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10 Reasons to Go to a Research University
Tweet Share on Facebook April 28, 2010 Comment (14)May 1 is a new holiday on the college calendar: National Candidate Reply Date, also referred to by many as Decision Day. That's the day by which more than 2 million students must decide where to go to college and tell the school of their choice. Some students will be choosing between a college that focuses on teaching and a university that emphasizes research. And many will think that a teaching college would always be the obvious best choice. After all, you're going there to learn, so why wouldn't you go to a college that emphasizes teaching? But there are some real advantages to the research university that might be worth your while to consider. Here are 10:
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15 Ways to Boost Your Confidence at College
Tweet Share on Facebook April 21, 2010 Comment (23)It's easy to feel a lack of confidence at college. Lectures with hundreds of students can make one feel no bigger than a worm. And even smaller classes can make you feel low when it seems like the student in the front row has all the answers. Luckily, like every other skill, confidence can be learned and increased over time—especially if you follow our 15 practical tips:
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10 Best iPad Apps for College Students
Tweet Share on Facebook April 14, 2010 Comment (21)The iPad is hot: 400,000, 500,000, maybe even 600,000 sold—and that's just in the first week. Many college students will be hopping onto the bandwagon, and so we asked our friend Ryan Wood, a graduate of the University of Findlay in Ohio, and now working at 148Apps.com, for his top 10 picks for college students. (Reviews of the apps listed below are available at 148Apps.com.)
Here are the winners:
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What a Department Chair Can—and Can't—Do
Tweet Share on Facebook April 7, 2010 Comment (4)Every department at a college has one: a chair who, typically, is a faculty member in that department, assigned by the dean to manage the department. The department chair usually has the plush corner office in the new Albert E. Hoofalos Center for Academic Excellence, or at least the 8-by-10 office in the pre-World War II hovel that doubles as the economics department. Regardless of the physical surroundings, most students have absolutely no idea what this person does—and doesn't do. And it's no wonder. In the complex university structure, even the chairs themselves often don't know exactly what their powers and responsibilities include.
Nevertheless, it behooves students to know more about the role of the chair, because sometimes the chair can be a lifesaver. Here's a firsthand look at what chairs can, and cannot, do to solve student problems—from Lynn, herself a chair for the last seven years:
