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Quick way to capture a 529 tax break when a student is in college
An easy way for you to cut your college costs can be as easy as depositing money into a 529 […]
December 2, 2021
How grandparents can help with college costs without hurting financial aid chances
Upcoming changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will make it easier for grandparents, aunts and uncles, […]
November 24, 2021
Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards: A Texas Professor Focused on Artificial Intelligence, Health, and Education: FREE 11th Annual Texas Social Media Conference
Yes! I am excited! We are getting back into the training and development mode with the Texas Social Media Research […]
November 8, 2021
Engaging Online Students Though a Zoom-Based Journal Club Experience
This year has been an exceptional year for teaching. We are just transitioning out of a COVID19 time period and […]
October 29, 2021
Three Examples of Interactive Syllabi (Designed with Open Educational Resources from a University Library)
Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the Open Education Conference. It was virtual and the content was […]
October 28, 2021
Some thoughts on fairness and student loans
With the Comprehensive Spending Review due next Wednesday, I thought it might be worth making some general points about student […]
October 22, 2021
Applying early decision and early action, part II
In my last college blog post, I wrote about the pros and cons of applying to college early decision. Here […]
October 19, 2021
The misleadingly named Student Loans Company
Why that title? Well, the name seems to mislead people into thinking that the provider of student finance is a […]
October 15, 2021
What the Archives of Actual Classrooms Tell about the History of Teaching | A Conversation with Rachel Buurma and Laura Heffernan
In The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study Dr. Rachel Sagner Buurma, Associate Professor of English at Swarthmore […]
October 14, 2021