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Oakland colleges helping students in difficult times
By Valerie West, The Oakland Press
Oakland, MI
As Michigan's unemployment and jobless
rates continue to climb, local colleges and
universities are offering ways to help ease
the strain of financial burdens and retool
workers' skills.
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Pets help college students with
stress
by Teri Webster, Pet Examiner
Newark, Ohio
Pets are good medicine for college students experiencing stress, according to a new study. That's not too surprising, since pets have long been known to comfort the elderly or the chronically ill, as well. But it may provide one more incentive for colleges to participate in a growing trend to allow students to have pets on campus.
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 At Wilkes, small in enrollment, large role in community stressed
Wilkes-Barre, PA
Wilkes University President Timothy Gilmour says his school is in a unique situation. Bearing half of the name of the city where it's situated, it has an inherent relationship with Wilkes-Barre and its resurgence.
"We're an institution generally on the move, yet we want to continue our strong ties to this community," Gilmour said. With a downtown campus occupying some of the city's stateliest mansions and prime properties, the school has expanded over the past decade. It has shifted from its founding in 1933 as a commuter-heavy college to one with a resident enrollment so high that some students have been rooming in downtown hotel rooms.
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In tough times, education is the right investmentCommentary by Dr. Gene Bernstein, Long Island Business News
Long Island, NY
Private colleges and universities throughout the state are every bit as deserving of the financial aid they receive from Albany as the public sector. Like the SUNY and CUNY schools, New York's independent institutions of higher learning are, and will continue to be, engines of economic growth in two vitally
important ways: First, they are providing employers with a well-educated, diverse work force, and second they are contributing to local economies at a time when most other industries are contracting.
From my perspective as a business executive on Long Island since 1982, staying the course on investments such as student aid will give us the best chance at economic recovery. Precisely because dollars are limited, now is the time to maintain support for those investments that return significant economic, human and social dividends.
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College Students and Alcohol Abuse Why?
by Ed Philips, Article Discovery
The answers are probably many, but the simplest answer is this: Because they can.
Abusing Alcohol is Easy. When there are so few immediate consequences for excessive drinking, when
repeat offenders are not disciplined, when parents are not notified about their children's drinking activities, when students get mixed messages from the college administration about alcohol, when students have seen their parents drinking alcohol in an irresponsible manner, when students are not informed about the long-tern negative consequences of alcohol abuse, when there are few alcohol-free social and recreational activities that are attractive to students, when minors or intoxicated students are served alcoholic beverages by the local drinking establishments, and when the drinking activities in
the sororities and fraternities are not monitored-drinking and excessive drinking become so very easy.
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