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Is there a student-loan crisis?
This month, college-admission letters are being accompanied by national anxiety over the growing ?student-debt crisis.? The cost of college has spiked 150 percent since 1995, compared with a 50 percent increase in the cost of other goods and services. Last year, outstanding student loans soared to nearly $1 trillion?a 300 percent jump since 2003. College is an undeniably risky investment, seemingly more so than ever. But are rising debt levels a national crisis? The Atlantic
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Cfp: Reference Services Review Special Issue On The Role Of The Library In Campus-wide Retention Efforts (new Deadline - 12/3/2012)
CFP: Reference Services Review Special Issue on the role of the library in campus-wide retention efforts (new deadline - 12/3/2012) Reference Services Review (RSR) is seeking authors to write on the theme of the role of the library in campus-wide...
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Cfp: Reference Services Review Special Issue On The Role Of The Library In Campus-wide Retention Efforts
CFP: Reference Services Review Special Issue on the role of the library in campus-wide retention efforts Reference Services Review (RSR) is seeking authors to write on the theme of the role of the library in campus-wide retention efforts ? Volume 41...
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Cfp: 29th Annual Conference On The First-year Experience
CFP: 29th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition 29th Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience session proposal submissions accepted through Oct. 19 February...
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College Prep Basics: How To Pay For It
Now that we have entered the season of college acceptance letters, we want you to know that we also have resources to help with what comes next... paying for it. If you plan to fill out financial aid forms, scholarship applications or even student...
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Discoveries In The Stacks: College And Career
Discoveries in the Stacks is the Westover Branch Library's occasional exploration of our collection, delving into areas that you may not have visited. This week we highlight the College and Career section found in a separate part of the non-fiction...
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