Today’s post si isnpried by the news that Champain College in Vermont has launched a program for Entreprenuers:
Burlington Free Press.com | Business:
At Champlain, students must submit their concepts or actual businesses to get into the BYObiz program, which is not a major and is not just for business majors. BYObiz gives students guidance and expert [...]

Summer time!
Time for rest…reflection…rejuvination…and renewal…
Lots’ of you want to keep exploring and preparing for colleges…here is my Baker’s dozen of free thins to do.
1)      Get to know yourself better via personal inventories.
a.      Carl Jung, the famous Swiss Psychologist provided the theory behind teh Myers-Briggs test. Now someone as done a version for you online for [...]

I installed Clustrmaps a while ago–back in April to be exact. Although I have had this site for over a ear and a hlf, I wanted to start tracking who was checking it out. Cluster Maps is that little map on the left hand side of the page.

In the last 24 hours someone from [...]

WWMT - Digital Channel 3:
The only other time beer was temporarily dethroned in the 18 years of the survey was in 1997 - by the Internet, said Eric Weil, a managing partner at Student Monitor.

I am always on the lookout for trends in education, especially ones that cover college and technology. I write for two [...]

The Prime focus of this blog has been college admissions. I have been following, highlighting and commenting on issues related to college admissions. Today, an article came in highlighting the latest from Piediatrics, a professional journal. The article deals with self-injurious behaviour:
Inside Higher Ed :: Self-Injury Epidemic:
In the survey of 2,875 students at 2 Northeastern [...]

Jay Mathews, venerable and sometimes controversial education writer for the Washington Post offers his list based on reading two books:“Creative Colleges: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and
Writers,” by Elaina Loveland, a former dance teacher and college admissions
expert. “Art Student’s College Guide” by Linda Sweetow and Carol
Brown.
Here is the cut to the list, [...]