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Sep29	Top Ten Universities by Professors Who Are Accessible Bill Belew September 29, 2006 Know More: Business of Education, Top Ten 2.0, Top Ten These Profs are there for you during and after class time. Can't beat that with a stick. Of course, we have all had profs we'd just as soon never see again, haven't we? But, when they don't understand, these students say the answer is readily available...well, at least another explanation that they don't understand is not far away. The list: 10. Wellesley College 9. Ripon College 8. College of the Atlantic 7. Sweet Briar College - What do the cheerleaders do with that name? Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee, rah rah rass...give 'em sass! 6. Washington and Lee University 5. Harvey Mudd College 4. Franklin W. Olin School of Engineering - profs don't likely have a life either. 3. Wabash College 2. U S Naval Academy - be there for 'em! That's an order. 1. U S Air Force Academy - you, too! UASF students call themselves self-motivated, highly ambitious achievers who are generally Christian. So, can Christians drop bombs? The www.PrincetonReview.com rankings are a source of much debate, maybe even a few fist fights when the schools are neighbors. The book ranks schools in some 60+ different categories. The results are based on surveys given to those who should know best - the students who attend. And PR asked more than 115,000 such students. Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep29	University of Florida Students Go Back to the First Century Bill Belew September 29, 2006 University of Florida took several 1000 students on a field trip back in time. Somebody didn't, (but, no doubt now does) know how to write Roman Numerals. Several thousand t-shirts were printed with XXVI to indicate 2006. Did you notice... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep28	Top Ten Student Bodies Crying "Show Me The Money!' Bill Belew September 28, 2006 I know parents who hope their kids will NOT get into college and then hope they do and then hope they don't. Tuition, room & board, books, supplies and school fees can run from $20K to nearly twice that. Show... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Students Learn To Pig Out at Cafeteria 101 Bill Belew September 28, 2006 A report on the Journal of the American Dietetic Association's finding explains that students are fatter now because they take bigger portions when serving themselves at the buffet in the cafeteria. Is anyone surprised by this finding? Students are eating... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep27	Top Ten Schools That Give Good Financial Aid - Princeton # 1 Bill Belew September 27, 2006 Giving good financial aid does NOT always mean shelling out the bucks. It also means the school aids the student in finding funding sources as well. The top ten schools praised by their students for great financial aid departments: 10.... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top Ten Nations With Young People in College Bill Belew September 27, 2006 If having a greater proportion of your young people in college is any indication that the country is preparing well for the future, these top ten have a jump on the rest of the world. 10. Hungary - 31% 9. ... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep26	Bottom 10 College Libraries Bill Belew September 26, 2006 With everything, well almost everything available on the Net, perhaps these students don't care just how many books their library does NOT have. Still the typical response on guided tours when introduced to the little lady with trifocals and the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top Ten Smartest Young People by Nation Bill Belew September 26, 2006 The list changes when it comes to who has the smartest young people, except for the number one nation. Not only does Canada have the greatest percentage of four year college grads, they also have the greatest percentage of young... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep25	Top Ten College Libraries Bill Belew September 25, 2006 Couldn't that be almost any school now that provides Internet access for their students? Still there are colleges and universities that take great pride in the number of tomes they can put on stacks regardless of whether anybody ever opens... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top Ten Smartest Nations Bill Belew September 25, 2006 Smart is relative. There is knowledgeable and also the old fashion horse sense. There is also the case where there are enough really intelligent people to bring up the average of the whole population under consideration. If having a college... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep24	Top Ten Universitites Taught by Teaching Assistants Bill Belew September 24, 2006 Imagine paying all of that money to get into the best school in the area and to learn from the best...only to be taught by some pimple-nosed, bottle-glassed, brown-nosing TA. It happens the most at these schools. 10. Rutgers University... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Paying for College Bill Belew September 24, 2006 It is one thing to be prepared for college, to have a college nearby, to know that you have a good chance of finishing, to know your education will make a difference and another to be able to afford it.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep22	Randolph-Macon Woman's College Students Boycott Classes Bill Belew September 22, 2006 I wrote a few days about an all women's schoo, Randolph-Macon college that was having trouble making ends meet. So...they voted to let the boys in. well, alumnae didn't like that decision...so much for the democratic process. Students of Randolph-macon... Continue Reading Posted at 4:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Tobacco Money Refused By University of California Researchers Bill Belew September 22, 2006 The University of California gets more than $4 billion each year in grants and contracts for research. Suddenly the Board of Regents is focusing on the source of $2 million of that. That's 5% of 1%...the number is really small.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Bottom Ten University Faculties in the US Bill Belew September 22, 2006 Despite the fact that students from these schools think their profs are the worst, their schools rank in the top ten percent in the nation according to the Princeton Review. It doesn't take much to conclude that we have here... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	4 Reasons to NOT Study in Europe Bill Belew September 22, 2006 If I were a kid, I'd head overseas to study in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the opportunity to study abroad just wasn't there when I was growing up. Instead, I let Uncle Sam foot the bill and send me there to... Continue Reading Posted at 4:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top And Bottom Five States Whose College Grads Make a Difference Bill Belew September 22, 2006 It is one thing to go to college AND finish, and yet another to learn something that makes a difference. The Measuring Up 2006: National Report Card on Higher Ed grades the states on whose students become the greatest asset... