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  • Guide: 12 Ways Grown-up, Non-students Can Go ‘Back-to-school’
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    Guide: 12 Ways Grown-up, Non-students Can Go ‘Back-to-school’

     

    The Fisher Fine Arts Library, Arthur Ross Gallery, Science/Lightbulb café series, Kelly Writers House and Institute of Contemporary Art are suggested as locations and events adults can get into the back-to-school spirit.

    Sep 11, 2015

    For Students With a Mission, a Little Capital Goes a Long Way
    The New York Times

    For Students With a Mission, a Little Capital Goes a Long Way

     

    Student Derrius Quarles of the Graduate School of Education is highlighted as a co-founder of an online college financial aid platform called Million-Dollar Scholar.

    Sep 11, 2015

    If You Build It, They Will Come…Won’t They?
    The New York Times

    If You Build It, They Will Come…Won’t They?

     

    When you think of a classic American college campus, you probably envision a set of pastoral images: a demure brick rowhouse crowned with a white steeple, a gargoyle perched on a limestone archway, a domed library on a sunlit grass quadrangle. Often far from cities or shielded from them by gates and walls, campuses exude a sense of refuge. Thomas Jefferson famously wanted the University of Virginia to resemble a kind of ‘‘academical village.’’

    Sep 10, 2015

    New Data Gives Clearer Picture of Student Debt
    The New York Times

    New Data Gives Clearer Picture of Student Debt

     

    An air of mystery has long surrounded student debt. We know the total number of borrowers and their combined debt — 40 million people owe $1.2 trillion — but beyond these headline numbers, the data has been frustratingly thin. Who borrows? Who defaults? Why are so many borrowers in distress? The answers have been unclear, leaving analysts and policy makers to prescribe remedies without an accurate diagnosis of the disease. But now the picture has become significantly sharper.

    Sep 10, 2015