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Showing posts with label COVID. Show all posts
Sunday, May 14, 2023

Get smart before you go to college because you might not get smarter while you're there

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  I had a stroke last month, and I spent three weeks at a rehab center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During my time there, I was treated by sev...
Friday, March 11, 2022

Like Prisoners on Death Row: 25 million student debtors may get another reprieve from making their student-loan payments

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Around 2,500 prisoners sit on Death Row in American prisons. Nearly 700 condemned men await death in the Golden State of California. A coup...
Monday, January 3, 2022

Is 2022 the year when young people should postpone college?

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  "Nobody thinks of anything as long as his luck is good," Kurt Vonnegut observed in one of his novels.  "Why should he?...
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Thursday, December 16, 2021

Omicron variant harasses American colleges: "I've enjoyed as much of this as I can stand!"

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  Porter Wagoner, singing about a chance encounter with an ex-girlfriend, quickly bade farewell. "I've enjoyed as much of this as I...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Storino v. New York University: 1984 comes to NYU

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Marc Santonocito, Ashley Storino, and Elnaz Pourasgari--all students at New York University--did some bad, bad things!  During the summer of...
Monday, September 6, 2021

"If I knew then what I know now, I probably would have skipped college": Freshman enrollment is down 13 percent at 4-year schools

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Freshman enrollment dropped an astonishing  13 percent last year, and overall college enrollment sank 4 percent.  What accounts for this ex...
Friday, July 2, 2021

40-year home mortgages: Is that a good idea?

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 The chickens have come home to roost.  The federal government allowed millions of homeowners to suspend payments on their mortgages during ...
Sunday, March 7, 2021

"Becker College on the Brink of Closure": Small, private colleges are sliding toward oblivion

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As reported in Inside Higher Ed , Becker College is on the brink of closure. Located in Worchester, Massachusetts (no garden spot), Becker...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

SUNY chancellor Jim Malatras chirps cheerily while college enrollment applications plunge 20 percent

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 College enrollment applications plunged 20 percent at the State University of New York, an enormous college system with 64 campuses. The c...