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep21	Top Ten Universities By Profs Who Win at Hide-and-Seek Bill Belew September 21, 2006 Ever had a question after class and wish you could find someone to answer for it you? The pretty girl or handsome dude won't even look your way so that you might ask? No choice but to ask the prof?... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Students Still Struggling Bill Belew September 21, 2006 I read today at OpEdNews about a 2003 study by a Yale University researcher. 1. More than 50 percent of first-year college students couldn't write a paper free of grammatical errors. When I was a freshman in college many many... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	A "Holistic Approach" to Admissions at UCLA Bill Belew September 21, 2006 If this doesn't sound like some stupid California approach to the universe, I don't know what does. In 1996, voters - that's all of us who took the trouble to go to the polls - voted to outlaw the use... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Students to Finish What They Started - Graduation Bill Belew September 21, 2006 Not too many people start something hoping to give up part way through. Though I am confident I have a few students who are enrolled only so that they can get financial aid and survive a few more months before... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep20	Ultimate Frisbee Beats Out SAT Scores as Measure of Academic Success Bill Belew September 20, 2006 This is crazy...The schools with the best Ultimate teams have the best graduation rates. A shrink in Seattle, WA (Isn't that where Frasier practices?) has learned that of 86 private national universities, those schools that are ranked in the top... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	FSU and Prof Duke it Out Bill Belew September 20, 2006 A Florida State University Professor donated $11 million to FSU to build a chemistry laboratory. Where the prof got the money is a mystery to me. I sure haven't been able to save up $11 million. Nor have I been... Continue Reading Posted at 8:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Randolph-Macon Woman's College Goes Coed Bill Belew September 20, 2006 Ever since 1891 Randolph-Macon College has been a woman-only college. Now with a vote of 25-2 that has changed. Board members say 'times have changed.' Alumnae say, 'show us the books.' The board says there is shrinking demand for all-women's... Continue Reading Posted at 4:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Making Post Secondary Education Accessible to Its Residents Bill Belew September 20, 2006 I remember growing up near a college. My brother and I used to walk to the campus, hang out the 'coach house' near the big kids, buy cartons of chocolate milk for a nickel and dream of going to college.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep19	15,000 Free Scholarships Bill Belew September 19, 2006 16 Best/Richest Free Scholarship Web Sites President Bush and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia signed an agreement that would open up US schools to some 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia. The kingdom will foot the bill for ALL 15,000 students.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	OnStar at the Heart of Law Suit between Rutgers University and General Motors Bill Belew September 19, 2006 Mine, mine, mine...sounds like a Finding Nemo video clip. OnStar is used by millions of drivers = brings in a lot of money. Rutgers University says they have the patent on the technology. General Motors is not so quietly raking... Continue Reading Posted at 8:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Preparing Students for College Bill Belew September 19, 2006 What parent doesn't want their kids to go to college or at least have the ability to go if they so desire? Who wouldn't like to go to college if they haven't already had the chance? Measuring Up 2006: The... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Higher Education is Race Biased - Asians Make the Most Money Bill Belew September 19, 2006 It ought to be that people should be paid the same if they do the same job regardless of gender or race. That is not the case in post-secondary education. The Education Department released its findings on post secondary institutions.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep18	India's Higher Education Lagging Behind US Bill Belew September 18, 2006 According to Measuring Up 2006: The Nation's Report Card on Higher Education India has about nine million students - around 10% of the student age group - in college. Of that group 20% are in engineering and medicine. More than... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Higher Education Is Gender Biased - Men Make the Most Money Bill Belew September 18, 2006 The Education Department released its findings on post secondary institutions. The full report can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006152.pdf. The decade covered in the report is from 1993-2003. The statistics on salary inequity ought to make the better looking half of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Illinois at Springfield Puts Traditional Liberal Arts Courses Online Bill Belew September 18, 2006 The chair of the faculty senate at the University of Illinois at Springfield thinks they are a model of how distance learning edcuation can work well. Not concentrating on business and technology, the school is putting up philosophy and English... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States to Find a Job In Higher Education Bill Belew September 18, 2006 The Education Department released its findings on post secondary institutions. The full report can be found at Education Department. The decade covered in the report is from 1993-2003. I am an educator and often peruse the faculty job openings at... Continue Reading Posted at 12:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep17	Top Ten Faculties - Middlebury College Ranked 1st - Reed College Wins in My Book Bill Belew September 17, 2006 I would like to know what these schools think is so great about their professors such that they think those profs are the best. What makes a good prof? Enthusiastic? Knowledgeable? Accessible? Can relate? In any event, according to the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Among World Leaders in College Age Population Bill Belew September 17, 2006 Measuring Up 2006: The Nation's Report Card on Higher Education reports that China currently has about 16 million students enrolled in higher education. This number represents about 20% of the student age population, double what it was just 7 years... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UMass Online Sees Growth Bill Belew September 17, 2006 UMass Online CEO thinks there is some regionalism in online education. Only 28% of UMass Online students are from out of state despite the institutions 23% increase in enrollment and 32% rise in revnue to nearly $23 million. How many... