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College and high school students now have a new way to keep track of important deadlines, following the recent launch of a free, nationwide master calendar and information system for higher education institutions.More than 1,500 four-year colleges and universities, including the University, are now involved with the ?College Life is Cool? Web site, www.theclic.net, which provides students, high schools, colleges and community programs access to information about scholarships, financial aid and application deadlines, according to CLIC network CEO Donna Michelle Anderson.?The CLIC is a useful resource for students because it allows them to access information about any college from just one Web site,? she said.The site is also useful, Anderson said, because it helps students judge and compare different aspects of the college application process, from scholarships and financial aid packages to the individual schools themselves.


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Financial aid group releases proposals

Rethinking Student Aid, a group of higher education policy experts, published its findings Thursday regarding two years of meetings about simplifying and improving the federal financial aid system.The report focuses on improving both financial aid and the student loan system, said Rethinking Student Aid member Kathleen Little, senior executive director of College Board Financial Aid Programs.


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Facebook could play role in admissions

Though some students may believe the practice commonly described as ?Facebook stalking? is limited to their own generation or potential employers, a Kaplan survey has found that social networking profiles are also sometimes reviewed by undergraduate and graduate schools? admissions offices.


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Financial crisis affects job prospects

In light of the recent economic troubles facing the U.S. business market, the Commerce School is stepping up its efforts to prepare students for the job market, especially those interested in investment banking.Tom Fitch, assistant dean of career services at the Commerce School, said Commerce Career Services is trying to give students who want to go into investment banking more options outside of the big banking or ?bulge bracket? firms because a number of those firms have recently filed for bankruptcy.?We might be pointing [Commerce students] in the directions of more alternative types, locations and sizes of firms,? Fitch said.


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Lawn tailgates allowed, with changes

In advance of the upcoming Oct. 4 home football game against the University of Maryland, the University has once again issued a statement allowing Lawn social events, albeit with several new provisions designed to better control excessive crowds and maintain the historic Lawn community, Dean of Students Allen Groves said.The new provisions, which reverse the tailgate ban issued following the home football game against the University of Southern California, are the result of extended discussion with Lawn and Range residents last week, Groves said.


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Volkswagen to fund state institutions

Volkswagen Group of America announced a five-year, $2.1 million education initiative and partnership yesterday with six institutions in Virginia and Washington, D.C., including the University.At the University, the initiative, called ?Partners in Education,? will fund a new international component of the Rodman Scholars program and a graduate engineering student fellowship, Volkswagen Group Communication Director Jill Bratina said.


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Curry School hosts new speaker series

The Education School will launch the Curry Education Research Lectureship Series today, with the first of several speakers seeking to promote further discussion of education-related ideas.


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Police arrest three suspects in connection with shooting

Following the Wednesday afternoon shooting at the off-Grounds University Heights apartment community during which three people were wounded and one was killed, Albemarle County Police have made several arrests and University Heights officials are now making efforts to address the situation, Albemarle County Police Lieut.


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Obama campaign visits Grounds

Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, and Jill Biden, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden, targeted undecided female voters at a rally in Newcomb Plaza yesterday.


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Alumnus

Considering herself a friend of the University, Elizabeth ?Ibby? Greer, widow of T. Keister Greer, a University alumnus and lawyer, will be donating her husband?s personal legal files to the Corcoran Department of History later this year in hopes of giving back to the University that she believes gave her husband so much.?It was his Virginia education that made his career,? Ibby Greer said, noting that her husband?s education gave him the ability to spot technicalities that others could not.


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Minority graduate students increase

The Council of Graduate Schools released a study this week that revealed national growth in the enrollment of minority populations in graduate degree programs.The study ?documents the success of graduate schools in achieving a more representative student body,? said Stuart Heiser, manager of government relations & external affairs for the council.Heiser explained that the study surveyed both the members of the council and also the members of the four regional associations of graduate schools.


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