Associate’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree

Putting an Associate’s Degree next to a Bachelor’s Degree is like mixing apples and oranges and not expecting to see a difference. There is no way a two-year program can cover the same material as a four-year, more in-depth program. Each program comes with its very own positive and negative quotations and some serious thinking [...]

Virginia Tech’s New Emergency Alert System Failed During a “Gunfire” Sound Scare

It was a false alarm, although Virginia Tech (VT) students didn’t know it at the time when they reported hearing gunshots near one of its buildings. VT police flooded the scene and surrounded the building, searching for suspects who may have contributed to the sound. Share and Enjoy:FacebookTwitterGoogle BookmarksemailPrintPDFStumbleUpondel.icio.usYahoo! BuzzPing.fmRedditDiggLiveLinkedInMySpaceTechnoratiRSS

Guide to Student Loan Consolidation

Today more students than ever are graduating college with larger levels of student debt. While student loans provide an excellent financing tool to pay for the cost of higher education, the cost of repaying such loans following graduation can often be steep for many new graduates, especially when faced with an entry-level salary and the [...]

Comparing Colleges: More Differences Within Them Than Between Them

A survey revealed that the quality of an undergraduate education varies more within colleges when comparing them than between colleges, making rankings misleading. Share and Enjoy:FacebookTwitterGoogle BookmarksemailPrintPDFStumbleUpondel.icio.usYahoo! BuzzPing.fmRedditDiggLiveLinkedInMySpaceTechnoratiRSS

Dept. of Education Takes Steps to Ensure Students Continue to Have Access to Federal Student Aid

Access to higher education may no longer be a big problem to some as the U.S. Department of Education started taking steps in ensuring that students can have an “uninterrupted and timely” access to federal student aid via the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP) and the Direct Loan Program. Share and Enjoy:FacebookTwitterGoogle BookmarksemailPrintPDFStumbleUpondel.icio.usYahoo! BuzzPing.fmRedditDiggLiveLinkedInMySpaceTechnoratiRSS

What kinds of tools do you use in the classroom to help students understand the assignments?

I guess I’m a simple man; I tend to rely most on personal, direct communication and a whiteboard to get my ideas across. For many of my colleagues who are younger than me (I turned 42 at the end of August), PowerPoint seems to be a way of life, but not so much for me. [...]