Articles Tagged With online college

Frat Fatalities: Pledges of Death

May 14th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof

Frat DudesAt universities and colleges across the country, each fall season brings a fresh crop of bright-eyed freshmen hoping to pledge their way into fraternities. Getting into the Greek spirit can be fun, but at what cost? Plenty of these rites of passages (perhaps more appropriately called wrongs of passage), have landed these guys in hospitals and worse. Here is the breakdown of the most horrifying frat fatalities and injuries:

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Online Education Helps Families

May 4th, 2009 by Kate Lehnhof

istock_000007960038xsmall2Every parent wants the very best for their children, but single parents are often faced with trying to accomplish that huge task with half the resources.

A recent study by the US Census Bureau reported that 79% of all single mothers work and 23.4% of all single-parent families are living below the poverty level. The discouraging connection between those two statistics is that the majority of parents who are working full or part-time are the same parents who are living below the poverty level.

Online college classes offer solutions, no matter what your family situation may be.

More and more single parents are attending colleges these days. In the last ten years the number of single parents enrolled in college classes has increased from 7% to 13% percent. As more single parents earn their college degrees, they make more money in their current jobs or find higher-paying positions. When you are equipped with sophisticated skills and extensive educational training, suddenly opportunities that seemed out of reach before are suddenly at your fingertips.

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