Graduation rates
10 Great Ways to Cut College Costs
How do you cut the cost of college? Recently I shared 10 tips on the first session of #CollegeChat, which is a live monthly conversation for teens, college students and parents on Twitter. I pulled all the tips from my new eBook, Shrinking the Cost of College: 152 Ways to Cut the Price of a […]
17Jun2010 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
Shrinking the Cost of College: Twitter Chat Tonight
If you’d like to learn more about shrinking the cost of college, I’ll be sharing advice on the first edition of #CollegeChat at 6 p.m. PST tonight on Twitter. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to find this one-hour college Twitter chat. You can find the instructions at the bottom of this post. During […]
1Jun2010 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
Graduate School Programs? Shopping for the Right One
How do you shop for graduate school programs? With the economy still floundering, more Americans are considering attending graduate school. But how do you find the best ones? Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thomas A. Benton, an English professor at Hope College made a stab at answering that question. He observed that the […]
19Apr2010 | Lynn | 1 comment | ContinuedCollege Graduation Rates: Beware of Wildly Different Grad Rates
Here’s a grim college graduation rate statistic: Fewer than 60% of college students graduate in six years. Of course, noncompetitive schools, which accept nearly all comers, drag down the national graduation rates. For instance, only 12.1% of students at Mountain State University in Beckley, WV, which accepts all its applicants, graduate in six years. In […]
15Apr2010 | Lynn | 3 comments | ContinuedCollege Search: 6 Ways to Find the Right College
Where do you begin a college search? When you research colleges, you’re going to want to find schools that will provide your teenagers with an excellent education and get them out the door in four years. But how do you even start such a daunting college search? Scattered around my blog, I’ve written plenty about […]
12Apr2010 | Lynn | 2 comments | Continued
March Madness Basketball Brackets: Who Shouldn’t Get an Invite?
With March Madness in full swing, I want to pose this question: Should schools be allowed a spot in the NCAA basketball brackets if they can’t manage to graduate their basketball players? I think it’s only fair to bar these basketball teams from participating in March Madness and, more importantly, so does Arne Duncan, a […]
19Mar2010 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
Top 10 College Websites for Finding Great Schools
Want to research colleges, but not sure where to start? It’s no surprise. When I just typed “college” into Google, I got 634 million college websites. To make your job easier, I’m sharing wonderful websites that can help you assemble a great list of colleges. If you want to research specific colleges, here are my […]
11Jan2010 | Lynn | 10 comments | Continued
New College Website: Research Colleges Like a Pro
Today I want to share with you a great new web site that can help you research colleges: College Insight. College Insight has gathered detailed information on nearly 5,000 colleges and universities in this country. You can find statistics for any school on such topics as these: College affordability. Check out statistics on tuition and […]
12Nov2009 | Lynn | 0 comments | Continued
Naming Names: A List of the Most Generous Colleges
In the last few days, I’ve been working on an assignment about college rankings — when it’s published I’ll be sure to link to the article. Today, however, I thought I’d provide links to some helpful college lists courtesy of US News & World Report. Colleges Giving the Most Merit Scholarships One question that I […]
7Sep2009 | Lynn | 0 comments | ContinuedWhy You Should Check Out the College Navigator
All week I’ve been sharing great tools to research colleges. Today I want to feature the federal College Navigator. The College Navigator is a dull-looking website, but it contains incredible tools that tap into a vast college database that the U.S. Department of Education maintains. To illustrate what College Navigator can do, I’m using as […]
2Sep2009 | Lynn | 1 comment | Continued
