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Textbooks for less?
Starting this year, a new law will require colleges to release the ISBNs and book prices for every class as students are registering. The law was part of the Higher Education Opportunity Act and will go into effect sometime this summer. For most of us students who need to be careful with textbook prices, this…
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News: Study Abroad is Helpful for Students!
I came across more than one article on my RSS feed this week about the study reported in Inside Higher Education that students who studied abroad do better in school upon their return. Most of the articles I read seemed to take the stance that merely suggesting that studying abroad was useful to education was…
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Back to the future
Before launching into the real reason for my post I wanted to bring something to everyone’s attention: the “future” date that Michael J Fox set his time travel for has passed. Somehow this makes me feel even older than when I realized that 1984 was over long before I picked up a copy of Orwell’s…
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Wow! Such new and great things happening.
Hey all! Just wanted to let you know that I was published over on College Times! It’s exciting to be able to do a little writing on the side just for fun. Go check it out: http://collegetimes.us/4-essential-things-to-think-about-before-sophomore-year/ –A
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Sorry for the lack of posts…
I’m so sorry that I haven’t been posting on here very regularly. Part of it is that there’s not a whole lot to report on the study abroad front and part of it is that I’m blogging over at Six Items or Less everyday! If you haven’t done so already, go check it out. Here…