MTV is famous for a lot of things, including Snookie Polizzi and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino of Jersey Shore Fame, so college financial assistance is not high on the list when you think of the network.
Sometimes one of the requirements for getting your bachelor’s degree is to become an intern. If you’ve ever had an internship, you know that you’ve got to impress by working hard and doing everything you can to move up so you can not only get a good grade for the internship, but also get a great referral when you’re looking for a full-time job after graduation.
Since the suffragettes pushed for voter equality back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women have come a very long way in a host of equality issues, from voting to education, sports, and of course, the workplace.
Forget about the stereotype of the miserable, bitter starving artist, who’s forced to toil away in a job that they hate that has nothing to do with their degree. It’s just not true. In fact, in a recent survey of 13,000 performing and visual arts college graduates who graduated between 1990 and 2009, results showed that the opposite of that particular stereotype was the reality for the vast majority of those surveyed.
A new partnership was recently announced between the Association of Educational Publishers and Creative Commons to help devise an easier and more efficient search method for students to find educational research material on the World Wide Web. The goal of the group is not to usurp giant search engines like Google, Yahoo!, and Bing, but to create a better educational interface for those search engines. The group hopes to create detailed educational search criteria that interfaces with the existing search engines that will give students more relevant hits.
When Mark Zuckerberg was a nerdy freshman at Harvard University, it’s a pretty sure bet that he wasn’t considered one of the cool, sexy new kids on campus. In fact, anyone who watched “The Social Network,” could see that he was an unpopular and weird computer geek, at least as portrayed in the movie. But with the explosion in the last five years of his company, Facebook, he probably looks a lot sexier in retrospect than he really did at the time.
In a boon for students across the country, the Department of Education released new rules regarding certificate and vocational programs at colleges that offer training aimed to “prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation.” Intense scrutiny has been leveled at the billions of dollars that college programs receive from the federal government in the form of student aid. All colleges that offer these types of programs must abide by the new guidelines.
Online students are no different than students at campus-based universities. They have tons of questions regarding particular classes and what they entail. The first thing students should do is to carefully read the online course catalog for information. It should give a fairly detailed class description and requirements.
It’s true: choosing a major can be a confusing process, especially if you have no idea what you want to do for the rest of your life. The good news is you don’t need to know what you want to do for the rest of your life in order to choose a major.
Bill Gates gave online college education a big boost at the Techonomy (Technology + Economy) conference in Lake Tahoe last week, at the same time giving standard campus-based college education a big kick in the butt. Gates, who was just this year awarded his degree from Harvard University more than 30 years after he dropped out, decried traditional “place-based” universities as too expensive and inefficient.