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The Gazette
Trace Pickering wrote a new blog post: The Advanced Placement Debate - Share Your Thoughts
With the publication of the annual “Top 500 High Schools” list a few weeks ago comes the annual debate about the merits and appropriate role for AP courses. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids is the focal point where two high schools are very focused on expanding AP...
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MarketWire
WyzAnt Tutoring Announces Winners of the 2012 WyzAnt College Scholarship Contest
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - May 15, 2012) - WyzAnt.com, the nation's largest marketplace for private tutors and students, today announced the winners of the 2012 WyzAnt College Scholarship Contest. After several months of voting, three deserving students...
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The Gazette
Diane Heldt wrote a new blog post: Complaints in Iowa grow with expansion of for-profit colleges
Nursing instructor Jessica Manning shows the life-like actions of the infant that is part of the new NOELLE maternity simulator used to instruct nursing students at Kaplan University in Cedar Rapids. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette) Complaints to two state agen...
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Quad-City Times
College graduates struggle to find jobs in their fields
“Exhaustive, expensive, and occasionally humiliating” is how Hannah Kane, 22, described job hunting after graduating from the University of Iowa in May 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in cinema. “Interviewing at Hy-Vee between high school kids got old fast...
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Washington Times
American Scene: College turns to dogs as exam stress-busters
ATLANTA — Emory University in Atlanta has become the latest college to bring dogs on campus during exams to help stressed-out students. Schools are placing pups in counseling centers for students to visit regularly or allowing faculty and staff to bring...
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Iowa City Press Citizen
How the job hunt is treating some UI graduates
Exhaustive, expensive and occasionally humiliating is how Hannah Kane, 22, described job hunting after graduating from the University of Iowa in May 2011 with a bachelors degree in cinema. Interviewing at Hy-Vee between high school kids got old fast, Kan...
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The Washington Post
Three Boston U. students killed in New Zealand van crash
Three students from Boston University were killed Saturday and at least five others injured when their minivan flipped in a New Zealand vacation town, according to the Associated Press. A backpack lies on a road after a minivan crashed, near Turangi, New...
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AlterNet.org
Science in Jeopardy: Corporations Like Monsanto Are Hijacking Higher Education
Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic agriculture in farmer's markets, the first one told me that 'no one cares about people selling food in parking...
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Myrtle Beach Sun News
Early college graduates advance
CONWAY -- Bianca Forte had never heard of Furman University before she entered Horry County Schools’ Early College High School program, but this fall, she’ll continue to forge her future at the Greenville institution on a full scholarship. “It’s my dream...
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The Gazette
Diane Heldt wrote a new blog post: Kirkwood board approves 3.9 percent tuition increase
An aerial view of the Kirkwood Community College campus at the south edge of Cedar Rapids. (Sourcemedia File Photo) CEDAR RAPIDS — Students at Kirkwood Community College will pay $5 more per credit hour in tuition next year, a 3.9 percent increase approv...
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University Business
Black Hawk College Selects LiveRoof
Black Hawk College (Moline, IL) has selected the LiveRoof® green roof system from LiveRoof, LLC (Spring Lake, MI) for a green roof on its new Sustainable Technologies Building. Roof Top Sedums, LLC (Davenport, Iowa), a LiveRoof licensed regional grower a...
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University Business
Of State's Universities, Only U Of Iowa Has Spouse Of President On Payroll
Although the head of the Iowa Board of Regents says the duties of a university president’s spouse are equal to that of a full-time job, only one of Iowa’s three state universities has put the president’s spouse on its payroll. Iowa State University offic...
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Quad-Cities Online
MEDIC EMS donates ambulance to Eastern Iowa Community Colleges
Eastern Iowa Community Colleges' paramedic and emergency medical technician students now can practice techniques inside an actual ambulance, donated by MEDIC EMS. MEDIC EMS is the 911 ambulance service for Davenport, Bettendorf and northern Scott County...
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Des Moines Register
Vilifying all for-profit colleges is not fair
For-profit higher education has received an onslaught of media coverage over the past several weeks, most of which delivers an overwhelmingly negative message. This coverage is disappointing. It fails to recognize the for-profit schools that make quality...
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The Gazette
Patrick Hogan wrote a new blog post: Cedar Rapids, Iowa City schools excel in advance placement testing
Kennedy High School juniors Adam Parker Goldberg and Amanda Jacobsen study for the advanced placement chemistry exam in Deb Snook's room at the school Friday in northeast Cedar Rapids, (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette) This is a big week for college-bound Iowa...
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