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☆ ‘Boys Love’ genre finds new audiences in South Korea
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-17 | by ( Jake Kwon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Not only was the TV series part of a genre — Boys’ Love, or BL for short — that was lesser-known in South Korea, it depicted something rarely seen on the country’s screens: same-sex romance. “Semantic Error,” which was based on a popular web novel of the same name, tells the story of two male college students who fall in love. And the risk paid off: “Semantic Error” became a hit upon its release in 2022. There are currently more than 20 BL shows being produced in South Korea. The on-screen adaptation of "Semantic Error" stars Park Seo-ham as Jang Jae-young and Jaechan as Chu Sang-woo.

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☆ Don’t let student loans define you. Here’s how to achieve that — and your goals
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Ana Teresa Solá | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

mapodile | E+ | Getty ImagesAfter a more than three-year payment pause, federal student loan bills will once again be part of Americans' lives this fall. Indeed, a recent survey conducted by Trellis Company found that holders of student loan debt experienced key distress indicators at higher rates compared with all survey respondents. What is student loan identity? Student loan expert Ryan Law, a CFP and professor at Utah Valley University, said he has witnessed student debt anxiety, and denial, among current college students. "What I've generally found is that most people don't really want to know a lot of information about their student loans."

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☆ Frank founder Charlie Javice gave JP Morgan millions of names and emails for college students she said were customers, but 'it was all fake,' prosecutor says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Nate Schweber | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Javice is accused of grossly exaggerating the numbers of customers she had before her sale to JP Morgan. After hat after the initial deception to JP Morgan Chase, Javice and Amar pivoted to another, Fergenson said. Javice and Amar presented it all in a spreadsheet to JP Morgan Chase, representing all of the names to be Frank users, Fergenson said. Javice's attorney, Alex Spiro, who has alleged that JP Morgan Chase is retaliating against his client for her exposure of their violating of privacy laws, objected. "The government is just regurgitating to the court JP Morgan Chase's civil lawsuit," he said.

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☆ Opinion | Colleges Can Do a Lot for Social Mobility Right Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As Katharine Meyer, a fellow in the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, has written: “Overall enrollment is down, especially at community colleges. There are more ‘stopped out’ students — students who left college with some credits but no degree. Restore Funding That Was Cut After the Great RecessionIt sounds obvious, but if we want a more effective system of higher education, that requires money. According to analysis from the National Education Association, “In 2020, it looked like things were slowly improving, but then the pandemic hit. found that “32 states spent less on public colleges and universities in 2020 than in 2008, with an average decline of nearly $1,500 per student.”

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☆ A Kansas College Restored a Mercedes. It’s Now Headed to Pebble Beach.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Rob Sass | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A group of more than 60 college students in Kansas is bringing attention to the problem in an incredibly striking way. Over six years, they have restored a 1953 Mercedes-Benz 300S, and it’s been accepted as an entrant at perhaps the most prestigious car show on the planet: the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, held next month in California. team in the Super Bowl, that’s really what this is like,” said Brian Martin, director of the Automotive Restoration Technology Program at McPherson College in Kansas. The idea of competing at Pebble Beach was a moonshot. The college will not say how much it paid for the Mercedes, but based on previous sales its estimated worth is more than $500,000.

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☆ Here’s one thing Baby Boomers and Gen Z have in common
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —There’s nearly a 50-year age gap between the oldest Baby Boomer and the youngest member of Gen Z. As Pew President Michael Dimock put it, a common misconception about Baby Boomers’ past serves as a reminder of a key question we should be asking as we talk about Gen Z today. Cultural critic Louis Menand has pointed out that another important detail often gets overlooked when talking about this chapter in Baby Boomers’ past. And Gen Z may not be as ‘woke’ as you thinkCould our understanding of Gen Z’s politics – frequently described as liberal – also be missing part of the picture? Joe Raedle/Getty Images“In poll after poll, we have found enormous diversity among Gen Z and their views,” she says.

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☆ China's youth unemployment is so dire that it's inspired recent college grads to post pictures of themselves sprawled on the ground in 'zombie-style' poses
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

China's youth unemployment rate hit a record high of 20.8% in May. On June 13, the Radii media outlet tweeted a photo collage of some of these graduating students donning black or purple graduation gowns in various poses. While this particular pose is trending this year, this graduation season's posts were often accompanied by other happier pictures of the graduating students. It also isn't the first time graduates in China have taken unusual graduation photos, according to posts seen by Insider on Xiaohongshu. These trending poses of despondence come as China's youth unemployment rate hit a record high of 20.8% in May, according to official statistics.

