So whether it's at a four-year college, or a community college, or a technical program, some form of higher education, something beyond high school has never been more important.
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They indicate the minimum score on each of the four subject tests for a student who has a 75% chance of earning a grade of C or higher or a 50% chance of earning a B or higher in a typical first-year college course.
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We also have a similar system in tertiary or higher (or even college) education.
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"I think some people who are in mathematics, teaching mathematics in college or are in mathematics professions have a much higher expectation of what those standards would be than someone who is going to go into college in another field ... law, social sciences and so forth, " Wilhoit said in an interview Monday.
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Higher education, whether it's a four-year college or two years at a community college, is the clearest path we've got to the middle class.
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Also troubling was another report that found for-profit college students defaulted on their loans at a far higher rate than students at public or non-profit colleges.
Moreover, there are a far higher percentage of college basketball players who leave to the professional game after one or two years.
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In the report, across all institution types, at least six in ten college presidents agreed or strongly agreed that three initiatives have great potential for making an impact on higher education.
In fact, during times of economic weakness, colleges may actually see higher enrollments as people who may not have otherwise attended college elect to leave or defer entering the job market in order to pursue a degree and become more marketable job candidates.
If you've got some college or an associate's degree, less than a bachelor's degree, it's higher but it's lower than at national average, 7.72 percent.
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With unemployment rates and salary levels correlating almost perfectly to education levels, the true challenge facing higher education, whether online or on campus, is helping students to successfully complete college degree programs.
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You've got to tell the college student, we're going to have to charge you higher interest rates on your student loan or you're just going to get smaller student loans.
According to an International Data Corp. study, the number of college students taking distance learning courses will triple to 2.2 million by 2002, or 15 percent of all higher education students.
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Ten miles from there, Oberlin College, one of the great private institutions of higher learning in this country -- at Oberlin College, there was a building built there seven or eight years ago, fully powered by solar panels.
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