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Graduates will be walking off their college campuses this spring and right into the “real world,” where national unemployment has inched back up to nearly 10% again, the average college debt upon graduating is $20,000, and our economy’s recovery is still fragile and unstable. In fact, this situation of job uncertainty, heavy debt, and financial insecurity is pretty familiar to most Americans. This is great financial advice from blogs and articles intended for “the college grad”, but also as relevant to the rest of us and our own financial life. Continue Reading No Comments April 7th, 2010 College students get a break from ...
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As a recently graduated student, I have seen firsthand what types of programs have been big recently for my peers pursuing advanced degrees. Due to the expensive nature of post-undergraduate education, prospective students are looking for the highest value, in the shortest amount of time, at the best price possible. This has lead many schools to start offering hybrid degrees and combination programs to increase their own admissions rates, as well as cater to what students are seeking. Hybrid Degrees If you are looking to go into a technology-related industry, such as Intellectual Property law, high-tech marketing, etc., many ...
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who was also the school's first president. It was established as an all-male institution on November 26, 1842, on land donated by the Bishop of Vincennes . The university first enrolled women undergraduates in 1972. Today, about 47 percent of the student body is female. Notre Dame's Catholic heritage is evident in the architecture around campus, manifested by the ornate Basilica of the Sacred Heart , together with numerous chapels and religious iconography. The university today is organized into five colleges and one professional school, the oldest of which, the College of Arts and Letters, began awarding degrees in ...
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on West 135th Street is the third of its kind for Capital One, with the others in high schools in the Bronx and in Newark. The mission of the program is to give students real-world money management experience, offer them life skills and put them on the fast track to college. “Before I obtained this position I wasn’t really good with money,” said Matthew Reyes, 17, who was working behind the branch’s lone customer service desk the other day. “Now that I’m dealing with checks, my own personal money and not just my mom’s, you know if you earn it you spend it wiser. I’ve learned how to save my ... Read More
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The G20 meeting has revealed two important things that tell us something about our combined economic future. First we learned that the US lost the battle to try to get everyone back on the Keynesian print-a-thon bandwagon. This tells us something about US leadership in these troubled times. Once-upon-a-time, the US could dictate such things, and those days are apparently over which deserves to be noted. I am a supporter of austerity as the least worst of two paths which I will outline below (the other being printing), but I want to be sure to give the global rejection of the US position on stimulus the proper ...
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Within a few weeks, the governor and state education officials must decide whether to gear up for or give up on the next round of Race to the Top funding. Should California’s next application, if the state takes up the challenge, be broader –reaching out for a larger consensus among districts and unions – or bolder? Eight leaders and respected observers of California education have taken up the invitation to share their views. They include executives with state school boards association, the largest teachers union, education reform non-profits and the state charter schools association, an outspoken teacher and a critic of ...
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This is the first in a Higher Ed Watch series "Revisiting the 9.5 Student Loan Scandal." The series takes a closer look at the origins of the scandal with the purpose of trying to resolve unanswered questions and dispel lingering myths surrounding it. ] As the Bush administration nears its end, key questions remain about its role in a scandal that allowed student loan companies to bilk taxpayers out of more than $1 billion by overcharging the government for subsidy payments on loans they made to students. At Higher Ed Watch, we think it's especially vital to get answers to the following questions: what did the political ...
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They were the initial cheerleaders of Barack Obama’s candidacy who stuck with him on the long slog to Nov. 4. And on Election Day, young people voted overwhelmingly to send him to the White House while exceeding their 2004 turnout levels by at least 2.2 million, according to researchers who track the voting habits of youth. Between 21.6 and 23.9 million Americans in the age group from 18 to 29 years cast a ballot, up from about 19.4 million in 2004, numbers-crunchers at the Center for Information and Research of Civic Learning and Engagement, or Circle, announced on Wednesday. Based on those figures, more young people went ...
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is not only a battle to decide who reaches the quarter-finals of this World Cup. The game in Bloemfontein also presents an opportunity to assess the ideological and cultural differences between these two great footballing rivals. Ever since England's heartbreaking semi-final defeat by West Germany in Italy in 1990, English football has undergone a commercial revolution which has made the Premier League the richest in the world. On the plus side, that financial success, created by the breakaway of the Premier League in 1992 , has helped finance a vast improvement in the nation's stadiums, more entertaining football and ...
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I’ve gotten a lot of questions from TechRepublic members about the best ways to direct their careers. There is the inevitable certification vs. degree debate as well as questions about experience vs. education. Since each situation is unique, there is no clear answer across the board. What I’ve decided to do in the coming weeks, however, is feature personal stories from top IT pros as to how they got into IT and succeeded at it. I hope you’ll find these stories useful in making your own career moves. This week, our featured guest is Jeanne DeVore, the Technology Manager of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. ...
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The following op-ed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, and Obama White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett appeared on the Huffington Post website . See also the April 28 press release . While Americans from Wall Street to Main Street focus on much-needed financial reforms that will set and enforce clear rules across the financial marketplace, we also need to recognize that most Americans don’t have the knowledge and skills they need to make the right financial decisions for themselves and their families. Last year, the FINRA Investor Education Foundation’s National ...
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Interdisciplinary teams of business, engineering, and geosciences students from The University of Texas at Austin participated in an inaugural specialized training course, known as BP Energy Play, last weekend. The 47 student participants first attended talks by a training consultant who was specially flown in from the United Kingdom by BP to instruct the students. The participants were then split into teams, each which ran its own mock exploration and production company, utilizing BP’s proprietary software for the simulation. The teams then competed by trying to maximize the profits of their own firms over a ten year time span, ...
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