Hardwick Day Updates

NACAC, Baltimore

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:30 GMT

Event Link:

http://www.nacacnet.org/eventstraining/nc09/Pages/default.aspx

Thu, 09/24/2009 - Sat, 09/26/2009

Minneapolis College Fair

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:31 GMT

Event Link:

http://www.mn-acac.org/?s=fairs_national

Wed, 09/30/2009 - Thu, 10/01/2009

College Board Forum, New York City

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:32 GMT

Event Link:

http://www.collegeboard.com

Wed, 10/21/2009

CIC Presidents Institute

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:34 GMT

Event Link:

http://www.cic.org

Mon, 01/04/2010 - Thu, 01/07/2010

College Board Colloquium

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:35 GMT

Event Link:

http://professionals.collegeboard.com/prof-dev/events/cb-colloquium

Sat, 01/09/2010 - Mon, 01/11/2010

College budget cutbacks go outside the box (USA Today)

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:14 GMT

When students and professors return to budget-slashing colleges this fall, they might notice things missing, such as limitless piles of food on their plates, land-line phones and trash pickup. Among the more creative college cutbacks: Dumping trash pick up, cutting phone lines, no more free printing, selling school vehicles, and draining the pool.

Colleges drop SAT, but still buy names of high-scoring students (Boston Globe)

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 05:10 GMT

Colleges from Bowdoin in Maine to Pitzer in California dropped the SAT entrance exam as a requirement, saying it favors the affluent, penalizes minorities, and doesn’t predict academic success. What they don’t advertise is that they find future students by buying names of those who do well on the test. Students are being duped by some schools into thinking that test scores don’t matter, when they matter a great deal for marketing outreach and prestige, said Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., which neither requires the tests nor buys names. Test-optional colleges that buy names of high-scoring students are hypocritical, he said.

Frigid North Dakota is a hot draw for out-of-state college students (WSJ)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:25 GMT

The state ranks 48th in the U.S. at attracting tourists. Its young people routinely flee for warmer or more exciting places. The private sector here, struggling to lure sufficient numbers of workers from elsewhere, is wrestling with labor shortages even amid national unemployment around 9%. But college students are flocking here in ever greater numbers. High school juniors and seniors scouring online college guides find North Dakota universities are inexpensive and well-regarded, with modest-sized classes typically taught by faculty members rather than adjuncts or graduate students.

4 out of 5 in community college want to transfer, report says (NYT)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:17 GMT

As many as four out of five community college students in the United States want to transfer to a four-year institution so they can obtain a bachelor’s degree, according to a report released Thursday by the College Board. The main problem colleges face in the process of admitting transfer students, the report says, is advising. While first- and second-year undergraduates have usually completed a general education program and decided on a major, transfer students may have taken completely different classes that make the advising process complicated.

Must all colleges show their graduates found work? (NPR)

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:05 GMT

Now that the Education Department has released "Gainful Employment" rules for for-profit schools, some would like to see similar standards for non-profit colleges and universities. With student debt increasing, they say it would be useful for students to know what their job chances are. [4 min. audio]