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Community colleges changing course as students, needs shift
Around the country, community colleges are trying to adapt to increasing demand from young students and, in some cases, are beginning to resemble university campuses.
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It's been a year of major change in the world of financial aid.
Strategies for building college savings (PDF)
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Junior-year journal
Junior year is known as the most crazy-busy-stressful of high school for college-bound students. Last fall we asked writer Suzanne Monson and her daughter Kelsey, then a junior at Shorecrest High, to each keep a journal of the rollercoaster year.
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