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21 hours ago ago from » College Spot Blog: Student News, College Finance and College Life
College Spot - November 18th, 2009 | No Comments | print Transitioning from the combat zone to college, returning soldiers are being welcomed by a new military GI Bill that should serve as a financial crutch to ease the stresses of the switch to college. The Post-9/11 GI Bill, which went into effect in August 2009, provides financial support for tuition and provides housing to veterans. The new GI Bill is only available to ...
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5 hours ago ago from Umbceats's Blog
I’m thrilled to see all of the feedback I’ve been getting about vegetarian/vegan issues on the UMBC campus. While my main point was to explain the options that are currently available to new students that might not be so sure about how things work here, I completely recognize the need for improvement on this campus. With such a diverse school, there is an array of dietary issues that our school must address, whether for religious, moral, or ...
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14 hours ago ago from South Texas College News
Marcie De La Cruz. Marcie De La Cruz, a South Texas College sociology instructor, has been awarded a grant to participate in a project with the Texas Consortium Geriatric Education Center (TCGEC) of the Baylor College of Medicine. The project, which has been in existence since 1985, promotes the training of health professionals, including college faculty, students, and practitioners, in geriatric issues. “This is an exciting ...
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17 hours ago ago from Realtyaxis
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: For campus recruitment at the premier engineering institutes, the IITs, the news is getting better by the day. By the end of seventh day across seven campuses, on an average 200 students were placed, an increase of around 100 per cent compared to same time last year. If IIT-Bombay has placed 250 students(that’s one-and-half times more than last year), IIT-Kanpur has placed 200 students in 30 companies, ...
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1 hour, 9 minutes ago ago from Orange County Independent Task Force on Anti-Semitism
Dec. 8, 2009 JTA , THE JERUSALEM POST A US congressman is the latest to call for a Justice Department investigation into whether a pro-Palestinian group has been raising money on college campuses for Hamas. In a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) urged a probe into Viva Palestina USA, a humanitarian aid convoy led by British lawmaker George Galloway that brought medical supplies to Gaza last ...
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'Upset student' opens fire in class; no injuries
19 hours ago ago from FanHouse
WOODBRIDGE, Va. -Authorities say a 20-year-old student is in custody after pointing a rifle at a teacher and firing shots in a classroom at a community college in Virginia. No injuries are reported. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon at Northern Virginia Community College's campus in Woodbridge, about 25 miles south of Washington, D.C. Twenty-year-old Jason Michael Hamilton of Manassas is charged with attempted murder and discharging a ...
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3 hours ago ago from The New York Times
WOODBRIDGE, Va. A community college student who opened fire on his math professor in a crowded classroom Tuesday was arraigned Wednesday on charges of attempted murder and discharging a firearm in a school zone. No one was injured in the shooting, which took place at one of the campuses of the state's largest university system, but it rattled a region where memories linger of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting shootings in which 32 people were ...
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