In Admissions, we’re used to sending emails instead of direct mail and holding online open houses instead of always doing in-person events. All in the omnipresent pursuit of doing more with smaller budgets. Now, Binghamton University is applying that same practice to its new capital
Did you know that? Today is National High Five Day. It started at the University of Virginia. Cool, right? http://www.nationalhighfiveday.com/
Is “Faculty” to be used as a single noun? Or as a plural noun? Discuss.
As a native New Yorker (the state, I mean…not the city) I grew up in the NY school system, AP exams, Regents and all. While I didn’t attend a SUNY school, naturally many of my friends did. So, it’s does my ol’ Central New York
It makes sense, when you think about it, but it still seems odd at first. Colleges have begun to outsource the grading of students’ papers, exams, etc. I mean, everything else is being outsourced, so why not this, right? Technology makes it easy to share
“No Child Left Behind” received overwhelming bipartisan support when it was signed into law by President Bush in 2002. The law requires that schools test all students every year in grades three through eight, and report their scores separately by race, ethnicity, low-income status, disability
OK, OK, so maybe the student-loan bill didn’t deliver as much as originally hoped, but the positive impact this is going to have on community colleges can’t be denied. President Obama called the student lending overhaul “one of the most significant investments in higher education
Yesterday, the House of Representatives approved an overhaul of the student loan industry, eliminating a private student-loan system with government subsidies and replacing it with a new system which provides for government distributing loans directly to students. By getting rid of the middle man, the
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that Congress has reached their final agreement, after months of negotiations, to overhaul the government’s student-loan system. This legislation would have the Education Department giving loan money directly to colleges and their students instead of the current system
That’s how much advertisers paid per second to have a commercial air during the Superbowl. One hundred and three thousand three-hundred and thirty three dollars. Per second! That’s a lot of money. But it’s totally worth it to reach so many consumers, right? I’m sure
