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Tim’s Tips: Backwards on Racial Understanding
Backwards on Racial Understanding Inside Higher Education April 10, 2012 – 3:00am By Scott Jaschik One stereotype about college is that the experience encourages students to be more interested in diversity and promoting racial understanding. To some this is a great virtue of higher education; to critics, this suggests academe is too focused on diversity. [...]
Tim’s Tips: Mixed Portrait of Freshman Political Views
January 26, 2012 The Chronicle of Higher Education Mixed Portrait of Freshman Political Views Their beliefs may lean liberal, but their politics tell a different story By Libby Sander New research reveals that college freshmen hold increasingly liberal views on key social issues like same-sex marriage and rights for illegal immigrants. But the progressive viewpoints [...]
Tim’s Tips: Live and Let Live (and Study)
Live and Let Live (and Study) Survey finds freshmen more liberal-leaning, academically focused January 26, 2012 – 3:00am Inside Higher Education By Allie Grasgreen Even though the percentage of incoming freshmen who identify as conservative has stayed relatively stable, those students and the rest of their peers are shifting away from hard-line conservative stances on [...]
Tim’s Tips: What I learned in 2011: There is always a backstory
What I learned in 2011: There is always a backstory January 18, 2012, 7:12 am The Chronicle of Higher Education By Robert Talbert Here’s a previous article in an ongoing series of What I Learned in 2011. While it was still on TV, the show LOST was a favorite of mine. No, that’s not strong [...]
Tim’s Tips: On One Campus, Students Find Funds for Peers in Need
December 14, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education On One Campus, Students Find Funds for Peers in Need By Beckie Supiano Jarquisha Hollings can count on generous financial aid at Emory University, but it doesn’t cover everything, especially when life takes unexpected turns. Her mother and stepfather have both been out of work and recently [...]
Tim’s Tips: Dean’s List: Eleven Habits of Highly Successful College Students
Dean’s List: Eleven Habits of Highly Successful College Students Teacher’s College Record reviewed by Margaret Austin Smith — December 01, 2011 It would be nearly impossible to imagine John Bader, a dean of Undergraduate Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University and author of Dean’s List: 11 Habits of Highly Successful College Students, ever uttering the [...]
Tim’s Tips: At the U. of Kentucky, First-Generation Freshmen Get a Residence of Their Own
December 4, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education At the U. of Kentucky, First-Generation Freshmen Get a Residence of Their Own By Lacey Johnson When Brittany Boreing heard she had received a special scholarship for students who are the first in their families to attend college, she cried. The extra $5,000 a year would be [...]
Tim’s Tips: Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’
Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Seattle PI Published 09:05 p.m., Saturday, December 3, 2011 Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead [...]
Tim’s Tips: Joaquin Luna DREAM Act
Joaquin Luna DREAM Act Inside Higher Education November 27, 2011 – 10:02pm By Dean Dad This story makes my heart hurt. Joaquin Luna, a high school senior in California, committed suicide on Friday. He wanted to become an engineer to provide a better life for his mother, but realized that his status as an illegal [...]
Tim’s Tips: Middle-Income Students Benefit Most From Educational Tax Breaks, Study Finds
Middle-Income Students Benefit Most From Educational Tax Breaks, Study Finds November 18, 2011, 12:23 am The Chronicle of Higher Education Nearly half of undergraduates in the 2007-8 academic year received an education tax benefit, with dependent students from middle-income families receiving them at a higher rate, and in higher amounts, than those from low- and high-income [...]