Sun Microsystems Inc. began school-to-work programs early last year at Mission College in Santa Clara, Calif.

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By the time she graduated college, Yesh had one mission: to help build the most valuable company in India.

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Independent stylists for the growing jewelry and accessories brand, Sigler and Brinker are both confident, college-educated moms on a mission to figure out a way to meld work and home in a new way.

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The organization now has 40 campus chapters throughout the country and has rallied 150 plus college groups to get involved in its mission.

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Diversity of ideas at all levels of the college is crucial for our credibility and for our educational mission.

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But something tells me the college game is supposed to be part of the nonprofit educational mission.

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Still, it should serve as a reminder to all college presidents that sports, while a small part of the university mission as a whole, are a huge factor in shaping the public image of a school and dominate media attention.

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Kaplan's version of college has no dorms, no keg parties and, essential to the distance-learning mission, no boundaries.

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