Overall, medical students graduated with an average of $141,132 in debt, though at the schools with the most heavily debt-laden students, graduates shouldered an average burden more than $50,000 higher. from US News and World Report At the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, 2[...]
Archive for August, 2011
August 5th, 2011 - 11:39 pm § in Misc.
from $150,000 to $210,000: The Ten Medical Schools Loading the Biggest Debt on Their Grads:
August 5th, 2011 - 10:39 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: The Market
When will the media say the obvious? The market is a game built on confidence. When the tea party created a war between themselves and the economists and bankers, what other outcome could happen?[...]
August 5th, 2011 - 8:03 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Gaddafi Countdown
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s Gaddafi regime is disputing claims (see video) that Moammar Gadhafi’s youngest son, who commands one of the regime’s strongest military brigades, was killed in a NATO airstrike in the western town of Zlitan. The death of the 27-year-old Khamis Gadda[...]
August 5th, 2011 - 12:17 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Fareed Zakaria Compares Tea Party to Terrorists, ‘Un-American’
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz1U8VlN4fG The truth hurts. Der Spiegel in Germany says the same thing in even stronger terms: This week, the United States nearly allowed itself to succumb to economic disaster. Increasingly, the divided country has more in common with a failed state than a d[...]
August 4th, 2011 - 12:57 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Counter Revolution in Ohio
SB 5 foes get ‘no’ they wanted on ballot issue Issue 2 to ask voters if new state collective-bargaining law should be OK’d Wednesday, August 3, 2011 05:37 PM Voting “no” on state Issue 2 in November will be a vote to kill Ohio’s new collective-bargaining law, the Ohio Ballot Board has de[...]
August 3rd, 2011 - 2:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges
As School Starts: How to Pay for Tuition
from the Huff Post The cost of a college education is rising, but the wages that pay for them aren’t. Over the last 20 years, while pay for the average American worker stagnated, college tuitions have risen drastically, according to an article by CNN Money. In fact, the average cost of tuition[...]
August 3rd, 2011 - 2:11 pm § in Misc.
WGU Grows In Rick Perry’s Texas!
Western Governors University Gets a New Spinoff, in Texas August 3, 2011, 3:06 pm By Jeff Young Gov. Rick Perry of Texas signed an order today creating a new online university affiliated with Western Governors University, to be called WGU Texas. The move is the third state spinoff of Western Governo[...]
August 3rd, 2011 - 11:18 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: The Fruits of Tea Party Terrorism
Layoffs Surge As Recovery Shows Little Sign Of Momentum[...]
August 3rd, 2011 - 10:59 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Phyllis Wise Leaving The UW!
New UI chancellor named Wed, 08/03/2011 – 12:24pm | Paul Wood UPDATED 12:20 p.m. The Urbana campus has a permanent chancellor for the first time in almost two years. Her name is Phyllis Wise; for the first time, all three University of Illinois chancellors are women. Her new job is effective[...]