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☆ How to ace a cold email, according to hiring experts: 'Change your mindset to a warm email'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Isabel Engel | In Isabel--Engel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A cold email is an important way to network within your potential field of interest, Monster career expert Vicki Salemi tells CNBC Make It. To successfully send a cold email — and get on your dream company's radar — hiring experts share their tips in this step-by-step guide. Establish a connectionHow to ace the art of the cold email? Ultimately, Salemi says that warm emails, based on commonalities, are often more successful than cold emails. "Try to change your mindset from a cold email to a warm email," Salemi says.

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Harvard Admit rate: 4% 10k students Duke University Admit rate: 6% 7k students Amherst College Admit rate: 9% 2k students Carnegie Mellon University Admit rate: 14% 7k students University of California, Berkeley Admit rate: 14% 30k students Boston University Admit rate: 19% 20k students University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Admit rate: 20% 20k students University of Texas, Austin Admit rate: 29% 40k students University of Florida Admit rate: 30% 30k students Bucknell University Admit rate: 35% 4k students San Diego State University Admit rate: 38% 30k students Binghamton University Admit rate: 44% 10k students University of California, Davis Admit rate: 49% 30k students Clemson University Admit rate: 49% 20k students Stevens Institute of Technology Admit rate: 53% 4k students University of Washington, Seattle Campus Admit rate: 54% 40k students Brigham Young University Admit rate: 59% 30k students CUNY Queens College Admit rate: 61% 20k students Texas A & M University, College Station Admit rate: 64% 60k students University of Pittsburgh Admit rate: 67% 20k students Texas Tech University Admit rate: 68% 30k students Ball State University Admit rate: 68% 10k students Rutgers University, New Brunswick Admit rate: 68% 40k students Purdue University Admit rate: 69% 40k students Louisiana State University Admit rate: 71% 30k students University of Delaware Admit rate: 72% 20k students University of Central Missouri Admit rate: 76% 8k students Mississippi State University Admit rate: 76% 20k students University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Admit rate: 78% 10k students University of Alabama Admit rate: 79% 30k students University of North Carolina, Charlotte Admit rate: 79% 20k students University of Colorado Boulder Admit rate: 80% 30k students Drexel University Admit rate: 83% 10k students University of Arkansas Admit rate: 83% 20k students University of Cincinnati Admit rate: 85% 30k students University of Texas, Dallas Admit rate: 87% 20k students Suffolk University Admit rate: 88% 4k students Arizona State University Admit rate: 88% 60k students West Chester University of Pennsylvania Admit rate: 89% 10k students Grand Valley State University Admit rate: 92% 20k students University of Kansas Admit rate: 93% 20k students Utah State University Admit rate: 93% 20k students California State University, Sacramento Admit rate: 94% 30k students University of Utah Admit rate: 95% 30k students Kansas State University Admit rate: > 95% 20k students University of Wyoming Admit rate: > 95% 9k students 90% admission rate 80% admission rate 70% admission rate 60% admission rate 50% admission rate 40% admission rate 30% admission rate 20% admission rate 10% admission rate These are America’s major four-year colleges, arranged by their admission rates. Just 6 percent of all college students attend a school with an acceptance rate of 25 percent or less. 56 percent of these college students go to a school that admits at least three-quarters of its applicants. These statistics reveal a simple fact about affirmative action in higher education: It mattered very little for the majority of American college students. But because affirmative action only opened a tiny window of access to America’s most elite institutions, the ruling will make little difference for most college students.

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☆ People are 'hot bedding,' or sharing a bed with a stranger and sleeping in shifts to save money on rent
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Hot bedding typically involves strangers sharing a bed to save on rent. Similar to hot desking, hot bedding typically entails tenants coordinating shifts for bed use. In a 2021 survey, 3% of international college students living in Australia reported hot bedding. Hot bedding involves sharing a bed with a stranger, usually while sleeping in shifts. Do you participate in hot bedding, either as a tenant or landlord — or know someone who does?

