Many for-profit colleges and universities sell their services based on a near-promise: Our degrees will get you a job. But there is no reliable way of measuring success rates when it comes to employment. That doesn’t stop students from piling up huge debt in the hopes of getting a dream job.
Report Finds Low Graduation Rates at For-Profit Colleges – NYTimes.com
November 24, 2010 By
A new report on graduation rates at for-profit colleges by a nonprofit research and advocacy group charges that such colleges deliver “little more than crippling debt,” citing federal data that suggests only 9 percent of the first-time, full-time bachelor’s degree students at the University of Phoenix, the nation’s largest for-profit college, graduate within six years.
via Report Finds Low Graduation Rates at For-Profit Colleges – NYTimes.com.
Apple iOS 4.2 Arrives, Makes Find My iPhone Free | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
November 22, 2010 By
Apple’s long-awaited universal iOS update is available today to everyone using an iPad or post-3G iPhone or iPod Touch. The big features have been well-known and the release candidate’s been out for a while, but Apple still managed to add a few surprises to the official release.
Apple iOS 4.2 Arrives, Makes Find My iPhone Free | Gadget Lab | Wired.com.
Kaplan and the Washington Post
November 22, 2010 By
November 19, 2010
Kaplan Higher Education runs for-profit colleges that are under intense scrutiny for misleading students about their future success in order to rake in federal student loans – loans that students often default on. Kaplan Higher Education is also the highly profitable subsidiary of the Washington Post Company which is ever-more reliant on those profits to support its struggling newspaper. Tamar Lewin of the New York Times explains how Kaplan’s business interests are compromising the Post’s journalistic integrity
via On The Media.
Role Of Nurses In Primary Care May Expand : NPRCourt upholds in-state tuition for some immigrants – Yahoo! News
November 15, 2010 By
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More Colleges Are Using Hand-Held Devices as Classroom Aids – NYTimes.com
November 15, 2010 By
More Colleges Are Using Hand-Held Devices as Classroom Aids
More than half a million college students now use wireless devices to register class attendance and take quizzes.
The ‘Path’ to Social Network Serenity Is Lined With 50 Friends | Epicenter | Wired.com
November 15, 2010 By
» The ‘Path’ to Social Network Serenity Is Lined With 50 FriendsThree ideas lurk behind Path, a new social service that launches Monday as an iPhone app. As CEO Dave Morin explains it, the first two are the products of scientific research. As a former Facebook exec — Morin was responsible for the Facebook platform that supported apps from outside developers — he
Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) 2010-2011 eIntern Positions
November 15, 2010 By
Virtual Student Foreign Student eInternship Positions
USF lands top leader in marine science – St. Petersburg Times
November 15, 2010 By
USF lands top leader in marine science – St. Petersburg TimesStephen Murawski was chief scientist for the National Marine Fisheries Service. Five years is a long time to be the top scientist at the National Marine Fisheries Service. It is, says the man who currently holds the position, “a burnout job.”
