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In a very frank admission, VP Biden discusses how the well intentioned govt intervention has actually backfired and caused the opposite to occur.In a very frank admission, VP Biden discusses how the well intentioned govt... more
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Quite frankly most students these days have been taken for a ride by a system that is out dated and antique. It's another scheme left to rot on the vine while College Executives rake in higher and salary's. Time to move into the 21st century and take full advantage of a technology that is 20 years old and advancing with every year, the INTERNET will work perfectly for those who want to get a higher education! Most students end up rubbing elbows with the Elite's kids to gain contact and access to the upper echelon when going to college. Contacts are of the most importance, this system is totally broke and needs fixing fast. Go ahead and read the article now that I have given you my two bits worth!
October 19, 2011
Many of the protesters occupying Wall Street and other places say they are upset about the rising price of going to college. Tuition and other costs have been going up faster than inflation, and family incomes can't keep up. Despite public outrage about the problem, there's little sign these costs will drop anytime soon.
If you are a veteran of a public university, the jump in tuition at your alma mater might be downright jaw-dropping. Tuition at the University of California, Berkeley, was about $700 a year back in the 1970s. Today, U.C. Berkeley students have to fork over around $15,000 per year. That's a 2,000 percent increase.
There's a simple explanation, according to Sandy Baum, who teaches at George Washington University.
Average Annual Percentage Increases
Inflation-Adjusted Published Prices by Decade, 1980-81 to 2010-11
Notes
In the past decade, tuition and fees at public four‑year colleges and universities increased at an average
rate of 5.6% per year beyond the rate of general inflation. Costs at private schools, adjusted for inflation, have actually decreased.
Source: CollegeBoard
Credit: Stephanie d'Otreppe/NPR
"States are paying less of the cost than they used to," Baum says. She adds that as state budgets shrink, the students' share of paying for education goes up.
Competing for Talent
Berkeley's tuition increase is unusually large, but most public schools, which educate 80 percent of all college students, have seen dramatic increases. Private schools don't rely on state subsidies, and their prices have gone up more slowly in recent years. But they are still rising faster than inflation.
Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education says that's because schools are paying more for talent.
"Now we're competing in a global economy," Hartle says, "so if you want to get the best scientists, the best engineers ... you're literally competing with universities and employers from around the globe."
Not to mention the higher costs for health insurance for all of those expensive faculty and for things like counseling services, which are expanding.
Even as sticker prices climb, student aid has gone up dramatically. For students in private schools, says George Washington University's Baum, the aid increases just about cancel out tuition increases of the past five years.
Financial Aid
Baum says one reason tuition never seems to drop is that universities are not getting more efficient the way other industries are. And some conservative governors are pushing administrators to cut waste and make professors more productive.
Richard Vedder, who runs the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, says the more government aid goes up, the more tuition rises. He says limits on grants and loan subsidies would cap spiraling tuition prices.
"That reduces the demand for college, and that is going to tend to reduce the ability of colleges to raise tuition fees," Vedder says.
Many economists question that link. So does Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, who has pushed for more college aid for low-income students.
In fact, Duncan and others argue that the problem is that grant aid hasn't risen fast enough.
"Today a federal Pell Grant covers only about one-third of what it costs for a public four-year college in state," says Lauren Asher, president of The Institute for College Access and Success in California. "In the 1980s it covered about half; in the 1970s it covered more than 70 percent."
Reduced Means
The problem is compounded because people are less able to pay. Incomes are stagnant, some parents are unemployed, and many can no longer get low-interest home-equity loans because home values have fallen.
So families have turned to federal student loans, and even much more expensive private loans.
"Private loans are much riskier than federal student loans, because they don't come with the important repayment plans, forgiveness programs and other borrower protections that federal student loans provide," Asher says.
The Obama administration has been rolling out a number of measures to help students in danger of falling behind on their federal loan payments.
Nearly a half-million students have signed up for "income-based repayment." The program limits the amount of your income that you have to pay. And officials say many more students could be signing up for this program while they're waiting for the economy to turn around.
Does this not resemble the Housing Bubble of the epic proportions we saw a few years ago?Quite frankly most students these days have been taken for a ride by a system that is... more
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The 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket was released on Sunday, and Wofford College was announced as the #14 seed, playing #3 seed Brigham Young University on Thursday in Denver, Colorado. This season Wofford won the Southern Conference Tournament, defeating the College of Charleston 77-67 to earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season.
The Terriers gathered to watch the selection show in Leonard Auditorium on campus on with an exuberant, capacity crowd on hand. On Monday evening, the team was honored by the city with a large pep rally in downtown Spartanburg (SC).
