Awards will be given out for nine high school categories and five Glendale Community College categories.
During this information-gathering, brainstorm what the most important college categories are to you (location, class size, learning environment).
To facilitate this process, I created eight college categories (the Magic 8), which I developed based on my 25 years of experience analyzing college award letters.
9The fact that so many workers in the "some college" category have not completed a credential of any kind no doubt biases this estimated return downwards as a measure of returns to postsecondary credentials.
In the university category, Cal Poly Pomona won both the honors; in the community college category, Rio Hondo was the winner and East Los Angeles Community College won honorable mention; in the high school category, Alta Loma High School won both awards.
And while it may be challenge for community college students to serve far from home, Miami-Dade College Changemaker Corps, wonch won the prize for the community college category as well as the audience choice award, for a total of $40,000, helps to solve a problem that may plagues many colleges: student retention.
Tobacco use was set as the dependent variable; predictor variables included college category, age of the student, the student's khat use status, friends' smoking status, friends' khat use status, family members who smoke, and friends who use any type of substances.
According to the National Retail Federation, an industry trade group, the fastest-growing back-to-college categories include ones that play to the strengths of online retailers, like consumer electronics, computers and even furniture, which is starting to gain momentum with online consumers.
It was difficult to sort into the "seminar during teaching semester" and "formal college course" categories, because it was unknown how Rushin and colleagues would categorize PD during lab preparation meetings (which was a fairly common form of PD on our survey).
For the regression models, we used age category 45-64 years and the college education category as our reference groups because they included the majority of the sample population.
In order to compile their top 25 lists (evaluating colleges in categories of size, location, gay friendliness, jock friendliness and more) Newsweek drew on data from College Prowler, school statistics (like acceptance rates and credentials of incoming freshmen) and specialized reports.
