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Free Tickets to the Providence Bruins for CU students

                                        Friday, November 16th 7:05pm at the Dunkin Donuts Center   RWU School of Continuing Studies  

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In this undated photograph taken by Nobel prize winner Sir John Gurdon of his Eton College Summer 1949 report card, which describes his idea for becoming a scientist ' on his present showing that is quite ridiculous' . The report card indicates that he was at that stage bottom of his class. Gurdon went on to study Zoology at Cambridge won the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine which he shared with Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka, that was announced in Stockholm, Monday Oct. 8, 2012 .(AP Photo/John Gurdon)

Creative thinking led to Nobel Prize, not memorizing facts

LONDON (AP) — Teacher knows best? That doesn’t appear to be the case for one teacher who called a future Nobel Prize winner’s dreams of becoming a scientist “quite ridiculous” in a scathing report card. John Gurdon’s future success was almost nipped in the bud in 1949 when a schoolmaster at elite Eton College wrote […]

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10 Secrets to Success from Investor’s Business Daily

  Investor’s Business Daily analyzed leaders and successful people in all walks of life.  Here are the 10 traits they all had in common: 1  How you think is everything:  Always be positive.  Think success, not failure.  Beware of a negative environment. 2  Decide upon your true dreams and goals:  Write down your specific goals […]

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Adult learners at College Unbound, founded by Dennis Littky

Typical College Student Isn’t Typical Anymore

Think you know what the typical college student is like? Today’s typical college student is no longer an 18-year-old recent high-school graduate who enrolls full-time and has limited work and family obligations. Students today are older, more diverse and have more work and family obligations to balance. Turns out that 73 percent of college students […]

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College Unbound Midterm Exhibitions

Congratulations to College Unbound students, many of whom successfully completed the first public exhibition of their work last Monday.  Want to see more pictures of exhibitions?  Check out our video slideshow of exhibition night!

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College Unbound, founded by Dennis Littky, wins Innovation Award

College Unbound Receives Award

College Unbound has been named this year’s recipient of the “Innovative and Creative Program Award-Credit” by the New England Chapter of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA). The award ceremony was part of the regional conference held October 24-26, 2012 Ogunquit, ME. The nomination for this award was submitted by the former dean […]

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The Writing Process

Here’s an overview of the writing process we’ll be using to help students build their writing skills.

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Online education isn’t revolutionary if the pedagogy is the same

The revolution in college learning these days seems to be online learning.  Every course is being put on line – many for free.  The problem is that many of the lecture courses that are not exciting in person are less exciting online.  Yes, there is hybrid learning – but that’s just a little bit of […]

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Student Debt Can Stop Education in its Tracks

One of the missions of College Unbound is to provide an opportunity to gain a Bachelor’s Degree for adult students who have been unsuccessful in other college settings. What happens when those unsuccessful first college experiences come with a heavy price tag? A student with an unpaid debt to their first college cannot get an […]

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