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...lowest amount of support on campus. They speak less frequently with faculty members about future plans, work less often with classmates on assignments and half the number of transfers participate in co-curricular activities at about half the rate as non-transfer students. "Schools simply must work harder to pull transfer students in because they're not getting a full experience right now," McCormick says. "And that effort should start at day one with new-student orientations." Only time - and future NSSE results - will tell if colleges start to make improvements in this and other critical areas of student engagement...
...best in the conference. This was demonstrated in several big games at home against Michigan, Mercer, and Penn. They just never clicked together when on the road.“We didn’t have the experience, and we didn’t have the chemistry to pull out road wins,” Lin says. “But I think now we are a lot closer, a lot more experienced, and a lot more resilient. So I definitely think we won’t be having that problem this year.”The Crimson never settled...
...Normally columnists will warn about “trap games” in which good teams mail it in against seemingly overmatched opponents, which in turn take advantage of this sluggishness and pull off an upset...
...when I hit her with my dollars.” Ironically, while Smiff tries to exude cool, he merely achieves a parody of adult rappers. Big boys don’t roll in go-karts. Smiff can dream all he wants that he’ll pull up to his junior prom in a Maserati, but it’s not happening. Smiff is a 13-year-old wannabe and, while he’ll get older, it is doubtful that he’ll ever be half as cool as he thinks he is. While Smiff receives a bought...
...dispute with Moscow over missile defense? Probably not. Given the Democrat's ambiguous position on the issue, Russia is unlikely to accept any U.S. deal offered in the interregnum after his election. Yet Obama's "no drama" reaction at least avoided confrontation and bought him some time to pull together a foreign policy team and decide where he really stands on the deployment of missile defense to Europe. As former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage used to say, "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy' while looking for a stick...