructor has taught intro lit courses before, but not for several years, and never before at a college this selective. The upshot is that there may be a certain pedagogical clunkiness about this section of English 67. ...

College Rankings

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:00:41 -0800

Whether you live by them or not, published college rankings affect every campus, even if only through the effort expended in discounting them. If the institution feels the pressure to actually rank, by which we always mean rank highly, ...

Community College …

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:00:18 -0800

A majority of the seniors graduating in June will go on to post-secondary education and probably choose Community College. Why' The reason is simple … cost … the per unit cost = $20. The second reason may be the variety of courses ...

September 19, 2008: Hopkins Forest Fall Festival

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:02:05 -0800

Hopkins Forest was donated to Williams College by the widow of Colonel Amos Lawrence Hopkins, the son of college president Mark Hopkins, in 1934. In 1971 the forest expanded from 1600 to 2500 acres and is now a central place for ...

Yet another ranking: Internet searches.

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:00:30 -0800

2, Columbia University, 2, Williams College. 3, University of Michigan,, 3, University of Richmond. 4, Univ. of California, Berkeley, 4, Middlebury College. 5, Stanford University, 5, Wellesley College. 6, University of Chicago ...

September 23, 2008: Winners of Bushnell Faculty Award in Teaching ...

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:01:43 -0800

23, 2008 -- Williams College has announced the recipients of the college's Nelson S. Bushnell '20 Faculty Awards. Since 1995, the annual award has honored faculty members whose practice in writing and in teaching conforms notably to ...

Wind Energy Technology Instructor / Mesalands Community College...

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:01:24 -0700

Mesalands Community College/Tucumcari, NM Wind Energy Technology Instructor Mesalands Community College seeks a Wind Energy Technology Instructor for our North American Wind Research and Training Center. ...

September 23, 2008: "Media, Politics, and the Iraq War," Subject ...

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:00:24 -0700

22, 2008 -- Washington Bureau Chief (McClatchy) John Walcott '71; Albany Times Union editor in chief Rex Smith; and Williams College Professor of International Relations Michael MacDonald will take a hard look at political affairs on ...

Trendspotting: Kids Drink in College

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:02:09 -0700

Kids in college. They drink underage in college. I drank underage in college. You drank underage in college. If you didn’t drink underage in college, you were probably wasting your time. As long as you don’t get behind the wheel, ...

Nazi-Hunting Begins at Home for One-Man Show at CCC Theatre

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:11:09 -0700

Cayuga Community College will present the show Notes to the Motherland in the college's Bisgrove Community Theatre on Friday, October 10, at 8:00 pm The live performance will be free and open to the public. ...

College Rankings

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:00:10 -0700

You can’t begin to imagine the disappointment I felt last week while on vacation; my laptop was turned off (no Internet, alas) and I knew that I was totally missing out on US News and World Report’s annual college ranking list: ...

Professor publishes new college rankings

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:00:22 -0700

Dr. Richard Vedder, a professor of economics and the founder of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity,created rankings that are based largely on alumni success, calculated by how many alumni appear in Who’s Who in ...

Karen Stabiner: US News & World Report College Rankings: Let the ...

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:00:19 -0700

US News & World Report, the 600-pound gorilla of college rankings, may have to overhaul its law school rankings because law schools have figured out how to play the game better than the magazine that dreamed up the rules in the first ...

Comment on Forbes Offers New, Different College Rankings by Testing

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:00:15 -0700

I won’t call Forbes’ methodology perfect - it surely isn’t - but I’m glad we have access to a different ranking, especially one that takes into account success after graduation. If we went to a doctor for a serious illness, ...