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  • A Well Kept Secret: Educational Cost per Graduate

    When recommending colleges to students, we would do well to consider the community college as an excellent choice. Having taught my first semester at community college this year, I have been struck with a singular impression of the faculty: they are very dedicated and talented teachers. Though the level of commitment may vary between instructors…

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  • Art School Confidential: Loyola Marymount University and Portfolio Review

    At schools like LMU- medium size, private, comprehensive universities, the role of the portfolio in admission to art or other “creative” majors, is somewhat variable. We are not a conservatory, and our students will need to demonstrate the accomplishment and the background necessary to succeed in a broad based, traditional liberal arts education, and to…

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  • The Scientific Method: Hypothesis

    Hypothesis.  It’s a very serious-sounding, science-y word.  It evokes images of white coats, beakers, and lab mice. But it’s a powerful word, too.  Science students get what it means.  They know that a hypothesis is a huge step in the scientific method—the point in any scientific inquiry where you make your “educated guess” at why…

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  • WACACast: Standardized Testing, a Lifetime Movie Pitch and a Gone Girl Spoiler

    To listen to the WACACast, click here! Grant and Sam discuss the pros and cons of standardized testing and the different ways colleges and universities do or don’t use them.  Sam pitches a Lifetime movie and toward the end there is a (small) Gone Girl spoiler.  Grant also references a bear onesie that he wears…

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  • NACAC San Diego 2015: The Special Events Committee

    Well, the Local Advisory Committee met earlier this month, and we are working hard to make San Diego the best NACAC conference yet! The Special Events Committee, one of the six Advisory Committees, gets to do the fun stuff for the conference. We are known as the party people as we plan and run the…

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  • ‘Tis the Season

    In my office things typically quiet down after midnight on November 30th when the submit button is pushed on UC, CSU, EA, and ED applications. This is one of the reasons I love December- after the frantic last minute questions are answered, the final essay edits are made, and the procrastinators push submit, there is…

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  • Hello Nevada! — Events

    The next few posts will be devoted to coming events. First is the Nevada School Counselor Association state conference.    NVSCA is a small but vibrant association that is dedicated to supporting school counselors in Nevada .   The annual conference will be held in Reno at the Atlantis Hotel, February 6th – 8th .   If you…

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  • DEA Inclusion

    In the blink of an eye, recruitment 2014 has passed us by. On the college side, we’ve finally unpacked our suitcases, made our apartments livable again, and are trying to lose those extra lbs that seem to always make it back with us after travel.  Most of us have already jumped right in and started…

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