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as two videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/wofford-terriers-going-to-the-ncaa-tournament-lets-go-dance/The 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket was released on Sunday, and... more
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The 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket was released on Sunday, and Wofford College was announced as the #14 seed, playing #3 seed Brigham Young University on Thursday in Denver, Colorado. The game will be played at 7:00 p.m. ET and be broadcast on CBS.
The Terriers are in the Southeast Region, with Pittsburgh as the #1 seed. Other teams in the Southeast Regional with Wofford are #6 seed St. John’s University and #11 seed Gonzaga. The winners of the two second round games will meet on Saturday.
Wofford is 21-12 on the season. This season Wofford won the Southern Conference Tournament, defeating the College of Charleston 77-67 to earn the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season. It marked the second straight season the Terriers have won 20 or more games.
This piece includes high-resolution color photographs, as well as two videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/wofford-opens-ncaa-tournament-play-against-brigham-young-university-in-denver/The 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Bracket was released on Sunday, and... more
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With a Southern Conference tournament title to defend and a second straight trip to the NCAA tournament on the line, Wofford College refused to let it slip out of their hands. It was back-to-back SoCon Championships as the Wofford men’s basketball team defeated the College of Charleston 77-67 on Monday night at McKenzie Arena in Chattanooga (TN). Down by four at the half, Wofford used strong free-throw shooting in the final minutes to secure the championship. Cameron Rundles scored 21 points in the win, which sends Wofford to its second straight NCAA basketball tournament berth. Wofford is 21-12 on the season and College of Charleston is 24-10 overall.
Wofford awaits Selection Sunday to learn where they will play in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
This piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as two game videos.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/wofford-repeats-as-socon-champs-wins-second-straight-trip-to-ncaa-tourney/With a Southern Conference tournament title to defend and a second straight trip to... more
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- As a keen watcher of lectures online, my initial reaction to this fierce assault on their value was hostile. But after watching this video again, I’ll admit that some valid points are being made.- As a keen watcher of lectures online, my initial reaction to this fierce assault on... more
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Handouts and archived webinar presentations from Bryant & Stratton’s recent three-part series on career-advancement are now available online at http://online.bryantstratton.edu/webinar/.
The handouts, which were originally only available to webinar participants, feature specific tips on how to get ahead in one’s career and offer actionable strategies as a complement to the webinar presentations. The webinar series, which concluded on September 16, included sessions on how to jumpstart one’s career, build a professional brand and build a resilient career. Kim Dority, a seasoned career specialist and author who has been writing about and teaching courses on career development for more than a decade, led the series.Handouts and archived webinar presentations from Bryant & Stratton’s recent... more
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The University of Virginia has just published an online audio archive of the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author's two-year term as the writer-in-residence at Virginia during the late 1950s. In the recordings, William Faulkner talks about his books, his career and events of the day.
This piece includes vintage photographs, a slide show, audio recordings and three documentary short films about Faulkner at the University of Virginia.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/faulkner-at-virginia-prophet-and-poet/The University of Virginia has just published an online audio archive of the Nobel and... more
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American colleges and universities are built on the idea that higher education is a public right but also a privilege.
link :http://www.onlineclasses.org/2010/06/11/top-10-con-artists-in-academic-history/American colleges and universities are built on the idea that higher education is a... more
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May 4th, 2010, will mark the 40th Anniversary of the Kent State Shootings, also known as the Kent State Massacre, which took place at Kent State University in Ohio. It involved the shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others.
Some of the students who were shot had been protesting against the American invasion of Cambodia, which President Richard Nixon had announced in a television address on April 30. Other students who were shot had been walking nearby or observing the protest from a distance. There was a significant nation-wide response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States resulting from a student strike of four million students.
This piece includes vintage photographs, a slide show and a short documentary film about the Kent State Shootings.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/kent-state-the-day-the-war-came-home/May 4th, 2010, will mark the 40th Anniversary of the Kent State Shootings, also known... more
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Books, books, beautiful books! This is a list of biology, ecology, environment, natural history and animal books that are (or will soon be) available to occupy your bookshelves (or your library's bookshelves) and your thoughts.Books, books, beautiful books! This is a list of biology, ecology, environment,... more
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Would you vote for this lot? In this second episode of WORLDbytes’ Royal Society of Arts award winning series, election campaigners and parliamentary candidates from lesser-known political parties get a grilling at a local café in London’s East End. On the menu are unemployment, education, housing, free speech and voter apathy. The Green candidate advocates building on the green belt, the Respect rep says free speech should be qualified and the English Democrat chap says they’re not for profit. The arguments dished up suggest there is no right or left anymore. Watch it and let us know your thoughts.Would you vote for this lot? In this second episode of WORLDbytes’ Royal... more
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UCAS is warning that getting into university is going to be harder and predicts at least 50,000 with good grades won't get on Autumn courses, an increase from last years 30,000.
