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Rob LaBreche, CEO, iGrad
Financial literacy and job-seeking abilities are needed by twenty-somethings before and after graduation.  How well are they doing?  What's available to boost their skills or give them an edge?  Rob LaBreche knows the ropes, and he may have recently unveiled a 'killer app' for modern job seekers. 



Today's Campus Update
Features ... A rookie college ranking debuts.  Will it challenge U.S. News?  Must big fundraising efforts result in little payoff?  Can college be more affordable?  What's happened to online higher education?   Also ... Most popular articles and interviews. 



What happened to online education?
While overall consumer interest has showed a  year-to-year decline, one market segment clearly wants online education the most.  Wes Kauble shares TCAT survey results. 



Keith Landis, Managing Director , Collegiate Advisors, LLC
CPAs, tax practitioners and various other counselors are advising American families about their college purchases.  Keith Landis and his firm are advising the advisors.  He shares some interesting observations.   



Jem Spectar, President, U of Pittsburgh, Johnstown
How does a world-class university serve a mid-size community in a down economy?


Today's Campus Update. July 2010



Overheard at NASFAA, Part 2
In a campus office that's always dealing with remarkable complexity, there's an apparent desire - and even some movement - toward simplification.  Here are more choice morsels from this year's annual conference of financial aid administrators.   



Overheard at NASFAA, Part 1
In a campus office that's always dealing with remarkable complexity, there's an apparent desire - and even some movement - toward simplification.  Here are some choice morsels from this year's annual conference of financial aid administrators.   



No Matter the Crisis, a Communications Plan Is Critical
Recent news reports from a pair of campuses amplify the need for a plan. At the University of Virginia, a male lacrosse player with an apparent history of violence allegedly beat to death his former girlfriend, a member of the woman's lacrosse team. At the University of Alabama-Huntsville, a female professor who just had been denied tenure shot and killed three colleagues and wounded three others.  By Anne Sceia Klein




So Sue Me - Internship or slave labor?
Uncle Sam’s Increased Attention to Student Workers Generates Concerns and Suits.  Part 2.  By Jim Castagnera.


So Sue Me - Internship or slave labor?
Uncle Sam’s Increased Attention to Student Workers Generates Concerns and Suits.  Will unpaid internships have much more of a future.  Part 1. By Jim Castagnera.


Overheard at at the Consumer Bankers Assn
Under new leadership the Consumer Bankers Association combined several of its annual meetings and workshops into one spring meeting.  Among the 780 attendees were the bankers and lenders who still make up a considerably slimmer student loan industry.  Many attendees found the wider-than-customary mix of retail banking sessions enlightening.  Others did not appreciate the distraction from student loans. 


Robin Richards, CEO, Internships.com

Robin Richards founded NTI Group and sold it in 2008 to Blackboard for $182 million.  That followed a $373 million earlier success involving MP3.com. He and his entrepreneurial team are now taking on student internships.  Such a deal!




Five indispensable talents graduates need to succeed in the workplace
 
New + Notable by Tom Robinson
 
Here are five more talents to add to the list of things colleges should do to prepare their students.  Five that employers should be seeking in recent grads.
 



What’s new in student loans?

A new law and some new rules - both with 2014 implementation dates.  Don't let them distract you from the misnamed 'gainful employment' struggle that may well be a stalking horse for something else entirely.  By Jeff Wendt



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