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Illinois Takes Aim at University of Phoenix Bill Belew September 17, 2006 The University of Illinois with their new University of Illinois Global Campus, along with UMass Online, University of Maryland University College all have their sites on the University of Phoenix. If University of Phoenix can do it, perhaps these traditional... Continue Reading Posted at 12:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep15	University of Phoenix Hires Practioner Faculty Bill Belew September 15, 2006 The University of Phoenix hires adjunct faculty that are currently active in the field they are teaching. Writing teachers are writers. Business teachers are in business. What that means is that these adjunct faculty are indeed on the forefront and... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Wisconsin Plans to Buy Diverse Student Population Bill Belew September 15, 2006 The University of Wisconsin is planning to buy a diverse student population. Well, actually they are going to ask the students and their parents to foot the bill. There is a plan to raise tuition over $1300 over the next... Continue Reading Posted at 6:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Animal Activists go Ape at UCLA Bill Belew September 15, 2006 An associate neurobiology professor at UCLA had to give up his research on primates because some monkey lovers scared him out of it. The monkeymongers posted the prof's name and home phone number of their web site. Consequently, they all... Continue Reading Posted at 3:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - Kaplan and University of Phoenix Set the Standard (concl.) Bill Belew September 15, 2006 More and more adults are going or want to go back to school. Already one in four Americans three years or older are studying something somewhere. That number is predicted to grow by as much as 20% per year for... Continue Reading Posted at 12:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep14	Top Ten Slouching Students - Indiana University Lazier Than University of Texas Bill Belew September 14, 2006 I'd like to go to the number one school on this list. The Princeton Review ranks the schools whose students say they NEVER study, well almost never study. Still, these schools are among the top ten percent in the nation.... Continue Reading Posted at 5:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	FBI Screens FAFSA Bill Belew September 14, 2006 For the past five years, students who have applied for Pell Grants have also allowed themselves and their records to be screened by the FBI. The AP reported that the FBI gave about 1,000 names to the Education Department of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	D-Q University - American Indian Tribal College Closes Down Bill Belew September 14, 2006 D-Q University is one of America's first tribal colleges. According to insidehighered it has graduated hundreds of American Indians and non-Indian students in the past 30 years. Let me see - hundreds in 30 years? That must be less than... Continue Reading Posted at 6:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fairmont Properties Builds College Towns Bill Belew September 14, 2006 Fairmont Properties is commercial property development firm based in Cleveland, OH. The company also does about $250 million of work each year building College Towns. One of the principals at Fairmont said, "We got a sense that in today's competitive... Continue Reading Posted at 3:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - Testing (part 4) Bill Belew September 14, 2006 There are state tests administered annually in grades three through eight and once in high school. There are prep books, study materials and such now for all those tests. President Bush is considering expanding high school testing. Can you think... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep13	University of Pennsylvania CanNOT Just Teach Bill Belew September 13, 2006 It is not enough for colleges and universities to teach any more. The director of external relations at the University of Pennsylvania says, there is a "responsibility to contribute to the landscape in the most positive way it can." Universities... Continue Reading Posted at 6:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Stanford, Yale and UPenn Go Cold Turkey On Drug Firm Freebies Bill Belew September 13, 2006 The Stanford University Medical Center plans to follow the lead of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania in refusing freebies (pens, meals, sample drugs, football tickets, etc. ..) from pharmaceutical sales representatives. The purpose is to limit the industry/representative's influence... Continue Reading Posted at 6:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Financial Aid Flow Bill Belew September 13, 2006 Public 2-year colleges offer the cheapest tuition at about 20% of total costs with about 23% of students needing loans to get through. Public 4-year colleges are the next cheapest alternative with about 30% of total costs going for tuition... Continue Reading Posted at 3:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - Employee Training - (part 3) Bill Belew September 13, 2006 When I went to work for a fopro in the Bay area of San Francisco, it was a very short time before I was introduced to their online training programs. When I started there were a half dozen of more... Continue Reading Posted at 12:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep12	Overseas Colleges/Students Add to the Education Industry Bill Belew September 12, 2006 Many colleges have set up shop overseas - in China, India, Japan and elsewhere. Additionally, according to the Institute of International Education as many as 565,000 students have come to the states from overseas. And all of them are paying... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Barnes & Noble Likes Education Change Bill Belew September 12, 2006 The College Board changed the SAT test format last year. The first question on the test - How much money was spent on creating new practice tests, study guides and prepartion materials for the new SAT test? Answer: too much... Continue Reading Posted at 6:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Eduventures Predicts Growth in For-profit Education Market Bill Belew September 12, 2006 The National Center for Edcuation Statistics is predicting that the number of adults 25 years and older who will be attending college by 2014 will grow by 19%! It is the fopros that cater to these adults the best. Consequently,... Continue Reading Posted at 3:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - No Child Left Behind - $25 billion a year Industry (part 2) Bill Belew September 12, 2006 According to Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc. a St. Louis based broker-dealer investment firm, the No Child Left Behind Act is worth some $25 billion a year. The aim of the No Child Left Behind Act is for all children... Continue Reading Posted at 12:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep11	Education