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☆ Opinion: Supreme Court drops the H-bomb and D-bomb
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Richard Galant | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. Graduates of Harvard and other Ivy League schools earn significantly more than most college graduates –— the credential opens doors. Maybe the best confirmation of that is that eight out of the nine Supreme Court justices went to law school at either Harvard or its Ivy rival, Yale. “The court’s decision Thursday is consistent with its view that race-based preferences should and would have a limited shelf life. And the Supreme Court has just guaranteed that this will be the case for many years to come.”“The court made the right decision,” wrote Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University.

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☆ A student-loan company that services millions of borrowers played a big role in defeating Biden's debt cancellation plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The Supreme Court struck down Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan by a 6-3 vote. The majority said the six GOP-led states had standing to involve student-loan company MOHELA in its lawsuit against the plan. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that "the plan's harm to MOHELA is also a harm to Missouri." At the time, she asked the lawyer representing the states: "Why didn't the state just make MOHELA come then?" The majority didn't see it that way — and Biden's broad student-debt relief plan is effectively blocked.

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☆ The Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling could hurt the job prospects for candidates of color
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Chandelis Duster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Supreme Court’s landmark decision shooting down affirmative action could hurt the college-to-career pipeline many companies lean on to diversify their ranks. The Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling could make it even harder for those efforts to bear fruit. Elite schools offer opportunities like networking, graduate resources and mentoring, as well. Not being admitted to elite schools could thus harm many candidates of color. Legal, medical fields still lack diversityIn the legal profession, for example, law schools are key for the pipeline to clerkships and even judgeships.

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☆ Opinion: The Supreme Court rewrites American society once again
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Opinion Cnn Contributors | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

But learning the facts - that affirmative action is critical for fostering equal access and opportunity in our academic institutions -cemented my belief that affirmative action is necessary if we want to create an equitable nation. The court’s decision Thursday is consistent with its view that race-based preferences should and would have a limited shelf life. Jon Wang, who revealed himself as a plaintiff in this Supreme Court case, was rejected by Harvard but was accepted at and is now attending Georgia Tech. Affirmative action enabled my ability to experience different ways of thinking and to form the lasting friendships I have made. Affirmative action has been a tool used by many countries to ensure underrepresented communities are included in areas they normally are not.

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Those figures are now 20% at Berkeley Law and 15% at Michigan Law. The Association of American Law Schools on July 10 is convening a virtual conference focused on admissions in a post-affirmative action landscape, chaired by Berkeley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky. Alongside strategies to recruit and admit diverse students, Zearfoss said the changing demographics of the law school applicant pool have helped Michigan Law bolster student diversity—good news for law schools now facing an affirmative action ban. The law school also prioritizes recruiting at events geared toward minority applicants and at college and universities with significant minority enrollment, Zearfoss added. Michigan Law and Berkeley Law both voluntarily withhold information about each applicant's race to ensure they comply with their state laws, admissions officials said.

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☆ How payments giant Mastercard is revamping is work culture to lure developers — from free days to work on passion projects to $200,000 salaries
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Mastercard is hiring tech talent across 7 global technology hubs. The payments firm wants software architects and talent in crypto and AI, among others. Mastercard wants to be a firm where technologists are excited to work. The qualifications and responsibilities listed on Mastercard tech job postings are intentionally vague so as to attract a diverse pool of talent with broad skill sets, Cummins said. They can also work remotely from anywhere for up to four weeks per year with the "Work from Elsewhere" benefit.

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Our experts answer readers' student loan questions and write unbiased product reviews (here's how we assess student loans). The majority of respondents have student loans, and plan to make future changes in order to pay them. Of the 87% of respondents who have student loans, 54% said they want to pay off their loans as quickly as possible. After graduation, 59% of borrowers expect to take a second job or side hustle in order to make their loan payments. Student loan payments will resume soonMany workers of all ages have student loans on the brain right now, as the US prepares for the pandemic-era, three-year student loan pause to expire in October.

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☆ Finance is the No. 1 industry Gen Z wants to work in, says new research—more than tech or health care
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Recent and soon-to-be college graduates have different visions of the "perfect job": Some want to work in New York, while others might aspire to be their own bosses. But many Gen Zers are dreaming of a career in finance. Close to 10,000 current college students and recent graduates in 13 countries including the U.S., Canada and Mexico were polled for the report. What has set finance apart from its competitors, and made it the career path du jour among Gen Z, is how finance companies have responded to these challenges. As other industries pause hiring, college career advisors and industry professionals say financial firms are upping their recruiting efforts on college campuses to attract Gen Z.

