| HCC Collaboration Opens Doors for Non-Traditional Students
Alan Jefferson, vice president of Wachovia Small Business Capital in Baltimore, has a new title: first guinea pig. Jefferson will be the first student to work toward a bachelor's degree through a new collaboration announced in September by Howard Community College (HCC) and Albany, N.Y.-based Excelsior College.
The collaboration will enable local students to earn bachelor's degrees in business, technology, liberal arts, nursing and health sciences. Through the agreement, students can transfer up to 90 credits (or three years of a four-year degree) to Excelsior, where they can complete the remaining 30 credits required for a bachelor's through Excelsior's online courses and for-credit examinations.
Jefferson joked about his earliest forays into college. "I've never hidden the fact that, when I did my first turn at the University of Maryland College Park, I was on the dean's list three times - but it was the wrong list," he said, with a laugh.
Parents, learn useful tips for evaluating online colleges, and ...
Regardless of what some websites or online colleges ask you to believe, accreditation is very important because it ensures that an institution meets or exceeds an established set of educational standards. As a result, courses from an accredited online college are most likely to be transferable to other colleges and universities, and degrees from an accredited college are far more likely to be valued by both your current employer and prospective employers considering you for a position. Beware of accreditation claims. Many questionable "accrediting agencies" exist. Some are outright frauds, offering "accreditation" to any institution willing to pay a fee. In fact, operators of some well known degree mills have also run these so-called accrediting agencies. State licensure, by the way, generally means little more than a minimal investment in assets and/or registration as a business entity.
Science of surveying has margin of error
Smith's New Hampshire poll for CNN predicted a Barack Obama victory by 9 points. He lost by about 3 points. Still, demand grows for polls in a country where the citizenry is obsessed with who's No. 1. Presidential polls have been around since the Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper published the first one in 1824. Primary polls, despite their hazards, became a fixture of the political scene in the 1970s, when convention delegates were no longer appointed by party bosses but chosen by voters. "By the '90s everybody was trying to make a name and win recognition, because you get a lot of publicity," said pollster and historian David Moore. At the birth of the industry, there were just two public pollsters. Now there are nearly 40, according to Pollster.com, plus a thriving network of campaign pollsters.
Fix for schools includes leader
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Willy Northpole and the Phoenix hip-hop scene explode
Under the bright club lights at The Door on Scottsdale Road, Willy Northpole is shining like a gold star. The Phoenix-born-and-bred rapper is wearing a shimmering designer shirt that hugs his bulging biceps, and several thick gold chains hang from his neck. The diamond studs in his earlobes flash when he turns his head. He's got a beautiful woman with him; she's wearing a classic little black dress and being very quiet. .
The best books of 2007
Janet Malcolm's book packs heavyweight punches about truth versus fiction, in the guise of a chic stocking-filler. POLITICS & RELIGIONCompiled by David Honigmann Comrades: A World History of CommunismBy Robert ServiceMacmillan £25, 624 pagesFT bookshop price: £20 Robert Service, a historian of Soviet communism, widens his discussion to take in the rest of the world. His general judiciousness, noting that the poverty and injustice that fuel communism remain ever present, makes his condemnation all the more weighty. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad PoliciesBy Bryan CaplanPrinceton University Press £17.95 280 pagesFT bookshop price: £14.36 Far from favouring constituents, argues Caplan, democracies tend to adopt policies that harm most of their voters.
The Facts Of Life
If that money earns an 8.5% net annual return, you'll build up $97,362 in that account after 20 years. But say you bought a $250,000 20-year term policy instead. That would cost you $225 annually from Federal Kemper Life, giving you an additional $2,275 a year to invest as you saw fit. If you earned the same 8.5% return, you'd rack up $121,687 beating that permanent-life account by 25%. So why do agents push permanent life so hard? Simple: Higher premiums mean higher commissions. That said, permanent life can make sense for select groups of people. Peter Katt, a life-insurance adviser in Mattawan, Mich., recommends it as a savings vehicle for people who consistently have income left over after maxing out their other tax-deferred accounts. But Katt urges even those clients to cover their baseline insurance needs the money to protect their families with cheaper term life.
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Well, well, very interesting reading all the comments. I am one of the lucky ones who was put on an UL flight to Melbourne in 1993 by off loading a poor passenger. I can tell you that I was not proud of it but, shows how things were done in those days. I am glad to hear that the person in charge who declined the president stood up for the fare paying passengers. Unfortunately he may have lost his job but he can feel proud of what he did. UL is doing well at the moment, hope the government of SL wont stuff things up. .
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