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On Campus
Notes in the Margins: Pro wrestling, gap years and tuition discounts
Want To Study Pro-Wrestling In College? You Can! Ever dreamed studying professional wrestling? Well, now you can at a Florida college! Full Sail University, a for-profit college based in Winter Park, Fla., announced a partnership with World Wrestling Ent...
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News24
Some observations of South Florida, from an outsider
As a native New Yorker, I once held the attitude that New York City ruled the universe. After traveling to and fro, I'm more open minded and have since relinquished that attitude. To date, my favorite place is a little city called Durham, NC. with some c...
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Inside Higher Ed
Public colleges outsource online teaching coaches with new service
Public colleges without deep pockets can face challenges as they seek to ramp up online course offerings. For one thing, it’s not easy to quickly recruit the teaching assistants or “coaches” needed to help faculty members manage larger classes and keep s...
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The News-Press
Edison State Collge president search continues with three more interviews
Visit news-press.com throughout the day and follow higher education reporter Dave Breitenstein on Twitter at @D_Breitenstein for updates as the Edison State College search committee interviews candidates for president of the college. Todays first intervi...
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Naples Daily News
Edison presidential candidates tout communication skills, community involvement
Restoring trust and establishing open lines of communication were themes during Edison State College's first round of interviews with presidential hopefuls. "I think we heard that very clearly and very loudly," said Ann Berlam, chair of the search adviso...
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The State
More private colleges offering tuition discounts
WASHINGTON — The cost of a college education continues to increase faster than inflation; a phenomenon that's roiling family budgets and spurring calls for action on Capitol Hill. But with a little digging, parents and students can find cost-cutting deal...
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The USF Oracle
Task force may discuss university specialization
Though Gov. Rick Scott’s higher education reform task force is still in its formative stages, task force members may discuss reducing duplicate university offerings and improving efficiency across the Florida university system. The Florida Blue Ribbon Ta...
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San Antonio Express
A generation hobbled by college debt
ADA, Ohio — Kelsey Griffith graduates today from Ohio Northern University. To start paying off her $120,000 in student debt, she is already working two restaurant jobs and will soon give up her apartment to live with her parents. Her mother, who co-signe...
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Des Moines Register
Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, chatted outside before posing for a group photo with graduates. Biden was the guest speaker for Southwestern Community College's springJill Biden tells Southwest Community College graduates to lift up others
Creston, Ia. Jill Biden offered college graduates three lessons to apply wherever they are in life: lift up others, go to your strength and never stop learning. Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, singled out several students during the commenc...
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Tampa Bay Online
HCC selects new president for Plant City campus
A retired Army major and veteran college administrator has been selected as the new president of Plant City's campus of Hillsborough Community College. Martyn Clay, 54, takes the top job on July 1, a month after current President Felix Haynes retires aft...
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Yahoo News: Business
Hazing rites gone wrong
Everything you need to get up to speed on the big story of the day Hazing Paddled. Forced to eat dog food or human vomit. Branded with a heated wire hanger. Thrown in a kiddie pool of human vomit, feces, semen, and rotten food. Deprived of sleep. Beaten...
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
Greatest test of the higher ed task force: getting Scott to invest
It's hard not to be skeptical about the motives behind Gov. Rick Scott's creation of a new task force on higher education. This is the governor who sees universities as vocational schools, worries the low tuition is too high and declares he has no use fo...
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Bangor Daily News
Unity College president to be inaugurated before commencement Saturday
UNITY, Maine — Higher education nationally may be about to undergo massive change as students struggle with rising debt and increasing college costs, but the 10th president of Unity College is sure that his school will continue to be a leader in sustaina...
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Tallahassee.com
Chuck Hobbs: Students share blame
"I'm a juvenile, tired of adults, talking 'bout consequences and results." Poison Clan, "Juveniles," 1990. Recent news headlines have included members of Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta Sigma — all black Greek letter organizations — charged...
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University Business
Florida A&M U Band Director Julian White Retires Unexpectedly
Florida A&M band director Julian White, who has been under intense criticism since the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion in Orlando last fall, retired unexpectedly today amid more troubling revelations about the embattled band. White's attorney,...
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