Transferring Offers Path Into Selective Colleges

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BCCSP, Bucknell, Community Colleges, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

New doors open for community college students as economy swells their ranks.

By Marion Callahan

OF THE MORNING CALL

August 30, 2009

Amanda Baranowski had her heart set on Lehigh University. But the Nazareth Area High School graduate, who ranked 17th in her class, planned one stop before heading there — community college.

”It was financially appealing, close to home and easy to commute,” said Baranowski, 22, who graduated with honors from Lehigh in May and is now employed as a researcher at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Baranowski is part of a growing number of high-achieving students who are opting for community college before moving on to four-year universities.

Responding to the soaring enrollment at community colleges, some public and private colleges are beefing up recruitment efforts, or in some cases, opening doors that were once considered shut to those going the community college route.

Literature Review: Internationalization of the College Campus

Record numbers of international students are enrolling in colleges and universities in the United States. Internationalization of the college campus has gone from being a phenomenon driven by the desire of foreigners to study, work, and eventually settle in the United States to being driven by a conscious effort by college administrators to increase diversity on campuses in order to produce students who are better prepared to excel in today’s connected world. (Ping, 1999) This has introduced new challenges to the field of student affairs. Student affairs professionals are not only busy finding ways to attract and retain more international students, but  to make the learning experience most rewarding for them, as well as making the most of their presence on campus to enhance the learning experiences of their hosts.

Book Analysis: “Moving on up: South Asian women and higher education by Yasmin Hussain and Paul Bagguley”

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book analysis, Higher Education, review, south asia, women

BOOK ANALYSIS: “Moving on up: South Asian women and higher education by Yasmin Hussain and Paul Bagguley”

Analysis by Nadir Sharif

Organizing for Success: Organization Theory and the Stage-Gate Innovation Process

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Organization Theory, Product Development, Robert Cooper, Stage-Gate Process

In today’s globalized world where information flows freer than ever before, the current generation of consumers is more discerning than any other generation in the past. There are more competitors in any given industry. Companies that fail to innovate, or fail to innovate at a fast enough pace face the threat of going out of business. However, it is not just enough to be innovative; almost half of the resources that are used for the research, development, and launch of new products go to products that never make it.

A New Beginning

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Nadir Sharif, nadirs.com, Personal

Over the last six years I have come to own and then dis-own many .com and a couple .org websites. I have never before tried to unify my online existence. However, as I continue to work on my higher education, I have a feeling that somewhere down the line I might just regret the fact that I have not kept track of my contributions to the World Wide Web. The primary purpose of this website is to create a central location where those who wish to find out more about me, or my work can easily do so with a few clicks and keystrokes.

If you are such an adventurer and have any questions, concerns, or suggestions – please feel free, just add a comment to this (or any other) post and I will try my best to address your concerns. I hope you have a good time on this website, and on any others that this one links you to