Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Hi I’m Julie Larsen and this is the BreakDrink Daily Dose for Thursday, January 26th. MTV Wants to Help You Find a Scholarship MTV has launched a Facebook app called “My College Dollars” which uses information from your profile to auto-fill a form, and [...]
Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Texas Association of Business Blasts Community Colleges With Billboards Billboards have been popping up around Dallas and Austin, TX referencing low completion rates from the cities’ community college systems. A Dallas billboard reads “8% of DCCCD students graduate in 3 yrs. Is that fair [...]
Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Funds Wasted on Student Summit Event – A new rule will now make students repay funds if they do not attend conferences. ‘Tis the Season for Finals, but Not for Running Naked – Naked running at Tufts could now result in penalties and suspensions. [...]
Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Gary and Julie were back to discuss the recent events in student affairs. DC Human Rights agency says “single-sex dorms” are not discriminatory Controversy over Shorter University faith statment Fisk University wants to sell Georgia O’Keeffe collection UC Davis run down: Recap of Town [...]
Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio American Association of Community Colleges Creates Accountability System The American Association of Community Colleges has released the Voluntary Framework of Accountability as a uniform set of measures to track success among community college students. Tracking students who entered in 2005 and 2009, the data [...]
Share Students Demand Dean of Students Removed (Africa) - Students petition to have the Dean of Students removed for not providing basic needs. University Gives Students Space to Work ‘Remotely’ (Connecticut) - Eastern Connecticut State provides space for students to perform duties of an internship on their campus. Tailgates, Rituals, and Attire (Alabama) - A look at [...]
Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio Where Have All the STEM Majors Gone? New data from UCLA reports that up to 60% of pre-med students and 40% of other STEM students end up changing their major prior to graduation. Many believe that this is due to lower level STEM courses [...]
Share Educated and Jobless: What’s Next for Millenials? Winston Doby Celebrated at UCLA Global Summit to be Held at Nove Southeastern University Service and Sacrifice of Veterans Honored at Eastern Kentucky University
Share Read today’s Daily Dose — audio to come tomorrow! Joe Paterno and President Graham Spanier Let Go from Penn State Late Wednesday night the Board of Trustees at Penn State decided to remove President Graham Spanier and longtime football coach Joe Paterno in the wake of child abuse allegations agains former assistant coach Jerry [...]
Share Listen to internet radio with BreakDrink on Blog Talk Radio President says student life director admits mistake President Robert Zeigler said today he and Dr. Robert Vela, vice president of student affairs, will have additional meetings with the student life director concerning his granting interviews to student reporters. Zeigler and Vela met Thursday with [...]