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Featured Scholarships Today – January 18, 2019
Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1. The Gordon A. Rich Memorial Foundation – $12,500 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More
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Understanding Why So Few Community College Transfer Students Graduate With Bachelor’s Degree
Transfering from a community college to a senior college often comes with a unique set of challenges. More than 30 percent of U.S. students begin their post-secondary studies at a community college, and while more than eight in 10 students intend to earn a bachelor’s degree, only 17 percent will have obtained one after six… Read More
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Four Common Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Chances in a Job Interview
If you make it to the job interview stage of an application process, the prospect of a new job is very much in sight. Make a good impression and you are likely to get the opportunity you want. But imagine you get to the interview and, despite being highly qualified and motivated, you end up… Read More
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Change Your Phone Settings so Apple, Google Can’t Track Your Movements
Technology companies have been pummeled by revelations about how poorly they protect their customers’ personal information, including an in-depth New York Times report detailing the ability of smartphone apps to track users’ locations. Some companies, most notably Apple, have begun promoting the fact that they sell products and services that safeguard consumer privacy. Smartphone users… Read More
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TUN Student Spotlight: Mercer Student Supports Ecuadorian Farmers Through Coffee
Twenty-three-year-old Shane Buerster had never drank a cup of coffee before starting Z Beans Coffee, a company based in Macon, Georgia, when he was a senior at Mercer University. His parents didn’t drink coffee, so it was never in his house growing up. But to Buerster, it never mattered what he sold. His mission was… Read More
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Featured Scholarships Today – January 16, 2019
Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1. The Christophers “You Can Make a Difference” Poster Contest – $1,000 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More
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Entrepreneurism 101 — Launch Your Startup on Campus!
Today’s college students – dubbed Generation Z – are beginning to make their mark on the workplace with a distinctly unconventional and often irreverent approach to problem-solving. In my day-to-day interactions with our students, I find that this group doesn’t only ask “Why?” they ask “How can I fix that?” And their curiosity, independence, energy… Read More
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The Key to Success for Minority and Women Ph.D. Students iIn STEM
Women and minorities, unfortunately, continue to be underrepresented in STEM fields. To understand the underlying factors leading to such disparities, a group of researchers from UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and the California Institute of Technology looked at how gender, race and ethnicity could impact a doctoral student’s success by measuring differences in publication rates between… Read More
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Why Elite Colleges Should Use a Lottery to Admit Students
If the Harvard admissions trial teaches us anything, it should be that there are more brilliant and accomplished young people in the United States eager for a top-notch education than there are seats to accommodate them. Places like Harvard and other elite colleges select students from a pool flush with well-qualified applicants who could handle… Read More
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More Solutions Needed for Campus Hunger
A new federal report does a good job of explaining what many researchers have been saying for a decade – food insecurity among college students is a serious national problem. As one University of California, Berkeley student revealed in an interview for a 2018 research article I helped write: “Food is always on my mind:… Read More
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8 Nashville Bands for College Music Fans to Keep an Eye on
Nashville may be known for country, but the Music City has so much to offer across all genres. For years, it was difficult for rock bands and rap artists to gain any traction in the city’s world-famous music scene, but that has begun to change thanks to an influx of talent from other parts of… Read More
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A Broke Student’s Travel Guide to Nashville
There’s never a dull moment in Music City, whether you’re getting rowdy in a Broadway honky tonk, chowing down on a sizzling piece of hot chicken, or taking in a show at the Grand Ole Opry. Always a top destination for the country music faithful, Nashville has developed a reputation in recent years for its… Read More
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ATI Alliance on Pace to Send 50,000 Low-income Students to College
A nationwide alliance of more than 100 leading colleges and universities has covered significant ground in opening up opportunities for low- to moderate-income students, according to a report by the American Talent Initiative (ATI). Since the 2015-16 school year, ATI members have sent 7,291 more students who receive Pell grants to the nation’s top colleges… Read More
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Featured Scholarships Today – January 14, 2019
Click on the titles to see details about each scholarship. 1. The Levin Firm Scholarship – $1,000 2. Broke College Student Scholarship – $5,888 3. Mainstream News Sucks Scholarship – $5,555 Read More
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Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Study STEM Than U.S.-Born Students
U.S. immigrant children are more likely than US.-born children to study and pursue careers in STEM fields, a new study by Duke University and Stanford finds. The researchers attribute these findings to the immigrant children’s comparative advantage in non-English-intensive subjects and comparative disadvantage in English-intensive subjects. “Most studies on the assimilation of immigrants focus on… Read More
