going to burst soon.  By 2009 the last of the late 1980’s to early 1990’s born kids called the baby boomletters will be going off to college. The expected drop in college population  nation wide is expected to be around 4% with the biggest drop occuring in the Northeast.

Will now force students to pay early for the classes that you want to take or get dropped from them. Students with financial aid packagaes that will come in september will be safe.

I say with an August 10th deadline the idea if they still want to keep it needs to really be put in palce for the Spring 2007 semester.  To me around 10 days is too short of a warning period.

called the Ohio Tuition Trust Authority is in trouble and may have to have a bailout in order for the program to survive.

The program allows parents to buy credits to help pay for college. A full of tuition can be had for 100 credits and one credit costs 95 bucks today.

on states and what they do to allow students take college level classes while being a high school student.

They spend one whole chapter on the state of Florida.  The findings they show is that students with the advance classes graduated faster with associate and Bachlors than students without advance classes, but lots of students with advance classes still needed more than 2 years to get the associates degree.

The report also gives out some reccomendations on what states should do to have more students take college level classes while in high school.

The Pioneer Press reports on colleges in the rural parts of Minnesota like the University of Minnesota Crookston that will allow students to research work even though they are not at the graduate level in order to keep students at that college.

This is a new school in the Chicago area that caters to students who want to earn college credits while going to high school.  They can earn a semesters worth of college credits for only 10 bucks.  It will only accept seniors, but none of them will be turned away