Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lets turn our attention to one of the important issues, and it is this. 20 Million Students and their families are in the middle of what has to be the strangest first semester of college in at least a century. Almost everything has changed for students except one thing, students still have to answer 108 questions on the dreaded fafsa form, federal aid application for pell grants and Student Loans to help go to college. For years now ive carried around the fafsa as a prop to make the case for simplifying it, but its no joke, especially this year. Many students are questioning their investment in a College Education at a time when many classes are only offering online courses, many of low income students who would benefit most economically from college long term are putting it off altogether. There was an 8 drop in the number of black undergraduate students enrolled in summer sessions compared with last summers enrollment according t
Better agricultural techniques throughout the state and throughout the world. And this is part of the food, fuel, and Water Initiative that i mentioned earlier. The scope of a Land Grant Institution has certainly increased. So in 1902 the Medical Center joined the system. So the activities have grown as Society Needs have increased, but we still focus on agriculture as one of the Core Missions at the university of nebraska, lincoln, and actually our agricultural programs showed the second highest increase in enrollment this year. Were talking with dr. James linder, the interim president , university of nebraska, lincoln, part of cspan bus Big Ten College tour. We kicked that off this week. Monthlong series of interviews here on the washington journal with University President s. On friday the bus will be at the university of iowa and we will talk with the president there, sally mason, on friday. This morning, though, dr. James linder aboard the cspan bus in lincoln, nebraska. Charles i
Starting in the fall, students who have earned associate degrees at community colleges across the country will now have the opportunity to attend Drexel University at half the cost.