Now that college is looming (or is already here), it’s time to change faces and move into social media networks that work for college and future employment success. Think of these changes as student ‘branding,’ or making yourself stand out with efficiency, networking and leadership.
Lindsay Garcia-Yazd, 33-year-old Spanish teacher at Alief Hastings High School, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with one of her 16-year-old male students.
Garcia-Yazdi faces two counts of sexual abuse of a child as well one count of improper relationship with a student - according to documents, Garcia-Yazdi was the boy's Spanish teacher when they had sexual contact three times dating back to Dec. 18. The last time was Jan. 21.
The boy said that they were intimate in the back of a minivan that Garcia-Yazdi drove when she picked him up from his friend's home or other spots. She parked at a public park or along streets and they had sexual intercourse, the documents state the boy told investigators.
Garcia-Yazdi was booked into custody and subsequently released on $130,000 bail.Lindsay Garcia-Yazd, 33-year-old Spanish teacher at Alief Hastings High School, has... more
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NerdcoreLearning.com is launching a very special fantasy game, called "The Healing Blade," to help hardcore geeky med students learn about safe antibiotic use.
This publishing start-up is devoted to developing unique study-aids for medical and health-sciences students. The creators are two docs who have combined their knowledge of medicine and passion for sci-fi.NerdcoreLearning.com is launching a very special fantasy game, called "The... more
Ironically, while the economy is in the tank, statistics reveal that the percentage of college freshmen who plan to major in business is at its lowest level since the mid-1970s.
North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education. Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment skews higher among older students, low-income students, and black and Hispanic students.
In terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women — hoist a mug for female achievement. And certainly, women are primarily in college not because they are looking for men, but because they want to earn a degree.
But surrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night.
These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., and large public universities in states like California, Florida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female. Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as “Girlington.”
Leaving aside complaints about “affirmative action for boys,” less attention has been focused on the social ramifications.
“I was talking to a friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and started grinding,” said Kelly Lynch, a junior at North Carolina, recalling a recent experience.
Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students anywhere. But many of them — men and women alike — said that the lopsided population tends to skew behavior.
“A lot of my friends will meet someone and go home for the night and just hope for the best the next morning,” Ms. Lynch said. “They’ll text them and say: ‘I had a great time. Want to hang out next week?’ And they don’t respond.”
Even worse, “Girls feel pressured to do more than they’re comfortable with, to lock it down,” Ms. Lynch said.
Faculty members and administrators are well aware of the situation. Stephen M. Farmer, North Carolina’s director of admissions, said that the university has a high female presence in part because it does not have an engineering school, which at most schools tend to be heavily male. Also, he said, more young men than women in the state opt to enter the military or the work force directly out of high school.
And the university feels obligated to admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender, Mr. Farmer said. “I wouldn’t want any young woman here to think that there’s somebody we’d rather have here than her,” he said.
Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell said. In this way, some colleges mirror retirement communities, where women often find that the reward for outliving their husbands is competing with other widows for the attentions of the few surviving bachelors.
The loneliness can be made all the more bitter by the knowledge that it wasn’t always this way.North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of... more
Abigail Nichols, 24-year-old teacher formerly at Meadowbrook Academy, has been arrested yesterday for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old boy. She has been charged with lewd and lascivious molestation.
Police arrested Nichols last Tuesday at her home in Ocala. Detectives say the former Meadowbrook Academy teacher was reportedly giving a 16-year-old boy answers to tests and having a sexual relationship with him. Another 15-year-old boy had a similar story.
OPD officials were notified about the alleged incidents in the end of the January
, when a woman told an officer there was a rumor at the school suggesting that last summer Nichols had performed oral sex on the woman's 16-year-old son. Detectives met with the woman's son and another 16-year-old at the police department.
The first boy told Bowman that Nichols taught him 10th-grade history, that he did not have to do homework and that she reportedly gave him answers to quizzes. He said they became friends and, last June, she came to his home. While watching a movie, he said, they kissed and she performed oral sex on him.
