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Scuba diving in Papua New Guinea

“With increased longevity and economic instability, older adults are looking for greater mobility across educational, work, and community environments. Now more than ever, lifelong learning plays a critical role in their lives and higher education must find ways to better serve this huge pool of potential learners.”
Molly Corbett Broad
President
American Council on Education
Executive Briefing
Is there a yacht in your future?
Source: The Triton

The 2008 presidential election will certainly have an impact. Here's a group who expects to be affected from whom you'll rarely hear.
Marketing
90 percent of parents choose their kids’ colleges on the web
Joe Dysart

The web is a primary marketing tool today—if not THE tool.

A Gazette Minute Interview

Don Pyle, Chief Executive Officer, Netcordia, Inc.Don Pyle
Chief Executive Officer
Netcordia, Inc.

As the stakes rise for campus network failures and outages, the solutions emerge. Don Pyle talks about healthy 'IT plumbing.'
Executive Briefing
Guidance in the social minefield of university etiquette

Mind your table manners, your eye contact and—your underwear!
Executive Briefing
Globalization and the engineering giant, DuPont
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan

What does a company that operates globally expect of today's graduating college students?

Overheard

Overheard at...
Annual Student Lending Conference
Consumer Bankers Association
Arlington, VA   |   December 3 -5
 
Michael McFarlane, Joe Belew, Ron Gambill, Sandy Baum, Dick George, and more...
Special e-Series
The third dimension of academics, Champlain style
Part 2 of 2
Florence Kizza

How can a student be taught to connect to big ideas?

Extreme Travel

A winter journey
in
West Africa

Herschell
Gordon Lewis
takes us along
on a trip through
Western Africa.

Remember This?
Spiro Agnew wristwatch
A.G. Gancarski
 
A popular joke in the first term of the Nixon presidency was, “Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.”
A Gazette Minute Interview

A Gazette Minute with Chris LongChris Long
President & COO
Cappex.com
How can admissions office staff broaden and refine the audience of youthful college prospects, then lower the cost of communicating with them? Chris Long explains.

Executive Briefing
What do "gappers" do in those gap years?
Jonathan Liebman

How do students and colleges benefit from time off between high school and college?

Sustainability
Socially responsible investing by campuses for their own accounts
Tom Robinson

The demand for socially responsible investing (SRI) now affects college endowments and faculty and staff retirement plans.

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I am a middle-class student in my senior year at Cajon High School… My family cannot afford to send me to college for the price it costs. Especially during our current economic crisis, it seems as if students who are in the middle class get the short end of the stick… I do not know if it is because of how the government identifies middle class people, but what I do know is that if we can afford to give $700 billion to financial companies with no strings attached, then we can afford to give $80,000 to students to pay for their college education. Daniel Lopez, writing in the San Bernardino County Sun

Overheard
Last year, guarantors led more than 13,000 financial aid workshops and events, trained more than 8,000 school guidance counselors and reached more than 1.2 million students and families. Karen Lanning, Vice President, NCHELP in a USA Funds newsletter

Overheard
Not every 17-year-old is ready to enter college, and a gap year... allows them to be in the real world, do service and approach college much more deliberately. Karen Giannino, senior associate dean of admission at Colgate College, in a Wall Street Journal article about gap years. Click here to read a Greentree Gazette article on the same topic.

Deals
The Princeton Review will sell its K-12 Services Division to CORE Projects & Technologies Limited, an education technology company, for $9.5 million.

Potpourri
New York University lost $24 million in investments managed by Wall Street trader Bernard Madoff, reports Bloomberg.

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UCEA Workforce Development Forum
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ACUTA Winter Seminar
Palm Springs, CA, varies

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