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BONK College Game Show Bookings are Rolling - SPECIAL PACKAGE OFFERED FOR FALL CAMPUS EVENTS

That's right! The calls for the college and campus game show just keep coming.  The BONK Show will be making it's appearance at freshman orientation events, campus activity and fall sibling and parent events around the country. ...READ»

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University Blogging

On April 16 the Boston Globe reported that college admissions offices have begun to use student-written blogs as a medium to entice potential applicants. These blogs are not what you might think. They do not necessarily come off ...READ»

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Leaders Include Variety in Ideas and People

Real leaders seek to avoid groupthink, a common trap that reduces innovation and good decision making because group members agree with each other, no matter what.READ»

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Helicopter Parents on the College Campus: Strategies to Help Ease Transition Pains

I was speaking with a College Admissions Director last week. He was telling me story after story about the flood of calls from parents about everything from roommate disputes to asking for vacation time off to wanting the telephone ...READ»

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Norway's Incredibly Luxurious Halden Prison: $1 Million of Art and Flat-Screen TVs in Every Cell

A lesson for all the budding criminals out there: if you're going to commit a crime, do it in Norway, because the country is soon to open Halden Prison, possibly the world's most ridiculously posh prison. When it opens on April 1, ...READ»

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Google Plans Adorable, Green, and (Most Importantly) Free Google Voice Phone Booths

One of the more charming parts of today's Google Voice phone calling announcement is the unveiling of a few promotional, British-style phone booths. The twist: They're totally free.READ»

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Set for Life

This Wednesday became Day One in ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling's 24-year sentence for securities fraud, insider trading, and making false claims to auditors. According to prison officials, Skilling, 53, entered the Federal ...READ»

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No Campus and No Campus Life – Keiser University Focuses on Learning

Yesterday I started my overview of Keiser University, the leading post-secondary university in Florida. As I mentioned, Keiser was founded by a mother-and-son team that saw a need in adult education. Their brain child, Keiser ...READ»

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z-Fab: A Massive Net-Zero Modular Green Home Factory

When we last caught up with ZETA (Zero Energy Technology and Architecture) Communities, the prefab green building startup was putting the final touches on a net-zero modular demonstration home in Oakland, California. Now the home is ...READ»

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Wal-Marty... Krofft?

The big-box behemoth many people love to hate is stepping into the worlds of children... and television. Sponsoring a forthcoming reality TV show on ABC, "The Scholar," Wal-Mart will back college scholarships for the runner-up high ...READ»

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Freeman Hrabowski - Fast 50 2002

19. Defeat StereotypesREAD»

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Toy Story 3

We all have to grow up sometime, and that's exactly what's happened to Andy -- the "real boy" owner of Woody and Buzz Lightyear -- who, 15 years after the franchise's first installment, is heading to college. The two earlier films ...READ»

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Careers: Personal Branding and Teens

Like the eternal chicken and egg question, what comes first, the personal brand or the product? I recently read about two teens with no prior connections or money who are blogging and "webbing" their way to fame -- and in one case ...READ»

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" One Double Cap, Decaf, Wi-Fi, Skim. To Stay."

What do you get when you cross the nation's fastest-growing coffee-shop franchise with one of the most aggressive wireless-network providers? The future of wireless computing -- and a good cup of coffee. Last August, Starbucks teamed ...READ»