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1. 2011: A Commencement Oddity
(Life/Style)

... Accounting Degrees and Will Work for Food” signs. But it is merely an ugly rumor that most popular job openings today for graduates are Al Queda leader, Somali pirate, and Octomom. At this point in your ...

2. Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno says booing at William Patterson graduation was polite protest
(N.J./State)

... in the Meadowlands Sports Complex where Christie heard scattered boos when he spoke to Seton Hall graduates on Monday, Guardano saw more than 100 graduates and some spectators stand and turn their backs, ...

3. Gov. Christie, 'The Disruptor,' booed at another college commencement
(N.J./State)

... Chris Christie gave the commencement address to Seton Hall graduates at the Izod Center in East Rutherford on Monday. He was well received by many of the 2,281 graduates, but many of the graduates from ...

4. Michael Vick as commencement speaker stirs pro and con reactions
(Sports/Professional)

... continuing distrust. Camelot Schools reps believe the story of Vick’s fall and rise again will be good for these graduates to hear, according to PhillySports.com. That Vick worked through a difficult ...

5. Newark's Science Park High loses bid to have Obama as commencement speaker
(N.J./State)

... address the graduates. Obama addressed the graduates of Booker T. Washington, the winning school, in Memphis on Monday. Obama has set a goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the ...

6. UMDNJ and Grenada medical school move to head off physician shortage projected for N.J.
(Health/Healthquest)

... the people of New Jersey by providing medical graduates who are truly prepared to practice in the 21st century." St. George’s University School of Medicine, established in 1977, has more than 1,000 graduates ...

7. Online rating begins in contest that could bring Obama to Newark's Science Park High
(Life/Style)

... “win the future and achieve the goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.” Obama has taped a video message encouraging the public to go to whitehouse.gov/commencement ...

8. Biden: 'Decency of a nation' lies in a new campaign against sexual violence
(U.S./Nation)

... by the time she graduates from high school, and 20 percent of college women will be victims of attempted or actual sexual assault during their college years as will about six percent of men. The effects ...

9. Science Park High School in Newark is finalist to have Obama speak at commencement
(N.J./State)

... proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020 and the Commencement Challenge invited the nation’s public high schools to submit applications that demonstrate their commitment to preparing students ...

10. Snooki getting paid to go to college
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Snooki, the Rutgers University Programming Association, used the mandatory student activity fees undergraduates pay with their tuition. The association’s vice president of the comedy and movies committee ...

11. It’s better to borrow for college rather than stop contributions to your 401(k)
(Money/Economy)

BY ROBERT J. DiQUOLLO Many college graduates receive more than a degree – they also leave school with thousands of dollars’ worth of debt. For parents, this presents a dilemma: Do you find the money ...

12. Rutgers will pay Toni Morrison $30K for commencement speech
(N.J./State)

... the approximate 13,000 graduates and their guests, officials said. Officials did not say where Morrison’s fee will come from, however, but university spokesman Ken Branson said that Rutgers will not ...

13. Creating jobs, ‘winning the future’ requires investing in N.J. higher education
(Opinion/Commentary)

... energy and other innovation industries, one of our strengths has been our system of higher education that produces graduates ready to innovate and tackle tomorrow's challenges. Inexplicably, the state ...

14. New Jersey's 529 College Savings plans may soon be tax deductible
(Money/Economy)

... as much in the future, a study found that in 2008 high school graduates made $33,618 a year, college graduates $60,954. The top amount of contributions for one beneficiary is limited to $305,000. You ...

15. Cutting student aid and research funding will hurt competitiveness
(Opinion/Commentary)

... of dollars of new funding into research and development, the United States can ill afford to fall further behind in producing highly skilled college graduates or generating groundbreaking research. Yet ...

16. Rutgers to allow co-ed, gender-neutral housing
(Life/Style)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM At the request of gay student groups at the university, Rutgers will be allowing male and female students to room together in the fall. More than 100 undergraduates ...

17. does more money mean higher test scores?
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Why is it that a home schooled child graduates high shool two years earlier? Why does it only cost $500/year to home school? Why are teacher unions, administrators and politicians so againt home school? Why ...

18. Prize-winning novel ‘Almost Perfect' puts you inside the life of a transgendered teen
(Life/Style)

... relationship ends, Logan graduates and goes off to the local university, and Sage to another out of state. I had to keep reminding myself that Almost Perfect is a novel, not nonfiction. Yet in his acknowledgements, ...

19. Higher Education Task Force offers hope for New Jersey amid economic challenges
(Opinion/Commentary)

... this state should produce, by 2025, over 760,000 additional associate or bachelor's degree graduates, beyond current degree production levels. Doing so would support President Obama's goal for national ...

20. REVIEW: ‘Cymbeline’ gets a keen showing
(Entertainment/Movies)

... arrived Sunday at the New Victory Theater. Presented under the auspices of Theatre For a New Audience, this production is the frisky creation of Fiasco Theater, a troupe founded in 2007 by graduates ...