So college hasn't been the picnic you thought it would be and you've dug yourself into an academic hole. You just now realize that unlike in high school, you have to actually study for exams. You wish you had known important unit-relevant lectures still occur in classes that don't require attendance.
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College Getting Hard? Don’t Drop Out
If there is one place that many feel safe and secure, that is at school. Many students living in residence halls regularly leave their room doors either unlocked or propped open, inviting in curious neighbors as if they were already old friends. This behavior exemplifies the feeling of general comfort and sanctuary that students feel
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In Case of Emergency: How Campuses are Keeping Students Safe in Times of Crisis
Senior Kristy Hoffman tied a school record with 12 strikeouts in the nightcap as the UW-Stout softball team closed out its season with a sweep of visiting Hamline, 6-2 and 11-8, on Tuesday in Menomonie.
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Local colleges roundup: Hoffman sets record in UW-Stout’s sweep
New Delhi, May 4 : A facility to give Indian scholars online access to academic materials– journals and books– was launched by Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal today.
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Sibal Launches N-LIST – So Scholars Access Journals Online
31 students who have spent the last year and a half in Illinois’ first online nursing program are about to graduate. So 23 News caught up with the inaugural class, including one student we introduced you to two years ago, to see how the training is saving students time and money.
PETAP.org introduces the promotion of both campus based schools and colleges as well as online schools and colleges in conjunction with educational services, and tuition assistance partnership options. These partnership options allow businesses the opportunity to provide students with the means for obtaining various educational services at a post secondary level of education. PETAP.org provides …
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PETAP.org Introduces Educational Services, Partnership Options, and Tuition Assistance Programs
LOS ANGELES—-Concord Law School of Kaplan University today announced the debut of its online Small Business Practice LLM program, the first in the country focused solely on legal issues confronting small businesses.
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Concord Law School Launches Online Small Business Practice LLM
The Steel City’s abundance of colleges and burgeoning arts and cultural scene factored heavily into its No.
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Abundance of colleges, art scene factor into ‘most livable’ tag
The Instructional Technology Council recently released a report on the trends in distance education and online learning at community colleges.
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OpenCourseWare: Opportunities for the EdTech Entrepreneur
Here are a few stories that I have found interesting and I hope you will, too! Innovation: the Wi-Fi data base that shamed Google “The revelation has, not for the first time, prompted a wave of accusations that Google doesn’t care about privacy anywhere near enough.” Southpaws: the evolution of handedness “All the more perplexing, then, that creatures across the animal kingdom – including mammals, birds, fish and invertebrates – prefer to use one paw, eye or even antenna for certain tasks, even though they may then be let down in crucial situations by their weaker side.”
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fun reading for today May 3rd, 2010
Here are a few stories that I have found interesting and I hope you will, too! Baby’s little smiles: building a relationship with Mom. “Research suggests that the mother’s ability to understand the needs of her infant is very important for establishing a secure mother-infant relationship. However, the neural mechanisms that underlie these behaviors are poorly understood.
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readings for May 1st, 2010
Our family loves technology. We even had a Jaguar gaming system, and not too many people even know what that is. So of course we needed iPads…Kristin and Karen received theirs today, too, and we’re getting some good advice from them on apps.
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The Family that iPads Together….
Here are a few stories that I have found interesting and I hope you will, too! Watching a living brain in the act of seeing “Looking ahead, they say their method opens a new avenue for exploration of how learning functions at the level of the individual neuron.” How nerve cells distinguish odors “Odors attach to receptors of olfactory cells in nasal mucosa, where they trigger nerve signals.” Hormone spray increases male sensitivity …”significantly higher emotional empathy levels were recorded for the oxytocin group than for the placebo group…”
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a few stories for April 29th, 2010
As baby boomers begin the next state of their lives, we take a look back at some of the most defining images from their history. Can you recognize these iconic photographs? “I Have a Dream” speech : Influential civil rights and social leader Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C
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25 Defining Images in Baby Boomer History
Here are a few stories that I have found interesting and I hope you will, too! How Chimps Deal with Death : Studies offer rare glimpses “…the boundaries between us and other species are nowhere near to being as clearly defined as many people used to think,” said James Anderson of the University of Stirling The Joy is the Social Hunt : How Facebook users more engaged emotionally when conducting specific searches “We found a more positive response from participants during social searching, or when they had homed in on a particular target,” Wise said.
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current stories in psychology for April 28th,2010
For many students, college will be the first time they have ever lived with a roommate. With dorm rooms being pretty confined spaces with little room for privacy or personal space, sometimes this can be a difficult adjustment for students unused to having to share space. Some students will become great friends with their roommates and others will merely learn to tolerate each other until the semester is over
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Learning to Live With Roommates
As a rule, presidents tend to be extraordinary people, but there are just some facts about the presidents that are hard to believe. From skinny dipping to record numbers of offspring there’s a lot to learn about our past and present Commanders in Chief.
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43 Unbelievable Facts About Our Presidents
Here are a few stories that I have found interesting and I hope you will, too! Brian Wansink launches MindlessMethod.com So instead of counting your calories, the Mindless Method helps you avoid your personal “mindless” traps and designs a healthy eating program that is tailored to your particular challenges.
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current stories for April 27th, 2010
It’s easy for life to become a blur when you’re trying to balance studying for tests, finishing final projects, readings, work and time for yourself at the middle and the end of the semester. With so much to do, there hardly seems to be time to sleep, let alone for relaxation.
You may have come to college with the primary intention of continuing your education but what you may not have realized is that opportunities to learn can continue outside of your courses as well when you choose to get involved with on-campus activities. While it’s possible to get involved with community, sports and humanitarian groups at any time in your life, college is a place where its easier than it will ever be again to find those that share your ideals and interests and who have the time and energy to follow through with them
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College Campuses Are a Great Place to Get Involved