Monthly Archives: September 2008

The University of Great Falls

The University of Great Falls is located in Great Falls,Montana.

A private, Catholic university open to qualified men and women of every race and creed, the University of Great Falls is fully accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. As an expression of the teaching mission of Jesus Christ, the mission of the University of Great Falls is to provide students with the opportunity to obtain a liberal education for living and making a living. The College of Great Falls was founded in 1932 by the Bishop of the Diocese, the Sisters of Providence and the Ursuline Nuns. CGF was elevated to university status in 1995. The University is located in Great Falls, Montana, a city of about 55,000 in North Central Montana. The student body consists of approximately 1,090 undergraduate students and 174 graduate students. In addition to its campus offerings, UGF serves 31 sites in Montana, Southern Alberta and Wyoming through its Telecom Distance Learning Program.

Eastern Washington University

Eastern Washington University is a regional, comprehensive public university located in Cheney, Washington, with programs also offered in Bellevue, Everett, Kent, Seattle, Shoreline, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver and Yakima.

A regional university with campuses located throughout Eastern Washington gives students numerous opportunities and options to live in. Spokane and Vancouver both are amazing cities to live in with a lot of creative focus.

Art Institute of Colorado

The Art Institute of Colorado is Colorado foremost school of art. It is apart of The Art Institutes, a school with over 40 institutions across the country.

Denver is a great place to live, and has a rich culture history as well an amazing nightlife. Denvers art scene is pretty rich, its writting scene is even richer. This school is pretty amazing with a broad reflection of society.

Located centrally in Downtown Denver lots of affordable ways to access it, and live in a culturally rich area of town as well.

University of Minnesota

When I think about Minnesota I think about fishing and good microbrews. Mostly fishing. I suppose however there are some great schools in Minnesota. Lets start with The Gophers. Minnesota is a great place to live and a better place to go to school and potentially raise a family.

Home to Target, and some great sports teams. Minnesota is a great place to call home and begin your path to a better education.

The University of Minnesota is one of the most comprehensive public universities in the United States and ranks among the most prestigious. It is both the state land-grant university, with a strong tradition of education and public service, and the state’s primary research university, with faculty of national and international reputation.

Women Outnumber Men At School but still struggle

It is fairly well known that women today outnumber men in American colleges. In 2003, there were 1.35 females for every male who graduated from a four-year college and 1.3 females for every male undergraduate. That contrasts with 1960, when there were 1.6 males for every female graduating from a U.S. four-year college and 1.55 males for every female undergraduate. How come this switch?

In The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap (NBER Working Paper No. 12139), authors Claudia Goldin, Lawrence Katz, and Ilyana Kuziemko offer some explanations for the change. In the post-World War II era, they note, the financial return to women of higher education greatly increased. At first, from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, women tended to pursue female-intensive occupations such as teaching and social work after graduation. So, they majored in education, English, and literature, perhaps, and they often aimed at finding suitable mates in college.

Should You LiveBlog A Class Discussion?

This is an offtopic post i stumbled upon the subject from a techblog I regularly read.

It’s quite common these days for people to “live blog” or “live Twitter” different conferences or events they’re attending, filling in others what’s happening in near real time. However, what happens when someone does that in a college class? Already, there are some professors struggling with the fact that students use the internet during class, but they’re not at all happy about the idea that they might not just be using the internet to surf around — but to report to others what’s happening inside the classroom. The issue is discussed in detail by Mark Glaser in his latest MediaShift column after an NYU professor told her students to stop blogging or Twittering things about her class.

Personally I am in favor of liveblogging class discussions to bring a collective discussion offline to what the professor has to say. If teachers aren´t into this i would say lets find some new professors.

Indiana University

Indiana University is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. It is also known as “Indiana University Bloomington,” “Indiana,” or simply IU, and is located in Bloomington, Indiana.

Indiana University is internationally known for the quality of its academic programs and attracts students from all over the world. At the same time, IU plays a key role in the economic and social well-being of Indiana residents, offering educational, cultural, and financial benefits to the state.

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. NYU’s main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan.

The center of NYU is its Washington Square campus in the heart of Greenwich Village. One of the city’s most creative and energetic communities, the Village is a historic neighborhood that has attracted generations of writers, musicians, artists, and intellectuals. Beyond the Village, New York City becomes an extension of the University’s campus.

What is really amazing about Greenwich Village is that is an uber creative heart of New York. So going to school here will put you in the heart of lots of creatives and other folks who will only encourage you to pursue the creative avenues in your life.

Howard University

Howard University is located in Washington DC. A historically black university, the college currently ranks 96th among national universities in the U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2008″ rankings.

While traditionally a black university it is one of the best educational institutions in the DC Metro Area.

The DC Metro Area is a great location for any school but especially Howard. It offers a great nightlife a wonderful historic setting and lots of museums and other research facilities to back up your educational experience.

UCLA

UCLA aka The University of California at Los Angeles is one of Californias oldest state supported schools. UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college) as well as undergraduate colleges Arts and Architecture, Herb Alpert School of Music, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science‎, Nursing, and Theater, Film, and Television, seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students annually, and that number is steadily rising.

UCLA is continually ranked amongst the best colleges in the Country. It is located in Los Angeles so it obviously has one of the best nightlife scenes of competing colleges around the country.

UCLA has a storied sports history with many legendary athletes attending the school including Troy Aikman,Kareem Abdul Jabaar, just too name a few legends.

UCLA has an amazing campus that is seriously amongst my favorite college campus I have ever visited.

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