is Big Business - Approaching 1 Trillion Annually (part 1) Bill Belew September 11, 2006 According to the Digest of Education Statistics, education is an $850 billion a year business. Some $500 billion is spent on elementary and secondary schools and $350 million plus goes to degree-granting colleges and universities. The US Census reports that... Continue Reading Posted at 6:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Computer Ate My Test Scores - Educational Testing Services Bill Belew September 11, 2006 If a kid were to say this, would anybody believe them? The computer ate the test scores is what the Educational Testing Services is saying happened to 1500 Advanced Placement tests from this year. Educational Testing Services administers the Advanced... Continue Reading Posted at 6:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Missouri Wants Not-for-Profit Group to Oversee State Education Bill Belew September 11, 2006 As if the bureaucracy in education wasn't complicated and inefficient enough, now the state of Missouri wants a not-for-profit group to oversee the math, engineering, technology and science (METS) education in their state. The governor of Missouri appointed a 20-member... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sale of MOHELA Assets Raise Flags Despite Benefit to Students Bill Belew September 11, 2006 According to columbianmissourian.com the governor of Missouri leaked out on a weekend that the state is planning on selling the assets of Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority. The price tag for these assets - $350 million. $335 million of that... Continue Reading Posted at 12:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep10	Beijing Olympics Have Double the Volunteers They Need 2 Years Early Bill Belew September 10, 2006 Over 150,000 apply to be volunteers for 2008 Olympics What that means is that those running the various venues at the Olympics can be very choosy. The Olympic organizers estimate that they only need 70,000 volunteers for the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 8	Caltech Students Study Harder than MIT Students Bill Belew September 8, 2006 Hard is relative. Just because a student says s/he study harders doesn't mean that s/he is a better student...it could be the opposite. Study hard also doesn't mean study smart. Nevertheless this list by Princeton Review addresses which school students... Continue Reading Posted at 4:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Arizona State University Makes Money off of Chinese Students Bill Belew September 8, 2006 I have read over and over that one, if not the biggest, problem in China is the lack of skilled knowledgeable managers. Arizona State University saw that as a means of making money - find a need and fill it... Continue Reading Posted at 2:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Coffice Bill Belew September 8, 2006 I wrote about a new word - pracademic. Here is a word I'd like to add to the English language - COFFICE. It is a combination of Coffee and Office...It is also where I spend my afternoons, many of them... Continue Reading Posted at 12:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 7	Massachusettes Institute of Technology is Tougher Than Harvard to Get Into Unless You have a Thumbprint Scanner Bill Belew September 7, 2006 This list addresses which school students think are the toughest to get into. 10. Columbia University in NYC 9. University Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia 8. Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis - I'd never heard of this school... Continue Reading Posted at 7:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Pracademics Bill Belew September 7, 2006 I wish I could remember where I first came across this word. Actually I wish I could claim to have created it. A pracademic is a faculty member who actually practices the academic discipline s/he is teaching. University of Phoenix... Continue Reading Posted at 5:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Professor Admits to Not Knowing 90% of His Students at UC Berkeley Bill Belew September 7, 2006 An intro to Chemistry teacher admitted in a San Jose Mercury Newspaper to NOT KNOWING 90% of his students. It could be because he has 500 students each in three lectures that he offers daily. Or, it could be, that... Continue Reading Posted at 2:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UC Santa Cruz Houses Upperclassmen in University Inn - UC Davis Slops Grease on Them and Crams Them In Bill Belew September 7, 2006 The University of California school system has too many students. UC, unlike private schools, can't turn applicants away IF the student meets its eligibility requirements. Who would have known? To accomodate an unexpected high number of freshmen, UC Santa Cruz... Continue Reading Posted at 12:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 6	University Of Phoenix to be Sued for Billions? Bill Belew September 6, 2006 Inside Higher Ed :: U. of Phoenix Loses in U.S. Court reports on the overturn of a lower courts decision that allowed University of Phoenix to continue to 'sell' the school the way it has been...thus growing it to the... Continue Reading Posted at 6:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UC Schools Can't Handle Incoming Freshmen Bill Belew September 6, 2006 We don't have enough students. We have too many students. Is there any way to appease the traditional universities? The San Jose Mercury News reported that the University of California campuses are expecting to see at least 4000 more new... Continue Reading Posted at 4:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Chicago Beats Stanford, Harvard for Best Academic Experience Bill Belew September 6, 2006 The Princeton Review rankings are a source of much debate, maybe even a few fist fights when the schools are neighbors. The book ranks schools in some 60+ different categories. The results are based on surveys given to those who... Continue Reading Posted at 2:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Phoenix Largest US College Bill Belew September 6, 2006 Last month, the University of Phoenix passed up ALL US colleges and universities in population of students. University of Phoenix now boasts a student population of 115,794, three times what it was just five years ago. If the student body... Continue Reading Posted at 12:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 5	Kaplan University made $1 Billion for Washington Post Bill Belew September 5, 2006 Like 'em or hate 'em, fopros, online and brick and mortar types are here to stay. I can't imagine Washington Post wanting to do away with the likes of Kaplan University which raked in over $1 billion in revenues for... Continue Reading Posted at 4:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

