Guest Blogger: Kate Forgash

While campus life hasnt changed all that much since the heyday of the flower generation, Baby Boomers returning to college are noticing major differences on the educational side. More classes are taught by adjunct professors; what once was a C+ is now often graded as a B+; and, most strikingly, tuition rates have soared like pterodactyls in a prehistoric sky.

According to CollegeBoard.com, public four-year institutions presently charge in-state students an average of $8,244 in tuition and fees each year. Thats a daunting investment. Yet in 2007,U.S. News and World Report found the previous decade saw the total number of college students aged 40 to 64 increase nearly 20 percent, to almost two million.

So how can Baby Boomers afford higher education? W

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LOS ANGELES — This one was a no-brainer.

Makenzie Brandon (Seattle, WA) was named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s Female Student-Athlete of the Week on Tuesday, after scoring a career high 36 points in the Occidental College women’s basketball team’s 73-67 comeback win over Whittier College on Jan. 14. Brandon scored an unbelievable 27 points in the second half alone to help the Tigers erase a six-point halftime deficit. Sh

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A Googling public has spoken. Lots of people seem interested in the soon-to-be-viral video of Detroit Lakes senior forward Alex Mason scoring a ridiculous shorthanded breakaway goal. That’s a fantastic play, and something I’ve never really seen before. That goal was one of two goals scored by Mason in Detroit Lakes 5-1 win over Bagley/Fosston on February 10th. He followed that up with 2 goals and 3 assists the following night in a 5-1 win over Northern Lakes.

Mason is an interesting story. He’s a Native American from the White Earth Indian Reservation, but chose to go to school at Detroit Lakes to help his hockey career. Mason currently leads Detroit Lakes’ team with 14 goals and 23 assists for 37 points in 24 games.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is hitting the road to promote his education reform proposal.

The Democratic governor is scheduled to visit the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden on Thursday, the day after he unveiled his revised $20 billion budget proposal for next fiscal year and his plans to revamp public schools in Connecticut.

Malloy is expected to tour the school and then discuss his package of initiatives with the city’s education administrators, local and state officials.

Malloy wants to spend an additional $128 million on various education proposals, such as funding 500 new early childhood education seats, targeting additional funding to troubled schools and revamping teacher tenure practices.