Community Colleges changing what it’s like to be a student. These changes are simply reshaping the experience and could wind up helping students in the long run. The community college is an underrated asset to the college student. When students spend there first two years at a community college they don’t have the other disturbances (good or bad) that students who are living a school face.

If you want to make your career something special, you need to get radical, says author Sally Hogshead.

Controversy is brewing at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, where school officials have recently started to enforce an old rule that requires on-campus residents to maintain at least a 2.0 GPA.
The New York Times reports that one student, whose grades slipped due to an illness during exam week, received a letter informing her of this policy on… Click to read more

Getting the good job requires more than a great GPA and ambition. Knowing a person or two doesn’t hurt, either.

My parents love to talk about the worth of a liberal arts education. You go to college, you take a wide range of classes, you work hard, you get somewhere. Simple as that. Sort of like that whole ‘American Dream’ thing. But does taking a bunch of different classes and working hard really equal post-graduate prosperity?Other people, evidently, a… Click to read more

It wasn’t by choice.
I attended an elite boarding school in Massachusetts (via scholarship, thank you very much) for the sole purpose of attending Harvard. I loved Boston, and I had dreams of going to a place where my intelligence would be respected, not mocked.
When I started applying to schools in the fall, my GPA was high and I had a ton of extracurricu… Click to read more