We’ve seen a lot of cuts to higher education in Florida in recent years, and the country’s largest college may be paying a price for it.

Miami Dade College has been warned from its accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, that it doesn’t have enough full-time faculty to carry out its mission, thus putting its accreditation in jeopardy. Check out my story here. It’s rare for a school to lose accreditation, but if it does, the consequences are dire. A school can’t received federal financial aid money, and most other schools won’t accept credits from an unaccredited institution.

This will be an important issue to watch over the next year to see if this is an isolated instance of a school that may have grown beyond its capacity, or whether it’s an ominous sign for other community colleges and public universities in the state. All have faced similar budget cuts and all are accredited by the same body.

The best case scenario for Miami Dade College would be if is a merely a data reporting problem, in which the school is meeting its mission, but just failed to clearly explain that to the Southern Association. The school wi

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About 14 million Americans are unemployed and looking for work, and millions more are facing foreclosure. Some have kids in college, and those struggling families must make tough choices about whether to borrow money to pay for school.

Many college students, like those at the University of New England, are learning how to live on a strict budget. They’re trying to avoid falling into too much debt.

Anxiety And Stress Rising On Campus

The campus at the University of New England in southern Maine is a postcard image. It’s right on the bank of the Saco River, which empties into the Atlantic Ocean. A red navigation buoy floats in the water outside the lunchroom’s windows.

Like many college campuses it might look like a country club, says John Langevin, assistant dean and school psychologist. But behind the scenes, many young people are under serious financial strain. Langevin says he and other mental health counselors on campus are seeing a higher-than-usual percentage of students in counseling services.

Langevin points to a recent survey by a national association of college counselors that shows a change in recent years.

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It’s the last week of April, college crunch time. You may be both recovering from the disappointment of rejection and worrying about which school that accepted you is best. Here are my five mental health tips for surviving this moment:

1. Those rejections aren’t the problem.

University of South Florida education professor Sherman Dorn says the greatest barriers for college-bound students “will not be the inability to be admitted into every place [they] apply” but instead getting the money for college, dealing with university budget cuts and surviving the daunting academic demands of the first semester. Dorn chides education writers like me who bemoan great students getting rejected by their first choices but who ignore the fact that they almost all get into good schools.

2. If you don’t like the college you chose, it’s easy to get another one.

We have a former college transfer student in the White House. He moved from Occidental College to Columbia University his junior year. About 20 pe

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Okay, so you are a high school senior and for the first time you are faced with going through the application process. Part of that process involves writing your first college essay. You have no idea how to proceed. You’re sitting their thinking to yourself… What in the world do I do? How should I proceed?

I’d like to let you in on a little secret; most colleges aren’t looking for you to write a perfect essay. They are more likely to be impressed by someone who sounds like a real person and has the ability to get through four years of college. Most colleges would rather have a duller student who will pay tuition for 4 years than a brilliant one who drops out after one semester.

Listed below are some tips and a few things to watch out for as you begin writing your college essays. I have

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Hey high school seniors. I have some news for you, according to the video and articles link (see link below), you guys are not ready for college.

It seems that several groups from teachers, to parents to administrators and so-called experts are greatly concerned.

High School Students Not Ready for College

Question for you… Are you as dumb as they say you are? <

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Help! I am a Homesick College Freshman

Let’s get right to the point – You’re a college student, in most cases a college freshman and this is your first time away from home for an extended period of time.

Now of course you’ve been away from home before, a few days here or there, maybe even a week. But nothing like this where you are really, really away.

You didn’t think it would happen to you but it has…You’ve got the “Homesick College Freshman Blues”.

Is it Normal to Feel Homesick at College?

First of all, just so you know, YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Almost ALL college freshmen feel this at some point while they are away. There are thousands of other college freshmen at other schools across the country, that are right now feeling the same way you do. So it’s not just you feeling this way.

I’ll let you in on a little secret, even full-grown adults sometimes feel this way. I once worked for a

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