How to Save for College

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Save time, save effort, save money

Save time, save effort, save money 05/28/2004 04:57 PM
CNET Asia May 28 2004 9:16PM GMT

America's Man in the White House
Continues to Lie Like a Thief and Our
Soldiers Continue to Die: When Will the
Spoiled, Lying, Rich Kid Be Held
Accountable? Save the Nation. Save Our
Soldiers. Impeach and Prosecute Bush and
Cheney for High Crimes

America's Man in the White House
Continues to Lie Like a Thief and Our
Soldiers Continue to Die: When Will the
Spoiled, Lying, Rich Kid Be Held
Accountable? Save the Nation. Save Our
Soldiers. Impeach and Prosecute Bush and
Cheney for High Crimes 11/02/2003 06:30 AM

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You Can Pay for College

You Can Pay for College 09/22/2004 08:42 AM
Tips and resources galore are at your fingertips.

College Prep Help That Goes With You

College Prep Help That Goes With You 12/30/2004 04:26 AM
New York Times Dec 30 2004 7:59AM GMT

How to Invest for College

How to Invest for College 05/07/2004 08:57 AM
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to college savings.

College backs off Wi-Fi ban

College backs off Wi-Fi ban 09/16/2004 04:51 PM
Tensions ease at the University of Texas at Dallas when administrators reverse restrictions on Wi-Fi use.

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism

Getting Through College, Thanks To
Plagiarism 11/13/2003 05:25 AM
There have been plenty of stories about college kids cheating by buying or just cutting and pasting complete assignments for their classes, but this BBC piece includes a quote from someone claiming that she basically did that on every paper she's turned in throughout college, and is now using the same cut-and-paste method to finish up her dissertation. Clearly, that's an outlier example, but it does show how far people will go. The article includes lots of quotes from people who complain about the dumbing down of our education system that has allowed this to happen, but I'm not sure that's the case. Kids have always cheated in school. This just makes the process easier. Of course, what they don't mention is that the real punishment is already being handed out to these kids. They're attending (and in many cases paying quite a bit) four years of college and not learning a damn thing, because all they're doing is cutting and pasting.

College To Do Away With Fair Use

College To Do Away With Fair Use 12/17/2003 09:34 PM
The latest silliness from our college campuses is this bit of news from Ithaca College, where they're planning to tell professors that fair use no longer exists when it comes to course packs (the photocopied excerpts from various sources that many professors use to give students short excerpts from a variety of sources). While most such course packs do involve some approved material, much of it is often used on a fair-use basis - but university administrators are afraid of getting sued. Thus, they're going to tell professors that they need to license every last bit of content they use. This means that (a) professors will ditch a lot of materials, because they don't have time to get approval from everyone or because the publisher wants too much money to include a single paragraph and (b) the course packs will be much more expensive with less useful stuff for students. In some cases, professors will simply put the materials on library loan, where students will go and photocopy it anyway - basically adding an "annoyance" factor to the process. It's a great lesson we're teaching the students of today when they don't get to read certain materials because it's just too damn expensive.

When Brooklyn goes to college

When Brooklyn goes to college 01/23/2004 09:49 PM
The BBC's Mike Baker looks at how universities might be run in 2020.

What Will College Really Cost?

What Will College Really Cost? 04/19/2004 03:14 PM
You've heard the scary statistics, but the final price tag may not be so bad.

Saving for College

Saving for College 01/22/2004 11:34 AM
College costs can be managed with proper planning.

Hacker college

Hacker college 07/07/2004 07:52 AM

College heads protest to MPs

College heads protest to MPs 05/19/2004 09:06 AM
Heads of colleges of further education protest at Westminster over funding cuts.

College Dropout Bob Dylan Now a 'Dr.'
(AP)

College Dropout Bob Dylan Now a 'Dr.'
(AP) 06/23/2004 02:08 PM
AP - Bob Dylan's lyrics have been taught in universities and debated at academic conferences. Not bad for a college dropout who railed, in "Tombstone Blues" against too much "useless and pointless knowledge."

