Jason Kincaid of Techcrunch.com reports on the offer of free Amazon Prime–essentially, free shipping on Amazon.com purchases–for college students.
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Amazon offers free Amazon Prime to college students
Monday, August 30th, 2010International program catches on in U.S. schools
Monday, August 23rd, 2010Tamar Lewin of the New York Times reports “the alphabet soup of college admissions is getting more complicated as the International Baccalaureate, or I.B., grows in popularity as an alternative to the better-known Advanced Placement program.”
When a university over-extends admission to their freshman class
Thursday, August 19th, 2010Jacques Steinberg of the New York Times reports “the University of Iowa extended admission this year to several thousand more applicants than it could accommodate on campus in this fall’s freshman class.”
Students turn to online roommate matching service
Monday, August 16th, 2010Isaac Arnsdorf, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, reports students are turning to social media and other online tools to get information about their future roommates or to find a compatible match.
Advice on the transition from applicant to college student
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Jacques Steinberg, contributor to the New York Times, interviews college deans and counselors for advice on making the transition to college. Steinberg also posts useful advice from a current college sophomore.
What happened to studying?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Keith O’Brien, contributor to the Boston Globe, reports “you won’t hear this from the admissions office, but college students are cracking the books less and less. They come with polished resumes and perfect SAT scores. Their grades are often impeccable. Some elite universities will deny thousands of high school seniors with 4.0 grade point averages in search of an elusive quality that one provost called ‘intellectual vitality.’ The perception is that today’s over-achieving, college-driven kids have it–whatever it is. They’re not just groomed; they’re ready. There’s just one problem. On campus, the students aren’t studying.”
Advice on the college interview
Monday, July 26th, 2010The Washington Post offers advice on the college interview. ”The point of the interview is to show that you are a good person and that you are polite and interesting and have a sense of humor about yourself and the unnerving admissions process. That means you have to be, as you have been told many times, yourself, which is not so easy in those circumstances.”
Finding applicants who plagiarize
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Scott Jaschik, a contributor to InsideHigherEd.com, examines the use of plagiarism-detection software Turnitin.com in the college admissions process. ”Some admissions officials, like those at Penn State, welcome the service. They feel that the problem is serious enough that they need help. Others, however, are skeptical, saying that the push by Turnitin will shift the focus away from more serious issues in college admissions and suggests that colleges aren’t capable of uncovering plagiarism themselves.”
Do part-time professors hurt education?
Monday, July 19th, 2010Christopher Magan, staff writer for the Dayton Daily News, reports “as college costs and enrollment continue to rise, many universities are turning to lower-paid part-time professors to educate students. The percentage of full-time professors teaching college classes has plummeted nationally during the past 35 years from 70 to 50 percent. Unions representing professors characterize the shift as a staffing crisis that hurts student achievement.”
The coveted but elusive internship
Thursday, July 15th, 2010New York Times writer Hilary Stout reports on the difficulties of finding a summer internship. ”Between the sputtering economy and updated federal guidelines governing the employment of unpaid interns, many students have had a tougher time than they anticipated in landing resume-enhancing experience this summer.”