Sep29	Top Ten Universities by Professors Who Are Accessible Bill Belew September 29, 2006 Know More: Business of Education, Top Ten 2.0, Top Ten These Profs are there for you during and after class time. Can't beat that with a stick. Of course, we have all had profs we'd just as soon never see again, haven't we? But, when they don't understand, these students say the answer is readily available...well, at least another explanation that they don't understand is not far away. The list: 10. Wellesley College 9. Ripon College 8. College of the Atlantic 7. Sweet Briar College - What do the cheerleaders do with that name? Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee, rah rah rass...give 'em sass! 6. Washington and Lee University 5. Harvey Mudd College 4. Franklin W. Olin School of Engineering - profs don't likely have a life either. 3. Wabash College 2. U S Naval Academy - be there for 'em! That's an order. 1. U S Air Force Academy - you, too! UASF students call themselves self-motivated, highly ambitious achievers who are generally Christian. So, can Christians drop bombs? The www.PrincetonReview.com rankings are a source of much debate, maybe even a few fist fights when the schools are neighbors. The book ranks schools in some 60+ different categories. The results are based on surveys given to those who should know best - the students who attend. And PR asked more than 115,000 such students. Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep29	University of Florida Students Go Back to the First Century Bill Belew September 29, 2006 University of Florida took several 1000 students on a field trip back in time. Somebody didn't, (but, no doubt now does) know how to write Roman Numerals. Several thousand t-shirts were printed with XXVI to indicate 2006. Did you notice... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep28	Top Ten Student Bodies Crying "Show Me The Money!' Bill Belew September 28, 2006 I know parents who hope their kids will NOT get into college and then hope they do and then hope they don't. Tuition, room & board, books, supplies and school fees can run from $20K to nearly twice that. Show... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Students Learn To Pig Out at Cafeteria 101 Bill Belew September 28, 2006 A report on the Journal of the American Dietetic Association's finding explains that students are fatter now because they take bigger portions when serving themselves at the buffet in the cafeteria. Is anyone surprised by this finding? Students are eating... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep27	Top Ten Schools That Give Good Financial Aid - Princeton # 1 Bill Belew September 27, 2006 Giving good financial aid does NOT always mean shelling out the bucks. It also means the school aids the student in finding funding sources as well. The top ten schools praised by their students for great financial aid departments: 10.... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top Ten Nations With Young People in College Bill Belew September 27, 2006 If having a greater proportion of your young people in college is any indication that the country is preparing well for the future, these top ten have a jump on the rest of the world. 10. Hungary - 31% 9. ... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep26	Bottom 10 College Libraries Bill Belew September 26, 2006 With everything, well almost everything available on the Net, perhaps these students don't care just how many books their library does NOT have. Still the typical response on guided tours when introduced to the little lady with trifocals and the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top Ten Smartest Young People by Nation Bill Belew September 26, 2006 The list changes when it comes to who has the smartest young people, except for the number one nation. Not only does Canada have the greatest percentage of four year college grads, they also have the greatest percentage of young... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep25	Top Ten College Libraries Bill Belew September 25, 2006 Couldn't that be almost any school now that provides Internet access for their students? Still there are colleges and universities that take great pride in the number of tomes they can put on stacks regardless of whether anybody ever opens... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top Ten Smartest Nations Bill Belew September 25, 2006 Smart is relative. There is knowledgeable and also the old fashion horse sense. There is also the case where there are enough really intelligent people to bring up the average of the whole population under consideration. If having a college... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep24	Top Ten Universitites Taught by Teaching Assistants Bill Belew September 24, 2006 Imagine paying all of that money to get into the best school in the area and to learn from the best...only to be taught by some pimple-nosed, bottle-glassed, brown-nosing TA. It happens the most at these schools. 10. Rutgers University... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Paying for College Bill Belew September 24, 2006 It is one thing to be prepared for college, to have a college nearby, to know that you have a good chance of finishing, to know your education will make a difference and another to be able to afford it.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep22	Randolph-Macon Woman's College Students Boycott Classes Bill Belew September 22, 2006 I wrote a few days about an all women's schoo, Randolph-Macon college that was having trouble making ends meet. So...they voted to let the boys in. well, alumnae didn't like that decision...so much for the democratic process. Students of Randolph-macon... Continue Reading Posted at 4:29 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Tobacco Money Refused By University of California Researchers Bill Belew September 22, 2006 The University of California gets more than $4 billion each year in grants and contracts for research. Suddenly the Board of Regents is focusing on the source of $2 million of that. That's 5% of 1%...the number is really small.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:25 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Bottom Ten University Faculties in the US Bill Belew September 22, 2006 Despite the fact that students from these schools think their profs are the worst, their schools rank in the top ten percent in the nation according to the Princeton Review. It doesn't take much to conclude that we have here... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	4 Reasons to NOT Study in Europe Bill Belew September 22, 2006 If I were a kid, I'd head overseas to study in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the opportunity to study abroad just wasn't there when I was growing up. Instead, I let Uncle Sam foot the bill and send me there to... Continue Reading Posted at 4:03 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top And Bottom Five States Whose College Grads Make a Difference Bill Belew September 22, 2006 It is one thing to go to college AND finish, and yet another to learn something that makes a difference. The Measuring Up 2006: National Report Card on Higher Ed grades the states on whose students become the greatest asset... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep21	Top Ten Universities By Profs Who Win at Hide-and-Seek Bill Belew September 21, 2006 Ever had a question after class and wish you could find someone to answer for it you? The pretty girl or handsome dude won't even look your way so that you might ask? No choice but to ask the prof?... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	American Students Still Struggling Bill Belew September 21, 2006 I read today at OpEdNews about a 2003 study by a Yale University researcher. 1. More than 50 percent of first-year college students couldn't write a paper free of grammatical errors. When I was a freshman in college many many... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	A "Holistic Approach" to Admissions at UCLA Bill Belew September 21, 2006 If this doesn't sound like some stupid California approach to the universe, I don't know what does. In 1996, voters - that's all of us who took the trouble to go to the polls - voted to outlaw the use... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Students to Finish What They Started - Graduation Bill Belew September 21, 2006 Not too many people start something hoping to give up part way through. Though I am confident I have a few students who are enrolled only so that they can get financial aid and survive a few more months before... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep20	Ultimate Frisbee Beats Out SAT Scores as Measure of Academic Success Bill Belew September 20, 2006 This is crazy...The schools with the best Ultimate teams have the best graduation rates. A shrink in Seattle, WA (Isn't that where Frasier practices?) has learned that of 86 private national universities, those schools that are ranked in the top... Continue Reading Posted at 12:41 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	FSU and Prof Duke it Out Bill Belew September 20, 2006 A Florida State University Professor donated $11 million to FSU to build a chemistry laboratory. Where the prof got the money is a mystery to me. I sure haven't been able to save up $11 million. Nor have I been... Continue Reading Posted at 8:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Randolph-Macon Woman's College Goes Coed Bill Belew September 20, 2006 Ever since 1891 Randolph-Macon College has been a woman-only college. Now with a vote of 25-2 that has changed. Board members say 'times have changed.' Alumnae say, 'show us the books.' The board says there is shrinking demand for all-women's... Continue Reading Posted at 4:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Making Post Secondary Education Accessible to Its Residents Bill Belew September 20, 2006 I remember growing up near a college. My brother and I used to walk to the campus, hang out the 'coach house' near the big kids, buy cartons of chocolate milk for a nickel and dream of going to college.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep19	15,000 Free Scholarships Bill Belew September 19, 2006 16 Best/Richest Free Scholarship Web Sites President Bush and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia signed an agreement that would open up US schools to some 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia. The kingdom will foot the bill for ALL 15,000 students.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:35 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	OnStar at the Heart of Law Suit between Rutgers University and General Motors Bill Belew September 19, 2006 Mine, mine, mine...sounds like a Finding Nemo video clip. OnStar is used by millions of drivers = brings in a lot of money. Rutgers University says they have the patent on the technology. General Motors is not so quietly raking... Continue Reading Posted at 8:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States for Preparing Students for College Bill Belew September 19, 2006 What parent doesn't want their kids to go to college or at least have the ability to go if they so desire? Who wouldn't like to go to college if they haven't already had the chance? Measuring Up 2006: The... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Higher Education is Race Biased - Asians Make the Most Money Bill Belew September 19, 2006 It ought to be that people should be paid the same if they do the same job regardless of gender or race. That is not the case in post-secondary education. The Education Department released its findings on post secondary institutions.... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep18	India's Higher Education Lagging Behind US Bill Belew September 18, 2006 According to Measuring Up 2006: The Nation's Report Card on Higher Education India has about nine million students - around 10% of the student age group - in college. Of that group 20% are in engineering and medicine. More than... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Higher Education Is Gender Biased - Men Make the Most Money Bill Belew September 18, 2006 The Education Department released its findings on post secondary institutions. The full report can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/2006152.pdf. The decade covered in the report is from 1993-2003. The statistics on salary inequity ought to make the better looking half of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Illinois at Springfield Puts Traditional Liberal Arts Courses Online Bill Belew September 18, 2006 The chair of the faculty senate at the University of Illinois at Springfield thinks they are a model of how distance learning edcuation can work well. Not concentrating on business and technology, the school is putting up philosophy and English... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Top and Bottom Five States to Find a Job In Higher Education Bill Belew September 18, 2006 The Education Department released its findings on post secondary institutions. The full report can be found at Education Department. The decade covered in the report is from 1993-2003. I am an educator and often peruse the faculty job openings at... Continue Reading Posted at 12:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep17	Top Ten Faculties - Middlebury College Ranked 1st - Reed College Wins in My Book Bill Belew September 17, 2006 I would like to know what these schools think is so great about their professors such that they think those profs are the best. What makes a good prof? Enthusiastic? Knowledgeable? Accessible? Can relate? In any event, according to the... Continue Reading Posted at 12:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	China Among World Leaders in College Age Population Bill Belew September 17, 2006 Measuring Up 2006: The Nation's Report Card on Higher Education reports that China currently has about 16 million students enrolled in higher education. This number represents about 20% of the student age population, double what it was just 7 years... Continue Reading Posted at 8:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UMass Online Sees Growth Bill Belew September 17, 2006 UMass Online CEO thinks there is some regionalism in online education. Only 28% of UMass Online students are from out of state despite the institutions 23% increase in enrollment and 32% rise in revnue to nearly $23 million. How many... Continue Reading Posted at 4:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Illinois Takes Aim at University of Phoenix Bill Belew September 17, 2006 The University of Illinois with their new University of Illinois Global Campus, along with UMass Online, University of Maryland University College all have their sites on the University of Phoenix. If University of Phoenix can do it, perhaps these traditional... Continue Reading Posted at 12:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep15	University of Phoenix Hires Practioner Faculty Bill Belew September 15, 2006 The University of Phoenix hires adjunct faculty that are currently active in the field they are teaching. Writing teachers are writers. Business teachers are in business. What that means is that these adjunct faculty are indeed on the forefront and... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Wisconsin Plans to Buy Diverse Student Population Bill Belew September 15, 2006 The University of Wisconsin is planning to buy a diverse student population. Well, actually they are going to ask the students and their parents to foot the bill. There is a plan to raise tuition over $1300 over the next... Continue Reading Posted at 6:25 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Animal Activists go Ape at UCLA Bill Belew September 15, 2006 An associate neurobiology professor at UCLA had to give up his research on primates because some monkey lovers scared him out of it. The monkeymongers posted the prof's name and home phone number of their web site. Consequently, they all... Continue Reading Posted at 3:24 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - Kaplan and University of Phoenix Set the Standard (concl.) Bill Belew September 15, 2006 More and more adults are going or want to go back to school. Already one in four Americans three years or older are studying something somewhere. That number is predicted to grow by as much as 20% per year for... Continue Reading Posted at 12:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep14	Top Ten Slouching Students - Indiana University Lazier Than University of Texas Bill Belew September 14, 2006 I'd like to go to the number one school on this list. The Princeton Review ranks the schools whose students say they NEVER study, well almost never study. Still, these schools are among the top ten percent in the nation.... Continue Reading Posted at 5:20 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	FBI Screens FAFSA Bill Belew September 14, 2006 For the past five years, students who have applied for Pell Grants have also allowed themselves and their records to be screened by the FBI. The AP reported that the FBI gave about 1,000 names to the Education Department of... Continue Reading Posted at 9:26 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	D-Q University - American Indian Tribal College Closes Down Bill Belew September 14, 2006 D-Q University is one of America's first tribal colleges. According to insidehighered it has graduated hundreds of American Indians and non-Indian students in the past 30 years. Let me see - hundreds in 30 years? That must be less than... Continue Reading Posted at 6:20 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Fairmont Properties Builds College Towns Bill Belew September 14, 2006 Fairmont Properties is commercial property development firm based in Cleveland, OH. The company also does about $250 million of work each year building College Towns. One of the principals at Fairmont said, "We got a sense that in today's competitive... Continue Reading Posted at 3:19 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - Testing (part 4) Bill Belew September 14, 2006 There are state tests administered annually in grades three through eight and once in high school. There are prep books, study materials and such now for all those tests. President Bush is considering expanding high school testing. Can you think... Continue Reading Posted at 12:43 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep13	University of Pennsylvania CanNOT Just Teach Bill Belew September 13, 2006 It is not enough for colleges and universities to teach any more. The director of external relations at the University of Pennsylvania says, there is a "responsibility to contribute to the landscape in the most positive way it can." Universities... Continue Reading Posted at 6:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Stanford, Yale and UPenn Go Cold Turkey On Drug Firm Freebies Bill Belew September 13, 2006 The Stanford University Medical Center plans to follow the lead of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania in refusing freebies (pens, meals, sample drugs, football tickets, etc. ..) from pharmaceutical sales representatives. The purpose is to limit the industry/representative's influence... Continue Reading Posted at 6:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Financial Aid Flow Bill Belew September 13, 2006 Public 2-year colleges offer the cheapest tuition at about 20% of total costs with about 23% of students needing loans to get through. Public 4-year colleges are the next cheapest alternative with about 30% of total costs going for tuition... Continue Reading Posted at 3:45 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - Employee Training - (part 3) Bill Belew September 13, 2006 When I went to work for a fopro in the Bay area of San Francisco, it was a very short time before I was introduced to their online training programs. When I started there were a half dozen of more... Continue Reading Posted at 12:40 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep12	Overseas Colleges/Students Add to the Education Industry Bill Belew September 12, 2006 Many colleges have set up shop overseas - in China, India, Japan and elsewhere. Additionally, according to the Institute of International Education as many as 565,000 students have come to the states from overseas. And all of them are paying... Continue Reading Posted at 9:39 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Barnes & Noble Likes Education Change Bill Belew September 12, 2006 The College Board changed the SAT test format last year. The first question on the test - How much money was spent on creating new practice tests, study guides and prepartion materials for the new SAT test? Answer: too much... Continue Reading Posted at 6:41 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Eduventures Predicts Growth in For-profit Education Market Bill Belew September 12, 2006 The National Center for Edcuation Statistics is predicting that the number of adults 25 years and older who will be attending college by 2014 will grow by 19%! It is the fopros that cater to these adults the best. Consequently,... Continue Reading Posted at 3:38 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Education is Big Business - No Child Left Behind - $25 billion a year Industry (part 2) Bill Belew September 12, 2006 According to Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. Inc. a St. Louis based broker-dealer investment firm, the No Child Left Behind Act is worth some $25 billion a year. The aim of the No Child Left Behind Act is for all children... Continue Reading Posted at 12:37 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep11	Education is Big Business - Approaching 1 Trillion Annually (part 1) Bill Belew September 11, 2006 According to the Digest of Education Statistics, education is an $850 billion a year business. Some $500 billion is spent on elementary and secondary schools and $350 million plus goes to degree-granting colleges and universities. The US Census reports that... Continue Reading Posted at 6:00 PM \| Permalink \| Comments