EA tackles college football

EA tackles college football 04/11/2005 01:37 PM
Locking in another sports franchise, leading game publisher Electronic Arts will now have exclusive rights to college football games.

Electoral College Graph

Electoral College Graph 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
great graph here .. graph

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Decision due on police college

Decision due on police college 02/19/2004 02:42 AM
A final decision is due on the location of a new police training college in Northern Ireland.

College Radio Database 0.9.3

College Radio Database 0.9.3 11/13/2003 11:01 PM
Web-based software for radio stations tracking CDs, spins, attendance, and more.

The liberal college conspiracy

The liberal college conspiracy 09/20/2004 08:24 AM
Conservatives like David Brooks love to blame academics for making lopsided donations to Democrats. A closer look reveals otherwise.

ADV: Accredited College Degree

ADV: Accredited College Degree 04/07/2005 03:07 PM
Earn you college degree today. Almeda can convert your experience into an accredited college degree. What would you do with a college degree?

Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old
.edu

Sad Adieu to College, and to Good Old
.edu 06/16/2004 09:02 PM
It's graduation season. Along with this rite of passage come significant changes - including, for many, the need to relinquish a college e-mail address.

College Radio Database 0.9.4

College Radio Database 0.9.4 12/03/2003 08:40 PM
Web-based software for radio stations tracking CDs, spins, attendance, and more.

PSNI college to be confirmed

PSNI college to be confirmed 02/17/2004 05:07 PM
The Policing Board is to meet on Thursday to agree the site for the new police training college.

Sell College to Your Kids

Sell College to Your Kids 04/29/2004 03:00 PM
It's good for them to buy into the idea and to want to attend.

Best undergrad college regardless of
price?

Best undergrad college regardless of
price? 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

I know a high school senior with 1600 on his SATs.  His parents were not sufficiently loving to change their last name to "Rodriguez" so he is not a shoo-in affirmative action candidate at America's most elite colleges.  Nonetheless with his perfect SAT scores he ought to get into some pretty good schools.  The question is where should he apply and attend?

After observing the behavior of MIT and Harvard faculty compared to professors at small town liberal arts schools I'm beginning to wonder if the biggest name schools represent a good choice even for a kid with infinite money.  In the old days you had to worry about whether faculty at research universities would pay attention to undergrads amidst the distractions of applying for grants and supervising graduate students and postdocs to perform on those grants.  Nothing has changed there except that competition for grants has become ever more fierce, forcing the professors to spend a bit more time applying and writing up results.  For an undergrad who actually wants to see and do research it might make sense to choose a school like MIT where there are substantial opportunities for undergrads to get into labs.  The professors might ignore the undergrads in the classes that they teach but they won't ignore the motivated undergrads helping with their funded research.

The big change compared to the 1960s and 1970s is the affordability of housing close to the campuses of some of the top research schools.  A Harvard or MIT professor who wants to live in a family-sized house will either need to spend two hours per day commuting from the exurbs or two days per week consulting to pay for the $1.5 million house in Cambridge.  In the old days a junior professor hurried from the classroom to the lab.  Today she hurries from the classroom to the lab and then tries to depart the campus by 4 pm to beat the traffic out to the exurbs.  She won't spend the evening taking her students out for dinner; if she is socializing it will be with folks unrelated to the university who live near her house.

For personal attention from the faculty it would seem that one should restrict one's college search to schools in areas where real estate is still cheap enough that professors live close to campus.  Brown would be good.  Harvard would be bad.  Some schools are near cheap housing but are still bad due to the fact that they are in crime-ridden ghettos (Yale and Penn?).  Amherst and Williams should be good.

What else should matter to the young male applicant?  How about girls?  The 17-year-old boy with 1600s on his SATs probably hasn't had time to become captain of the football team and do the other things that appeal to high school babes.  Why then subject oneself to four more years of rejection and frustration by attending a college where girls are in short supply?  Fifty-seven percent of bachelor's degrees are awarded to women in the U.S.  Why not choose a school where women are at least 57 percent of the students?  Remember that if 40 girls pair up with 40 boys that leaves 17 single girls for every 3 single guys!

