“More first-year college students have concerns about their ability to finance college than at any time since 1971, according to the CIRP Freshman Survey, UCLA’s annual survey of the nation’s entering students at four-year colleges and universities.”
Find out what else freshman are concerned about and the wide impact of those concerns.
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Today’s Fremont Tribune has this article:
In just one word, Karen Melang can sum up Fremont Area Habitat for Humanity’s efforts: “Amazing.”
“I can’t help but think about the people who formed Habitat in this community,” said Melang, the executive director of the local chapter. “I can’t imagine a day where they thought they’d build 50 homes.”
By year’s end, Fremont’s Habitat chapter will have done just that — built 50 houses since forming in 1993.
Throughout the years, Midland Lutheran College students have pitched in on several builds. Recently, the Warrior football team pitched in some muscle to help with Habitat builds. Khalid Waters even made the paper that day.
Congratulations to a fine group for providing homes to those who need them and for providing Midland students with opportunities to serve the community.
Sept. 23, 2008, Fremont Tribune, photo by Chris Bristol
G.I. Jobs magazine has named Midland Lutheran College to its list of the top 15% of veteran friendly colleges.
Part of MLC’s appeal to servicemen and women is our full implementation of the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill and the Yellow Ribbon Program.
After the sacrifices these veterans have made for our country, Midland is proud to be able to something in return.
As if science majors needed more options…
Tom Hoegemeyer is concerned.
And when one of the most innovative and well-respected plant breeders in the seed industry is concerned, people tend to take notice.
“We need scientists and technicians,” he said Thursday during his presentation at the Hoegemeyer Homecoming Field Day. “The future of agriculture depends on it.”
One of Hoegemeyer’s concerns is there are not a lot of crop scientists and researchers who are younger than 50 years old.
“We have a huge opportunity in crop genetics, in crop research and we’ve had a real dearth in people going into it,” he said. “Lots of the scientists in crop areas are my age or nearly my age. There are not many people in the field younger than 50 years old.”
Midland Lutheran offers many science-based majors and has an outstanding acceptance rate for science-based graduate school programs.
Don’t forget, there are also thousands of dollars in science-based scholarships available, too.
The demand for scientists is growing in hundreds of fields… even the field field.
USA Today has a great article about last minute financial aid for college students.
As always, lots of information can be found through Midland’s Financial Aid office.
Midland’s love for trees is not as common elsewhere.
Check out this Omaha World-Herald article:
Extreme weather, unstoppable infestations, missteps by humans and a declining public investment in trees are combining to jeopardize the canopy across Nebraska and Iowa, arborists say. And that decline is accelerating.
“We’re truly at a tipping point,” said Eric Berg of the Nebraska Forest Service. “If we don’t take this seriously, our kids are not going to have the larger trees to enjoy, the parks and shaded streets.”
The losses will get even greater when the emerald ash borer arrives, with the potential to devour as much as one-third of the two states’ trees. The foreign invader has been found within 100 yards of Iowa’s eastern border and is expected to arrive in Nebraska in the next several years.