	The Computer Ate My Test Scores - Educational Testing Services Bill Belew September 11, 2006 If a kid were to say this, would anybody believe them? The computer ate the test scores is what the Educational Testing Services is saying happened to 1500 Advanced Placement tests from this year. Educational Testing Services administers the Advanced... Continue Reading Posted at 6:35 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Missouri Wants Not-for-Profit Group to Oversee State Education Bill Belew September 11, 2006 As if the bureaucracy in education wasn't complicated and inefficient enough, now the state of Missouri wants a not-for-profit group to oversee the math, engineering, technology and science (METS) education in their state. The governor of Missouri appointed a 20-member... Continue Reading Posted at 3:34 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Sale of MOHELA Assets Raise Flags Despite Benefit to Students Bill Belew September 11, 2006 According to columbianmissourian.com the governor of Missouri leaked out on a weekend that the state is planning on selling the assets of Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority. The price tag for these assets - $350 million. $335 million of that... Continue Reading Posted at 12:33 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep10	Beijing Olympics Have Double the Volunteers They Need 2 Years Early Bill Belew September 10, 2006 Over 150,000 apply to be volunteers for 2008 Olympics What that means is that those running the various venues at the Olympics can be very choosy. The Olympic organizers estimate that they only need 70,000 volunteers for the... Continue Reading Posted at 4:32 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 8	Caltech Students Study Harder than MIT Students Bill Belew September 8, 2006 Hard is relative. Just because a student says s/he study harders doesn't mean that s/he is a better student...it could be the opposite. Study hard also doesn't mean study smart. Nevertheless this list by Princeton Review addresses which school students... Continue Reading Posted at 4:17 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Arizona State University Makes Money off of Chinese Students Bill Belew September 8, 2006 I have read over and over that one, if not the biggest, problem in China is the lack of skilled knowledgeable managers. Arizona State University saw that as a means of making money - find a need and fill it... Continue Reading Posted at 2:11 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Coffice Bill Belew September 8, 2006 I wrote about a new word - pracademic. Here is a word I'd like to add to the English language - COFFICE. It is a combination of Coffee and Office...It is also where I spend my afternoons, many of them... Continue Reading Posted at 12:01 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 7	Massachusettes Institute of Technology is Tougher Than Harvard to Get Into Unless You have a Thumbprint Scanner Bill Belew September 7, 2006 This list addresses which school students think are the toughest to get into. 10. Columbia University in NYC 9. University Of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia 8. Washington University in St. Louis in St. Louis - I'd never heard of this school... Continue Reading Posted at 7:12 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Pracademics Bill Belew September 7, 2006 I wish I could remember where I first came across this word. Actually I wish I could claim to have created it. A pracademic is a faculty member who actually practices the academic discipline s/he is teaching. University of Phoenix... Continue Reading Posted at 5:00 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	Professor Admits to Not Knowing 90% of His Students at UC Berkeley Bill Belew September 7, 2006 An intro to Chemistry teacher admitted in a San Jose Mercury Newspaper to NOT KNOWING 90% of his students. It could be because he has 500 students each in three lectures that he offers daily. Or, it could be, that... Continue Reading Posted at 2:59 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UC Santa Cruz Houses Upperclassmen in University Inn - UC Davis Slops Grease on Them and Crams Them In Bill Belew September 7, 2006 The University of California school system has too many students. UC, unlike private schools, can't turn applicants away IF the student meets its eligibility requirements. Who would have known? To accomodate an unexpected high number of freshmen, UC Santa Cruz... Continue Reading Posted at 12:58 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 6	University Of Phoenix to be Sued for Billions? Bill Belew September 6, 2006 Inside Higher Ed :: U. of Phoenix Loses in U.S. Court reports on the overturn of a lower courts decision that allowed University of Phoenix to continue to 'sell' the school the way it has been...thus growing it to the... Continue Reading Posted at 6:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	UC Schools Can't Handle Incoming Freshmen Bill Belew September 6, 2006 We don't have enough students. We have too many students. Is there any way to appease the traditional universities? The San Jose Mercury News reported that the University of California campuses are expecting to see at least 4000 more new... Continue Reading Posted at 4:56 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Chicago Beats Stanford, Harvard for Best Academic Experience Bill Belew September 6, 2006 The Princeton Review rankings are a source of much debate, maybe even a few fist fights when the schools are neighbors. The book ranks schools in some 60+ different categories. The results are based on surveys given to those who... Continue Reading Posted at 2:52 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	University of Phoenix Largest US College Bill Belew September 6, 2006 Last month, the University of Phoenix passed up ALL US colleges and universities in population of students. University of Phoenix now boasts a student population of 115,794, three times what it was just five years ago. If the student body... Continue Reading Posted at 12:48 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 5	Kaplan University made $1 Billion for Washington Post Bill Belew September 5, 2006 Like 'em or hate 'em, fopros, online and brick and mortar types are here to stay. I can't imagine Washington Post wanting to do away with the likes of Kaplan University which raked in over $1 billion in revenues for... Continue Reading Posted at 4:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments

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