Persons: overhiring, Gen Organizations: Finance, CFA Institute Locations: New York, U.S, Canada, Mexico

☆ Exclusive: Software company Enfusion draws takeover interest from private equity, Irenic Capital
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Svea Herbst-Bayliss | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

NEW YORK, June 26 (Reuters) - Software company Enfusion Inc (ENFN.N) is attracting takeover interest from private equity firms and strategic buyers, several people familiar with the matter said. Enfusion's management has been approached in recent months by Francisco Partners, Vista Equity Partners and investment firm Irenic Capital Management, said the sources who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The company has experienced turbulence in the executive ranks, with its chief executive officer and chief financial officer resigning just months apart from one another last year. The name of the private equity partner could not be learned. Irenic, which was co-founded by Elliott Management veteran Adam Katz and former Indaba Capital partner Andy Dodge, recently worked with private equity giant Apollo Global Management to buy industrial parts manufacturer Arconic.

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☆ Why Chinese students are taking graduation photos looking ‘more dead than alive’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

These are graduation photos, and their theme is “being more dead than alive,” according to the accompanying caption. Urban youth unemployment is at record levels, reaching 20.8% in May, and an influx of new job seekers will only increase the competition. Li Nian, a PhD student who graduated this past week, is among those to have posted “more dead than alive” style photos. After being inspired by examples online, Li took her own graduation photos, which are funny despite the tiredness depicted. “I thought I would remember such graduation photos for the rest of my life,” she told CNN.

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☆ Midwest American Cities Are Facing a Downtown Crisis, Urban Doom Loop
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

But Midwestern cities are also facing a crisis of their own — struggling to attract workers, residents, and visitors to their downtowns. Nine of the 13 Midwestern cities tracked in the study were in the bottom half of the rankings. In the early part of the 20th century, Midwestern cities boomed — attracting workers and families seeking out manufacturing jobs and education. Many Midwestern cities relied on a single industry or even a single company to buttress its economy. "If office workers are coming downtown less, but college students are willing to come downtown more, what about literally putting a college in your downtown?"

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☆ How to Crush the Wall Street Summer Internship
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Wall Street's summer internship season is finally here — and the competition will be fierce. "I wouldn't be surprised if it's 70% or even less," he said of the return offer rates at the end of the summer. So if you're starting your Wall Street internship now, congratulations. At the end of the summer, they may help determine who gets a return offer. "It's a 10-week internship, you're 20 years old.

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☆ A 16-year-old pocketed $50,000 for her award-winning discovery in the brains of people who died by suicide
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Adam Barnes | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

She researches the brains of people who died by suicide to identify biomarkers. Identifying biomarkers of suicide in the human brainKulviwat found differences in the brains of 10 people who died by suicide compared to the control group: 10 people who died of other causes. The brains of those who died by suicide, which were donated for study by their next of kin, contained higher numbers of inflammatory cytokines. Though treatments for suicidal behavior exist, including psychotherapy and medications, suicide rates have mostly increased over the last 20 years. Hearing different perspectives and questioning why suicide research isn't progressing as much as other fields — like cancer or infectious diseases — inspired her research, she said.

Persons: Natasha Kulviwat, —, Gordon E, Moore, Natasha, it's, Kulviwat, she's, Dr, David Feifel, Feifel, What's, I'm Organizations: Regeneron, Science, Engineering, Service, Columbia University, Society for Science, Centers for Disease Control, University of California, Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute —, National Institute of Health, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Locations: claudin, University of California San Diego

☆ Why more and more colleges are closing down across the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Devan Burris | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The mid-2010's saw an uptick in U.S. college closures, particularly among private nonprofit schools. This trend has affected tens of thousands of college students across the country. Since 2016, 91 U.S. private colleges have closed, merged with another school, or announced plans to close, according to a CNBC analysis of data from Higher Ed Dive. About 95% of U.S. colleges rely on tuition, according to Franek, meaning they rely on money from students to operate. Watch the video above to learn what headwinds higher education is facing and hear from students affected by college closures.

Persons: Robert Franek, We'll, Fitch, Emily Wadhwani Organizations: CNBC, The Princeton

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