Weekly Round-Up: December 2

Happy Friday! Can you believe it’s already December? Bring on the snow.

Here are some of our favorite student achievements and articles of the week:

Achievements

• Anthony Barranco Participates in St. Jude Fundraising Drive at Marist College (404 individual achievements)
• Jennifer Bolognani of Chicago is Among 112 Lewis University Nursing Students to Pass NCLEX Nursing Exam (44 individual achievements)
• Jana Lowe Honored as Davis & Elkins Senior Athlete (6 individual achievements)

Articles

• A report released this week by the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California examines the factors that influence college graduation. [Education Week]
• Three in four Americans now say that college is too expensive for most people to afford. This article by The New York Times talks about how the Occupy movement protests helped push spiraling college costs into the national spotlight, again.