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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

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Danilo Moreta, a Cornell University graduate student studying corn breeding, stood wearing jeans and a black button-down shirt as undergraduate students entered room 336 in the Plant Science Building for a Tuesday night section of PLSCI 4300, Applications in Molecular Diagnostics. Photo: Jon Reis for The Hechinger Report. ITHACA, N.Y.

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Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

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This new attention to career advising largely stems from growing expectations that institutions will help students get good jobs — which 85 percent of first-year students rated as “very important” among their reasons for going to college in the first place, according to a national survey conducted by an institute at UCLA.

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What’s school without grade levels?

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You are studying what you need to study at your level.”. Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

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Katalin Varga associate professor 11:30am The usage of data mining technologies in the library / Adatbányászati technológiák könyvtári hasznosítása - Edina Kovacs - student 12:00pm "Tour" of Liaison Services and Challenges for STEM Outreach - Lea Leininger, Health Sciences Librarian Federated or harvested searching.

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From foster care to college

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College students often decamp from their universities during the summer to intern, study abroad or just get a break from dining hall food. Later that day, she planned to study for her summer session classes, English and public speaking, and to meet with an advisor. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. KALAMAZOO, Mich.

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