"Ms Curnock Cook advised students turned down by all their chosen universities not to wait for the clearing process but to apply immediately through the Ucas Extra scheme, which matches candidates to vacancies.
head of Magdalen College School in Oxford, said that the only institutions using Extra were those actively looking to fill “places that aspirational people don’t want to go to”.”
No matter what the arguments, it sounds like school leavers are heading towards some tough decisions for their future.
I wonder if university budget cuts and course merging will play a factor in people missing out on placements.UCAS is warning that getting into university is going to be harder and predicts at... more
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On Sunday, an enthusiastic gathering of Wofford students, alumni and other supporters joined the 2010 Southern Conference basketball champions on the Wofford College campus, and learned the team’s destination for the NCAA Basketball Tournament. Wofford will head to Jacksonville (FL) to play the University of Wisconsin on Friday.
Wofford finished the regular season with a 26-8 record, and Wisconsin enters the tournament with a 23-8 overall record. The trip marks the first time in program history that Wofford has earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament.
The winner of Wofford’s first-round game will then face the winner of the game between No. 5 seed Temple and No. 12 seed Cornell University on Sunday, March 21.
This piece includes color photographs, a video of the East Regional selection announcement at Wofford and a music video.
Please visit my website to view the photographs, and to watch the videos:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/ncaa-basketball-tournament-east-regional-wofford-college-plays-university-of-wisconsin/On Sunday, an enthusiastic gathering of Wofford students, alumni and other supporters... more
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Wofford College used a stifling defense to overcome a long second-half scoring drought to beat Appalachian State University 56-51 on Monday night for the Southern Conference Title and its first NCAA tournament berth. Wofford College is one of the smallest schools playing Division I basketball, with fewer than 1500 students (half of whom are men), and it’s known primarily for its rigorous academic standards.
While relatively few sports fans know very much about Wofford, looking back over this season, the Terriers should have been much more on everyone’s mind. Wofford was one possession away from winning at the University of Pittsburgh in the season opener (they lost by only 3 points), defeated both the University of Georgia and the University of South Carolina from the SEC, and went 15-3 during the regular season in a respected league.
Currently, Wofford is 26-8, winning its 13th straight game and 19 of its last 20 games. So there was a very large crowd of very happy supporters at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte (NC) last night, and Wofford’s tournament victory led to a giddy dancing and singing celebration on the floor.
With the win, the Terriers have earned the conference’s automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Tournament. The 2010 men’s basketball selection show will be held Sunday, March 14 at 6:00 p.m. and will be televised on CBS.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show of photographs and two video highlights of the game.
Please visit my website to view the photographs and slide show, and to watch the two video game highlights:
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/wofford-college-beats-appalachian-state-university-56-51-earns-first-ncaa-tournament-berth/Wofford College used a stifling defense to overcome a long second-half scoring drought... more
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MicroSolved, Inc. (MSI) has developed the 80/20 Rule of Information Security that proposes the concept that 80% of an organizations’ real information security comes from only 20% of the assets and effort put into the program. These 13 security projects will give your organization the most effective information security coverage for the least expenditure of time and resources. These projects, once completed, should allow CIO’s to create an effective, efficient, and standards-based approach to information security…
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/17/the-8020-rule-for-information-security/MicroSolved, Inc. (MSI) has developed the 80/20 Rule of Information Security that... more
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Infosec Island, the new community for IT and information security professionals, today announced that its new enhanced authentication service based on the SyferLock™ GridGuard™ solution, is now live. Deploying this technology provides Infosec Island members with the option to login with a very high level of security for confidential business, personal or security-related communications. SyferLock’s GridOne authentication is available on Infosec Island to all registered members, and membership is free.
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/16/syferlock-gridguard-live-on-infosec-island/Infosec Island, the new community for IT and information security professionals, today... more
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Similar to security assessments, network architecture designs and other projects, a development project, such as this one involves the exchange of confidential data, including in this case, intellectual property designs, requirements documents, test plans, code fragments and road maps. We could have chose to exchange these documents over email, or printed them out and sent them next day parcel post. Instead, we ate our own dogfood and utilized IslandPKI encrypted document and message transfer…
http://information-security-resources.com/2010/02/16/how-a-security-company-applies-security/Similar to security assessments, network architecture designs and other projects, a... more
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