New Approach to Community College Transfers

With the Northeast projected to experience a decline in high school graduates, tuition-dependent liberal arts colleges in the region are looking for new ways to recruit students.

And the trend keeps heading in my predicted direction.

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The global downturn has been a brutal awakening for the youngest members of the work force

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/394910_genyonline07.html

Florida Matters “Brain Drain”

Go to a State University in Florida You should listen to this.

Transferring to Florida Institute of Technology

Visit the Transfer Student Website

http://www.fit.edu/ugrad/adminfo/transferreq.htm

Refer to “Courses that Count” pages for each major

http://www.fit.edu/ugrad/adminfo/CoursesthatCount.htm

Participate in the Florida Tech Connection Program

http://www.fit.edu/ugrad/adminfo/transferreq.htm

Enroll in the Fast Track Masters Program

http://www.fit.edu/ugrad/documents/FastTrackMasters_Current.pdf

Visit campus!

http://www.fit.edu/ugrad/visit/index.htm

Transferring to St Leo

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Transferring to University of Miami

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Transferring To Stetson

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College degree an overrated product

This is Marty Nemko.  He thinks college isn't always a wise choice for everyone.   I agree.

You can read his argument here.

It's like "College Week" on MarketPlace

It's time to study the value of college

College education costs continue to soar at the same time studies show college graduates getting paid less. Commentator David Frum says Americans should re-examine the real value of a college degree in today's economy.

Textbook costs getting hard to cover

A growing chunk of college costs is the price of textbooks, on which the typical undergraduate spends $900 a year. So a group of college professors is calling for low-priced and free texts online. Congress is getting involved, too.

In digging these up I also found for you this story about consolidating student loans. It's from March, but still good.

Stanford-- Now Fee Free

In a radical change to its financial aid program, Stanford University will announce today that it will no longer charge tuition to students whose families earn less than $100,000 a year.
In addition, the university will waive room and board fees for students whose families earn less than $60,000 a year.

SFGate story here

Dear Arianna, There's a better way . . .

How Long Must I Sing This Song

It's not the school.

It's not the degree.

It's your personal plan.

You need a five year plan.

Use the map, take the journey

For the last few weeks I've had an outpouring of love on the Facebook/MySpace scene.

Last week I received a letter that left me speechless for a bit.

This morning a former Florida peep sent me this message: 

So, here is my status update . . .

I did look into Kettering seriously and it was one of my main options, but I did not end up there. I still can't believe it today, but I got a major private scholarship (30k per year) and ended up at the University of Colorado at Boulder. I love it out here and I like the school... I am still getting used to all the changes in my life. Fortunately I had already done a lot of the volunteering and other such things to build my resume, which no doubt had a positive effect on my scholarship application. I hope that other students follow your advice and get into some of these activities, hopefully with an eye on doing something good for the college and community. It is tragic, I think, for people to do good only for the promise of some perceived personal benefit. Anyway, I feel utterly grateful and fortunate to be here with this amazing scholarship and wonderful area. I hope this message finds you healthy and happy.

I take now real credit for this peep's latest success. I just gave the peep a map, but it was all the peeps journey.  It could be your journey too.  Because if you are reading this blog you've probably been given a map from me in the form of a book, lecture or conversation.  You can make this system work for you and achieve amazing things and create a better society to boot.  

Chipotle was started by an art history major

More proof that it is not your degree, but how you use it.

Favorite Quote: He knew nothing about business, having majored in art history at the University of Colorado before training as a chef at the Culinary Institute of America. Undaunted, he moved back to his hometown of Denver, where his normally supportive dad didn’t initially share his son’s vision.

Here's the whole article.

NPR's take on Yale 's Student Aid Overhaul

Here's the story.

And here's why I disagree with one point in the story.  

Despite what the guy from The Chronicle says, I think this is a win-win for everybody. 

By offering more aid to middle class kids and below Harvard, Yale, Penn etc get more of the worlds best and brightest.  God for them it’s a wise investment.  Today’s students are tomorrows donors.  

Brilliant peeps are now able to become all they can.  These are people who were already going to a good school now they can add these schools to their list as well.  Excellent.

This is a non-issue for private liberal arts schools.  They will just get some other brilliant peep.  Remember the Doritos 

ad, Crunch all you want.  We’ll make more?  Well, the same is true for striving college students. 

There are all ready more of us than slots at all the good schools and all this good programs.  This just creates more opportunity for all of us. 

Oh and Princeton--were waiting to hear from you.