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Education Tips

How to Survive a Disastrous Grade

You have just finished the most challenging assignment or exam of the semester and believe that you’ve done well.

Education Tips

Term Paper Essentials for College Students

As much as you may wish that you did not have to do them, term papers are a fact of academic life. Simply put, a term paper is a lengthy essay or dissertation, one based on a subject that may or may not be of your liking or choosing.

Education Tips

How to Pull Up Your College Grades (Before it is Too Late)

Your grades are in trouble and if they do not improve, you may find yourself drummed out of college.

NCAA Basketball

NJIT Basketball Plays Like Champs

You say that you have never heard of the NJIT Highlanders? Likely, that means that you are not much of a men’s college basketball fan.

Academics

Your College is Not Your Fate!

The pressure to get into a certain college or university is a tremendous one for numerous students. Indeed, some families take extraordinary measures to ensure that their children are accepted by the finest institutions and are promptly enrolled.

Education Tips

How to Enhance Your Transfer Credentials

You are a community, technical or junior-college student intent on transferring to a four-year school once you get your associate degree. These days, it is much easier to transfer to a four-year college from a two-year program, especially once you have your degree.

Campus News

Massachusetts Colleges Consider Merging

Much has been made in the news lately about the pending demise of Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Indeed, that all-women college in local Virginia stunned students, faculty and alumnae earlier this month when the administration announced that the school would shutter its doors at the end of this academic year.

NCAA Basketball

Mens’ Basketball Postseason Tournaments: Beyond the NCAA

College basketball is big business for men’s and women’s teams alike. While the women may participate in the NCAA or NIT during the postseason, the men have two additional tournaments to engage in: the College Basketball Invitational and the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.

Campus News

6 Signs Your College Will Soon Close Its Doors

Administrators announced earlier this month that the all-women college will shut its doors at the end of this academic year.

Campus News

Student Aid Bill of Rights Signed by Obama

President Barack H. Obama has made good on one of his higher education promises. On Tuesday the president signed a memorandum at Georgia Tech in Atlanta instructing the Department of Education and other federal agencies to discover ways to help students with loan repayments.

Campus News

Sweet Briar College: End of the Line

There are very few single gender colleges and universities left in the United States as most now are co-educational.

Personal Advice

How to Avoid the Scourge of Identity Theft

Identity theft only happens to people with jobs and never to impoverished college students, right? Think again.