The second 16-year-old told the official that when he was 15, he and some friends were hanging out with Nichols and she asked if they wanted to ride in her Jeep. He said while they were in the vehicle, Nichols, who was in the back with him, gave him permission to touch her breast, which he said he did.Abigail Nichols, 24-year-old teacher formerly at Meadowbrook Academy, has been... more
Four months ago, it appeared all but certain that the White House and Democrats in Congress would succeed in overhauling the student loan business and ending government subsidies to private lenders.
President Obama called the idea a “no-brainer” last fall, predicting it would take billions of dollars from the profits of private lenders and give it directly to students, and many colleges were already moving to get loans directly from the federal government in anticipation of the next move by Congress.
But an aggressive lobbying campaign by the nation’s biggest student lenders has now put one of the White House’s signature plans in peril, with lenders using sit-downs with lawmakers, town-hall-style meetings and petition drives to plead their case and stay in business.
Somewhere just outside of Mexico City is one of the most tranquil places in the world; ‘The Floating Gardens.’ This is the premiere example of Aztec ingenuity and farming practices. This area has been the farming headquarters for Mexico City since before even a 200 year old Mountain Man can remember. But deep in the backwoods of the Floating Gardens lie other legends and mysteries, the ‘Island of the Dolls,’ is way back in the deep system of canals and waterways that remind us of the Lake bed history of Mexico City.Somewhere just outside of Mexico City is one of the most tranquil places in the world;... more
We are all frustrated with the current state of our health care
system. But despite the pressing need for real reform, over the past
year we've had to watch as real opportunities to pass progressive
legislation were squandered and lost. We've been waiting for reform
too long to remain silent, so this Valentine's Day it's time to say
what's on our minds.
No one likes breaking up, but sometimes it has to be done. For
Valentine’s Day the Student Healthcare Action Network asks you to end
your un-healthy relationship with a politician, an organization or an
official who has particularly disappointed you during this past year’s
fight over health care reform. We are asking all of you to make your
own short video about your break-up. We will be collecting everyone's
break-up videos on our website and using them in a special Valentine’s
Day action.
Express your frustration, sadness, feelings of betrayal, AND your
continuing commitment to real reform. Let everyone know that the
health care system is not going to fix itself, that we still need
reform more than ever and we won't settle for anything less.
If you want inspiration for your own videos check out our sample
break-ups at www.studenthealthcareaction.org. Then make your video as
straightforward, dramatic, ridiculous, sarcastic, etc. as you want.
The wider variety of videos we get the more exciting they will be to
watch. When you're done with your video, upload it to YouTube and
email us the link between now and February 14th.
You might have someone in mind that you have been just dying to
break-up with, but in case you don't we have included a list of
suggestions below:
The Democrats (for caving to every interest group, for letting fear of
election losses instead of best solutions shape the legislative
debate, etc.)
The Republicans (for putting political gain ahead of the good of the
country, or for spreading misinformation, etc.)
Your own Senator or Representative (not representing your needs or
opinions, caving to lobbyists, etc.)
President Obama (not putting enough pressure on congress, not giving
congress clear direction, taking too long to attack the lies being
spread, etc.)
After you make your own, ask your friends and families to join in!
This Valentine’s Day be true to universal health care, and say so long
to bad legislation.
These blogs will give you a window into the world of a CEO so you can see what they do, how they do it and just what goes on inside upper management in a company so you can learn more without spending a dime.
L'Aquila will suffer further damage when the short process will be approved by the Italian House of Commons. Many investigations are at risk especially those for the collapse of the student's house that killed eleven students during the Aquila earthquake.
These 100 films are worth a watch and won’t even require a trip to rent or borrow, and can help break up those study sessions for your college courses.
If you work with children, here are some facts that you might find helpful, from how the brain affects learning to facts about memory to interesting facts about the brain that you can share with your students.
The following list of the ten best online universities may boggle your mind. You may not have thought about them or even heard about them, but they offer a top-notch education.
