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Jul 11th, 2012
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Pop quiz: Who's more nervous about starting school this year, you or your child? If it's you, "it's a very normal response to have," says Matthew Stevenson, LSW, a child and family therapist in Philadelphia. We asked him how parents can send thei...

Jul 9th, 2012
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The term "transformative learning" has been buzzing around higher education since the early '80s, when Teachers College of Columbia professor Jack Mezirow founded his influential theory. Put very simply, transformative learning is an "aha!" moment. For...

Jun 29th, 2012
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For college students teetering on a financial tightrope, the issue of loans just became a lot more complicated and troublesome  – $18 billion worth of trouble, to be exact – although some lawmakers and media outlets would have you beli...

Jun 27th, 2012
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In the wake of the Virginia Tech tragedy, nearly all large colleges and universities now have behavioral intervention teams: a half-dozen or more campus staff -- including mental health counselors -- charged with identifying at-risk students and develo...

Jun 27th, 2012
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In defense of the trimester ... Stuart J. Lipper is the dean of the graduate school of business administration at Fordham University in New York City. How did Fordham arrive at a trimester system? The MBA has always been the largest master's program ...

Jun 14th, 2012
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The Opportunity Network, a nonprofit organization that has placed hundreds of inner city high school and college students from New York City in their first internships, offers the following 10 Do’s and Don’ts for a successful internship ex...

Jun 11th, 2012
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The prosecution branded former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky a "predatory pedophile" in opening statements on Monday in his child sex abuse trial, saying that his young victims remained silent only out of fear and shame....

Jun 4th, 2012
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The alleged sex abuse victims of a former Penn State University football coach will not be allowed to use fake names to hide their identities during his criminal trial, a Pennsylvania judge ruled on Monday.Prosecutors charge that Jerry Sandusky, 68, had ...

May 30th, 2012
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The former Rutgers University student convicted of bias crimes for spying on his roommate's gay encounter plans to begin his 30-day jail sentence this week, he said on Tuesday, even though an appeal meant he could have delayed his surrender. Dharun Ravi,...

May 23rd, 2012
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The Florida college marching band member killed in a brutal 2011 hazing wanted to submit to the ritual and received permission from the head drum major to participate on the night he died, according to testimony released by prosecutors on Wednesday. R...