It’s commencement time for many HBCUs. Last week I spoke at Fisk University and Saturday I address the graduates at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.…
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For public colleges and universities, the march out of the recession has become a long, slow slog. State appropriations for higher education have been gutted. The federal stimulus money that sustained colleges for several years is just about gone. Enrollment keeps climbing, the demand for financial aid remains high, and the average annual tuition increase is […]
Junior Josh Thompson Wins The 2011 Madness Before Midnight Slam Dunk Contest By Dunking Over His Mom. Judge Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins, A Big Fan. The 6-foot-5, 200-pound forward from Wagner College in Staten Island, N.Y., risked a tough welcome home had he not successfully completed a daring dunk that placed his mom at risk […]
The University of North Carolina has placed its football program on two years probation and vacated wins from the 2008 and 2009 seasons as a result of an NCAA investigation into impermissible benefits and academic misconduct. UNC’s response to the NCAA’s June 21 Notice of Allegations, which was due Monday and released – with redactions […]
Creating a student budget plan is an important step every student can take to assess his or her financial wellness. A college student budget can help you keep track of your expenses, analyze your assets and income and set financial goals for yourself. How To Survive Unemployment & Keep Financially Fit And whether those goals […]
The Morehouse alum is an avid basketball fan and rarely misses a Knicks game, but it’s education and minority teachers that currently top his priority list. Spike will join U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan in Atlanta for a town hall meeting at Morehouse College on January 31st to encourage more African-American males to go into […]
VIA: NEWSONE.COM Public high school students in New Haven now have another reason to go to college: free tuition. City and school officials announced on Tuesday that a new program, called New Haven Promise, will offer to pay eligible students’ way through any public college or university in Connecticut. The program will also pay up […]
VIA: MONEY.CNN.COM Ever wonder what happened to your high school valedictorian? He or she might just have wound up in Washington, D.C. That metro area has the nation’s highest percentage of residents with college degrees. Call it America’s brainiest place to live. In the District and surrounding suburbs, 47.3% of people 25 years or older […]
All great businesses start with a bright idea. The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine today release their eighth rankings of 25 top graduate and undergrad university programs for budding entrepreneurs, whose bright ideas can turn into successful businesses.
Before you start school in the fall, you will have to know great study techniques. These include using a lot of repetition; studying in a comfortable atmosphere; taking frequent breaks from reading; focusing heavily on the summaries and captions in your textbooks; studying intensively at night before a big test; and thinking critically while going […]
