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Ten Things College Students Waste Money On
College students waste a lot of money. In our blog at OkDissertations.com we gathered 10 main ways they do it and how to decrease the spendings.
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Technology And Its Impact
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Rise in poorer students dropping out of university
The number of disadvantaged students not finishing their studies rises for the second year in a row.
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Fancy Dorms Aren’t The Main Reason Tuition Is Skyrocketing
In 2000, Temple University was primarily a commuter school. On-campus dorms could house fewer than 4,000 students out of a total student body of more than 30,000. Most facilities were badly outdated, and the average student paid $12,800 a year (in 2016 dollars) in tuition to attend. Today, Temple, where I work, looks very different. Beautiful new buildings are the norm rather than the exception. A recently built 24-story dorm and adjoining dining center highlights the university’s transition to a residential campus.
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Survey shows half of college students think student loans will be forgiven
A new survey highlights overwhelming misconceptions current U.S. college students have about their student loans, including the fact that they will actually have to pay them back. Americans owe nearly $1.3 trillion dollars in student loan debt, spread out among a 44.2 million borrowers. According to Student Loan Hero, the average Class of 2016 gradate has $37,172 dollars in student loan debt. That number is up six-percent from last year. The student loan delinquency rate is 11-percent.
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PC students demand white philosophers be dropped off university course
They are titans of philosophy, without whose work an understanding of the subject is all but inconceivable. But now students at a University of London college are demanding that such seminal figures as Plato, Descartes, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell should be largely dropped from the curriculum simply because they are white.
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British students will have to pay to go to German universities after Brexit
Students from outside the European Union will soon have to pay to attend universities in south-west Germany, where until now, courses have been free. Tuition fees were scrapped in Baden-Württemberg state in 2011, and universities became free from cost in all German states by 2014. But despite promising not to introduce general fees earlier this year, the Baden-Württemberg state government has announced the reintroduction of tuition fees to international students from autumn 2017.
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Marie Curie Got Her Start At a Secret University For Women
The controversial Flying University. By Eric Grundhauser.
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Why America's Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education
Their degrees may help them secure entry-level jobs, but to advance in their careers, they’ll need much more than technical skills.
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Under attack
Curbs on free speech are growing tighter. It is time to speak out
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UCLA Shooter Intended to Kill Second Professor
The investigation into a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus took a more sinister turn Thursday when police announced they suspected the shooter earlier killed a woman in Minnesota then drove to Los Angeles to confront a professor he believed had stolen his work. Detectives also believe that Mainak Sarkar, a 38-year-old former engineering graduate student, intended to kill a second professor Wednesday morning, but he could not find him on campus, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said. In a search of Sarkar's home in St. Paul, Minnesota...
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Harvard mumps outbreak grows; dozens infected
Please stop infecting each other. That's the message Harvard University has for students after a mumps outbreak left 40 people sick over the past two months. The university first announced mumps cases in February, and infections have steadily increased despite efforts to isolate patients. Paul J. Barreira, director of the Massachusetts university's health services, told the student newspaper that the rise in cases is worrying.
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Calls for UC Davis chancellor's ouster grow amid Internet scrubbing controversy
The University of California 's student association late Friday called on UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign amid revelations that the university paid to remove Internet references to a 2011 incident in which police pepper-sprayed students.
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University students are struggling to read entire books
Students have reacted to claims from university professors that they struggle to read books from cover to cover by admitting it is true - but insisting it's because universities don't give them enough time to finish them. University academics caused a furore this week by claiming many students found the thought of reading books all the way to the end “daunting”, due to shorter attention spans and an inability to focus on complex philosophies.
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Audit shows UC admission standards relaxed for out-of-staters
The University of California has been admitting thousands of students from out of state with lower grades and test scores than state residents as a way to raise cash, a state audit released Tuesday reveals. In the last three years, nearly 16,000 nonresident undergraduates — about 29 percent of those admitted — have won spots at the coveted public university with grade-point averages and scores below the median of admitted Californians, according to the 116-page audit.
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Pass, Fail
For the past seven years, I’ve polled my students at the University of Prince Edward Island on two questions. First: If you were told today that a university education was no longer a requirement for high-quality employment, would you quit? Second: If you decided to stay, would you then switch programs? Positive responses to both questions run consistently in the 50 percent range. That means at least half of my humanities students...
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Yale investigation finds ‘no evidence’ of racism at frat party alleged to have been for ‘white girls only’
The Ivy League university found no evidence to back up students' claim that a fraternity excluded minorities from a Halloween party, a claim that sparked a recent student movement for greater diversity and inclusivity on campus.
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The Most Militarized Universities in America: A VICE News Investigation
An information and intelligence shift has emerged in America's national security state over the last two decades, and that change has been reflected in the country's educational institutions as they have become increasingly tied to the military, intelligence, and law enforcement worlds. This is why VICE News has analyzed and ranked the 100 most militarized universities in America.
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Fraternity files $25M defamation suit against Rolling Stone
The fraternity that was the focus of a debunked Rolling Stone article about a gang rape filed a $25 million lawsuit against the magazine Monday, saying the piece made the frat and its members "the object of an avalanche of condemnation worldwide." The complaint, filed in Charlottesville Circuit Court, also names Sabrina Rubin Erdely as a defendant. It is the third filed in response to the November 2014 article entitled "A Rape on Campus...
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Alabama version of ‘Skull and Bones’ publicly exposed
The fabled Skull and Bones society is the stuff of lore at Yale University. Harvard University has Final Clubs, known as a grooming place for the rich and powerful. In Tuscaloosa, a group called "The Machine" may not rise to Ivy League heights of prestige or mystique. But it's a powerful force at the University of Alabama... By Jay Reeves.
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