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  General College News
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 		Hard-Up College Students Turning To Food Stamps
posted: 6 hours ago   source: consumerist.com  
Being in college and having an empty wallet tend to go hand-in-hand. A full course load can make it difficult for students to find steady work, and in many college towns the work that's available isn't going to pay for very much. But while my fellow students were undergoing (legal) drug trials and donating whatever bodily fluid they could get a few cents for, some in the current generation of cash-strapped collegians...
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  College Admissions
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 		Sneaking Into Class From China
posted: 11 hours ago   source: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com  
There are now 57,000 Chinese undergraduates at American universities. Five years ago, there were just 10,000. Many top private universities now have freshman classes with 15% foreign students or more. In many cases, according to anecdotal evidence and hard-data surveys, the successful Chinese applicants will have cheated their way into college.
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  Tuition & Financial Aid
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 		Illegal in U.S., Paid Agents Overseas Help American Colleges Recruit Students
posted: 11 hours ago   source: nytimes.com  
Green River Community College (WA), 45 minutes south of Seattle, has no special overseas cachet, no global name recognition — but it has enrolled 1,400 international students this year, most of them recruited by overseas agents who get 15% of the $9,732 first-year tuition. In the U.s>, however, it is illegal to pay recruiters for each student they bring in.
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  Campus Finances
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 		Taking More Seats on Campus, Foreigners Also Pay the Freight
posted: 12 hours ago   source: nytimes.com  
This is the University of Washington’s new math: 18% of its freshmen come from abroad, most from China. Each pays tuition of $28,059, about three times as much as students from Washington State. And that, according to the dean of admissions, is how low-income Washingtonians — more than a quarter of the class — get a free ride.
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  Member College News
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 		Drexel plans $97 million housing, retail project
posted: 12 hours ago   source: philly.com  
Drexel University, in partnership with a Texas-based developer, has launched a $97 million student-housing and retail-development plan. The 19-story tower and two eight-story townhouse-style buildings will offer housing for 869 students and 11 storefronts, including an anchor restaurant and a retail store yet to be named.
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  College Admissions
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 		Colleges caught in obsession over rankings
posted: Feb 5th   source: msnbc.msn.com  
When US News & World Report debuted its list of "America's Best Colleges" nearly 30 years ago, the magazine hoped its college rankings would be a game-changer for students and families. Today, colleges obsess over every incremental shift in the rankings and embarrass themselves in the process. Colleges spend billions on financial aid for high-scoring students who don't actually need the money,...
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  College Admissions
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 		Colleges adapt to marketplace
posted: Feb 2nd   source: philly.com  
In January and February, numerous colleges send e-mail to HS counselors with headings such as "Scholarships still available at ___ University" and "We've extended our deadline." They're hoping to attract well-qualified applicants who may have gotten a late start on the application process or been disappointed in the early fall rounds.
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  College Admissions
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 		College Says It Exaggerated SAT Figures for Ratings
posted: Jan 31st   source: nytimes.com  
Claremont McKenna College, a small, prestigious California school, admitted that for the past six years, it has submitted false SAT scores, exaggerated by 10-to-30 points, to publications like U.S. News & World Report that use the data in widely-followed college rankings. The VP and Dean of Admissions is no longer employed by the school.
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  Member College News
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 		Olivet College Signs On With National Education's SAGE Tuition Advantage Program
posted: Jan 30th   source: nationaled.net  
Olivet College has signed on to offer its students SAGE Tuition Advantage, an attractive 0% APR financing option designed to help participating colleges promote student retention, increase net tuition revenue and lower discount rates. The innovative program is attractive to colleges because it is low cost for families, generates cash flow for schools and provides third-party loan management.
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  Member College News
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 		Savannah College of Art and Design Joins Tuition Rewards®
posted: Jan 30th   source: secure.tuitionrewards.com  
The Savannah College of Art and Design, offering more than 40 programs of study to prepare talented students for professional careers in graphic design, animation, photography, fashion and illustration, has joined the Tuition Rewards private college and university enrollment consortium. SCAD becomes the 4th Georgia member & the 7th member specializing exclusively in the arts.
