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Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. With a total undergraduate enrollment of over 1,400, the college offers more than 600 courses a year in over 50 areas of study.

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500 College Avenue
Swarthmore , PA 19081

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How to let go as a parent when you send your kids back to school
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...
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Transforming adult learning
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...
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Brace yourself: Interest on college loans just got worse
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...
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Put an end to campus violence before it starts
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...
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Trimester vs. Semester: Which is better for students?
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 ...
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