Finally I guess we should tell the kid that if he and his parents don't have infinite money he should go wherever is cheap.  A motivated student can learn at most of the better colleges in the U.S.  A friend of mine was a brilliant high school student.  She went to Tulane in New Orleans as an undergrad where they gave scholarships for smart kids and where she could have a good time.  She went to MIT and got a PhD in physical science.  People sometimes do ask where she did her PhD work.  No potential employer would care where she was an undergrad.  For any field in which a graduate degree will be required it doesn't make sense to spend family $$ on a fancy undergrad degree that nobody will care about (not even the grad school; they always ask "was this your best student in the last 10 years?" and no honest teacher at a top school is going to be able to say "yes" because being smart is so cheap at a place such as Harvard or MIT).

So... where do we tell young John Q. Nerdly to apply?  He has the good test scores and public high school grades.  He is considering majoring in Biology (smart kid!).  He likes to climb rocks.  He hasn't been doing that great with the ladies as far as I can tell (the best vehicle that he can generally muster is a dented 10-year-old Ford Taurus station wagon, which might explain some of this lack of success).  His parents could suck it up to pay for an Ivy League no-merit-scholarship cartel university but they'd rather not.

Other News: College Market

Other News: College Market 08/23/2004 10:56 AM
Apple's doing better lately in the college market, thanks to iPods, laptops and security.

Abolish the Electoral College

Abolish the Electoral College 08/30/2004 10:41 PM
unsigned editorial .. such depths .. abolition

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Will take college credit for food.

Will take college credit for food. 04/21/2004 03:46 PM
A huge number of internships are illegal. So claims a labor lawyer in this USA Today story. Are unpaid internships a form of white collar exploitation we should crack down on? Just how much of the workforce is unpaid, or working on tiny stipends? And is it like this in other Western countries?

Convergence calls at college

Convergence calls at college 04/13/2005 08:07 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 13 2005 12:05PM GMT

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi 09/09/2004 08:26 PM
University of Texas bans students' private Wi-Fi hot spots, saying they block access to a campus wireless network.

My college is on an open road

My college is on an open road 04/16/2005 10:09 AM
Express Computer India Apr 16 2005 2:13PM GMT

Take College Tours Online

Take College Tours Online 03/27/2005 08:21 AM
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" Electoral College Graph"

" Electoral College Graph" 08/04/2004 03:30 PM

RIAA to Sue 405 More College Students

RIAA to Sue 405 More College Students 04/12/2005 02:45 PM
The RIAA said Tuesday it intends to file lawsuits against hundreds of college students sharing music and movie files over Internet2, the next-generation network of college universities that is intended for research of new technologies. On Wednesday, 405 lawsuits will be filed against students at 18 universities.

Blog out the college vote!

Blog out the college vote! 09/07/2004 08:01 PM
Zephyr Teachout, one of my very favorite faves from the Dean campaign, is heading up the oddly-named Baobabs College Labs Project, funded by Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein, intended to get out the college vote. From the press release: The campaign is targeting a dozen universities in swing states such as Ohio, New Mexico, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. Selected progressive student organizers on these campuses are given stipends, support, and online community building tools developed on the Howard Dean campaign. ...The effort hopes to spread online beyond the initial schools using such web tools as Civic Space, formerly "Dean Space,"...

King William's College Quiz

King William's College Quiz 12/22/2004 01:58 AM
King William's College Quiz 2004-2005 (PDF) has the reputation for being the hardest quiz in the world. It's also the hundredth edition, and they've made it extra hard this year! For what it's worth, here's last years Questions and Answer s.

With Help From a College Pal, the
Patakis' Wealth Increases

With Help From a College Pal, the
Patakis' Wealth Increases 05/14/2004 12:11 AM
The Pataki family, with the help from a millionaire real estate investor, has more than doubled their net worth.

Nation's first Internet games college
set up

Nation's first Internet games college
set up 08/19/2004 11:06 PM
Xinhua News Agency Aug 20 2004 3:37AM GMT

Joel Gives College Advice For
Programmers

Joel Gives College Advice For
Programmers 01/05/2005 03:57 PM

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