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  Member College News
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 		Bradley University Joins Tuition Rewards®
posted: Jan 30th   source: secure.tuitionrewards.com  
Bradley University, offering its 6,000 students a world-class education linking academic excellence, experiential learning and leadership development with an entrepreneurial spirit, is 2012’s first new member of the Tuition Rewards private colleges and university enrollment consortium. 21 Illinois independent colleges now participate in the nation's largest college savings program.
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  Member College News
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 		Dominican students prepare to present at NCUR
posted: Jan 30th   source: dominican.edu  
Dominican students will travel to Weber State University in Utah this March to present their original research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR)
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  Member College News
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 		72 King’s students participating in spring internship program
posted: Jan 30th   source: kings.edu  
Seventy-two junior, senior, and graduate level King’s College students are participating in spring semester internships at 53 sponsoring organizations.
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  Member College News
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 		Duquesne Programs Encourage Duquesne Undergrads in Hands-on Research
posted: Jan 30th   source: newsroom.duq.edu  
Through the student-friendly class sizes offered at Duquesne University and faculty encouragement, undergraduate students are supported in gaining significant hands-on research that is not always available at other schools.
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  Member College News
34
 		Pratt - Design Innovator Todd Oldham to Speak on Legendary Designer Alexander Girard on February 14
posted: Jan 30th   source: pratt.edu  
Design innovator Todd Oldham will speak on legendary designer Alexander Girard, whose distinctive career is celebrated in a new monograph by Oldham and writer Kiera Coffee, at Pratt Institute at 6 PM on Tuesday, February 14, in Higgins Hall Center Section Auditorium at 61 St. James Places (corner of Lafayette) in Brooklyn. The lecture with Oldham is free and open to the public; however, seating priority will be given...
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  Member College News
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 		Author, Environmentalist, Bill McKibben to Speak at Endicott
posted: Jan 30th   source: endicott.edu  
Bill McKibben believes that we have changed the planet in such a fundamental way that it is no longer the same planet. On Thursday, February 9th at 7:00 pm in the Wax Academic Center Auditorium, Endicott College, 376 Hale Street, Beverly, he will explain why he called his new book Eaarth. The lecture, “Eaarth, A New Planet”, is free and open to the public. McKibben’s dire message is mixed with optimism.
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  Member College News
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 		Two Bradley University students will intern at the Super Bowl
posted: Jan 30th   source: bradley.edu  
Two Bradley University Sports Communication students have been selected by NBC/Universal as interns for the Super Bowl in Indianapolis on February 5.

Seniors Zach Keesee of Ransom, Illinois, and Josh Koebert of Germantown, Wisconsin, were selected earlier this month and will begin work on Monday at NBC offices in Indianapolis. They will have writing and public relations assignments in the days leading up to the...
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  Member College News
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 		Stephenson Center for Appalachia presents David Haney and Lisa Baldwin with program on Bluegrass and early country music Feb 9
posted: Jan 30th   source: enews.lmc.edu  
The Stephenson Center for Appalachia at Lees-McRae College presents an escape from the midwinter blues. If you are looking for entertainment spiced with education, join us for a musical evening on Thursday, February 9, when David Haney and Lisa Baldwin will present a program on Bluegrass and early country music in Appalachia. Starting at 7:00 p.m. in Evans Auditorium, these two well-known High Country musicians will...
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  Member College News
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 		Pioneering SCAD students explore crowd-funded entrepreneurship
posted: Jan 30th   source: scad.edu  
Entrepreneurship runs deep with many students. In some ways, it's an essential part of who they are as artists. Taking chances at something that's never been done and seeing what comes of it is what drives many artists and designers. It's no surprise then that so many SCAD students are using the crowd-funded project site Kickstarter, and have for some time.
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  Member College News
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 		Trinity Christian Students Work in Haiti during Anniversary of Earthquake: Photogallery
posted: Jan 30th   source: trnty.edu  
January 12, 2012, marked the 2nd anniversary of the 7.0 earthquake that devastated the country of Haiti; it also marked the sixth day of service of Trinity students on the Hope for Haiti Interim trip.
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