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  Member College News
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 		Entire Athletic Training Senior Class at King's (Pa.) College Pass Certification Exam on First Attempt
posted: 15 hours ago   source: kings.edu  
All 15 graduating seniors of King’s College’s Athletic Training Education Program (ATEP) have passed the national Board of Certification (BOC) certification examination on their first attempt, the largest number of graduates to complete the feat in the program’s 13-year history.
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  College Admissions News
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 		Backer of Common Core School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board
posted: May 17th   source: nytimes.com  
David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become the president of the College Board, starting in October. The College Board, a membership organization of high schools and colleges that administers the SAT, the Advanced Placement program and other standardized tests, appears poised to "design high-quality curriculum."
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  Member College News
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 		New SVC program teaches philanthropy, funds groups
posted: May 15th   source: benningtonbanner.com  
BENNINGTON -- The inaugural philanthropy class at Southern Vermont College wrapped up with a culminating ceremony to recognize three local organizations who were awarded grants from the class Monday.

The class of 18 students formed three groups that each awarded $1,667 grants to organizations that offer youth enrichment activities, work with victims of child abuse or provide activities for children with autism.
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  Member College News
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 		SVC to rent space in mill for classes, offices
posted: May 15th   source: benningtonbanner.com  
BENNINGTON -- Southern Vermont College announced Monday plans to lease 10,000 square feet of the Vermont Mill Properties on Benmont Avenue to house its nursing and radiologic sciences programs.

SVC and mill owner Jon Goodrich have agreed to a 10-year lease of 5,000 square feet on both the third and fourth floors to centralize the nursing program and help solve space issues the college is seeing as enrollment...
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  Member College News
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 		SVC celebrates an (unusual) perfect day
posted: May 15th   source: benningtonbanner.com  
Graduating Southern Vermont College students enjoyed a picturesque commencement atop the hill and received some parting advice before moving their mortarboard tassels from right to left.

"We're here today to say, ‘Bravo, well done,'" opened Deborah Wiley, president of the college's Board of Trustees. Citing a "long-standing tradition" of precipitation on graduation, Wiley apologized for Saturday's sunny skies....
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  Paying For College
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 		Slowly, as Student Debt Rises, Colleges Confront Costs
posted: May 15th   source: nytimes.com  
At a time of diminished state & uncertain federal funding for higher education, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee says that public colleges and universities need to devise a new business model to pay for the costs of education, beyond sticking students with higher tuition and greater debt. He keeps a framed quotation that reads, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
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  General College News
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 		‘Lost generation’ talk is overblown
posted: May 14th   source: articles.philly.com  
How many college grads move back in with their parents? GOP political ads are claiming 85%. But a new Pew Research Center study found that only 39% of adults ages 18 to 34 moved back in with their parents, even temporarily, in recent years. Up to age 30, college grads are as likely as non-graduates to live with the folks. After age 30, only 10% of college grads remain in their parents’ homes - versus 22% of those...
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Parents also must avoid crippling student debt
posted: May 14th   source: articles.chicagotribune.com  
In the past 5 years, as college prices have soared and households have suffered financial trouble, parents have increased their borrowing about 33% through federal Parent PLUS loans. The average single-year federal Parent PLUS loan was $12,000 this school year, compared with $9,850 in 2007.
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  Paying For College
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 		Degrees of Debt: A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College
posted: May 14th   source: nytimes.com  
With more than $1 trillion in U.S. student loans outstanding, crippling debt is no longer confined to dropouts from for-profit colleges or graduate students who owe on many years of education. 93% of bachelor's degree students now borrow to pay for college - up from 45% in 1993. A college degree statistically remains a good lifetime investment, but it often comes with an unprecedented financial burden.
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Much Ado About Student Loan Rate 'Double or Nothing'
posted: May 11th   source: nytimes.com  
College students will pay only about $6 a month extra per year of loans. The rate increase, on Stafford Loans only, won’t affect previous loans - just new loans. What's worse: Congress recently made it even tougher for poor students to qualify for the full Pell grant ($5,550, hardly a princely sum), cutting family income eligibility from $32,000 to $23,000.
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  Tuition & Financial Aid News
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 		Republicans in Senate Block Bill on Student Loan Rates
posted: May 10th   source: nytimes.com  
Senate Republicans blocked consideration of a Democratic bill to prevent the doubling of some student loan interest rates, leaving the legislation in limbo less than two months before rates on subsidized federal loans are set to shoot upward. Democrats managed 52 votes for and Republicans 45 votes against the procedural motion, so it failed to reach the 60 votes needed to begin debate.
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  Member College News
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 		Two King's (Pa.) College Seniors Receive Fulbright Awards to Teach English in Europe
posted: May 7th   source: kings.edu  
Two King’s College seniors have been selected to receive a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) and will spend almost a year teaching English in a European country.
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  College Savings News
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 		States Are Shaking Up Their 529-Plan Lineups
posted: May 7th   source: online.wsj.com  
To attract more parents to college-savings plans, states are making a new round of changes to deliver lower-cost, better-performing investments.

In some states, investors are getting new plan managers, new investment options or both.
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  Member College News
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 		Newsweek Ranks Albright in Top 25 Most Artistic Schools
posted: May 7th   source: albright.edu  
Newsweek’s College Rankings 2011 rated Albright in the top 25 colleges in the country for artistic students. “Most artistic” colleges were selected from colleges across the country “based on how imaginative their student body is, as well as how much the college fosters a creative atmosphere. We considered two metrics that quantify both: the percentage of students majoring in visual or performing arts and the number...
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  Member College News
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 		Watch Our New Commercials & Learn About the 4-Year Graduation Guarantee
posted: May 7th   source: midlandu.edu  
Midland University - celebrating 125 years of learning and leading with purpose. Inspire your passion. Ignite your potential.

Watch our latest television commercial, new for the 2011-12 academic year, featuring current Midland students and President Ben Sasse.
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  Member College News
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 		Carroll College (MT) graduates 293
posted: May 7th   source: carroll.edu  
Hundreds of proud family members used digital cameras, cell phones, and video recorders to capture the commencement ceremony at Carroll College on Saturday. Many people struggled with their technology to get it to properly function. Luckily, Georgina Sievers fixed her camera in time for graduation because earlier in the day for the baccalaureate it didn’t cooperate so well.
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  Member College News
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 		Victor Bull '11 talks about Why PLU?
posted: May 7th   source: youtube.com  
Victor Bull '11 talks about Why PLU?
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  Member College News
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 		Messiah College earns place on 2012 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
posted: May 7th   source: blogs.messiah.edu  
Messiah has been recognized for its commitment to service on campus and in the community with a place on the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
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  General College News
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 		Commencement address key element of college ceremonies
posted: May 7th   source: daytondailynews.com  
Cedarville University began a relationship with Franklin Graham, son of evangelist Billy Graham, when students traveled to New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and saw work by Graham’s Samaritan’s Purse organization.
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  Campus Finances
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 		Costs play bigger role in college choices - Students reject dream schools for less-pricey options
posted: May 7th   source: dispatch.com  
The hardest part of Sophie Shemas’ college decision was turning down her dream school. The Dublin Coffman High School senior couldn’t justify taking a loan to help pay for New York University’s annual $61,000 price tag when she could graduate debt-free from the University of Cincinnati, which will cost about $20,500 a year with tuition and housing.
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