Posts Tagged ‘ University ’

This Is Why College Costs So Much

What has risen 400% in 25 years? Not housing prices in San Francisco, but that’s an excellent guess. Nope, it’s college tuition. That one-liner factoid takes me out at the knees and makes me want to hurl. [ READ MORE ]

Finding the Good at Penn State

Wiley comes at the problem trying to figure out what it means to be at Penn State and how to go about finding the amazingness that is still Penn State[ READ MORE ]

Mormons, Trojans, and Sex

Let’s all watch me try to navigate this post. It’s about sex and Trojans and Mormons and how well 141 universities assist their undergrads in traversing the seas of collegiate sex. The odds of me crashing and burning into a twisted pile of political incorrectness and offending everyone on my way down are as excellent as a bloated road-kill raccoon is to finally pop in July--one hard wave of heat moving up from the asphalt and nothing will smell good ever again[ READ MORE ]

SATs and Chilling Out, For Eff’s Sake

When I took the Rite of Passage for American High School Students (standardized tests written by pain-in-the-ass adults whose heads are shoved so far up their exit ramps that they can no longer navigate reality), I must say I had a rather cavalier attitude about the whole thing. Almost twelve years of public school had made me quite the badass standardized test taker; I was unconcerned[ READ MORE ]

2011 ECAR National Study of Undergrads and Information Technology

Feel free to geek out on this awesome infographic from EDUCAUSE. It's the snappy visual to explain the ECAR National Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2011 Report. You can read all about the study and see the ginormous version of the graphic[ READ MORE ]

How To Avoid Graduating College Summa Cum Debt

Her main piece of advice is to flat out not head off to college at all “unless or until you can afford it.” Not the standard higher education version of the American Dream. Usually everyone’s telling young adults to do whatever they and their parents can in order to acquire a college diploma, regardless of how many decades beyond graduation both parties will be swimming in debt[ READ MORE ]

Initial College Attendance of Low-Income Young Adults

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) has a report out that shows the colleges low-income students head for first tend to be for-profit schools. That particular population is underrepresented in four-year public and private colleges, and overrepresented in the for-profit schools. All of which is not new, but it does mean fairness in higher education has still not been achieved[ READ MORE ]

Get Smart About Choosing A College

It turns out parents and students are less than rational when it comes to choosing institutions of higher learning for the prospective college student’s matriculation. Paying for the education venture twists everyone’s grey matter into knots as well. Let’s keep our heads in the game, people![ READ MORE ]

Annual Buying Calendar for Broke-Ass College Students

If you’re a planner and would like to mark your calendar now for the next twelve months’ worth of strategic shopping, feel free to use the jelly-filled orbs in your sockets to scan WiseBread’s Buying Calendar. It'll save you more money than those cinder-block shelves and eating all that ramen[ READ MORE ]

This Is What Professors Think About When You’ve Answered the Question Absolutely Wrong

Ever wonder what your profs think about you and your wretched performance after you’ve fully hosed a final exam answer? Female Science Professor writes her ponderings so we can all know how our eff-ups can throw our professor for a loop. [ READ MORE ]