From time to time, I would like to write about colleges and universities from the perspective of studying Rutgers University, my alma mater and school I know best I have earned two degrees from Rutgers and formed successful professional relationships with university administrators

Still curious about Rutgers-Nebraska comparisons, I stumbled on a short biography of former Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne in a book I just finished called 100 Heroes: People in Sports Who Make This a Better World It led me to collect a little more information about this Hall of Fame coach, which I?d like to share with the online audience

This fall, as numerous college rankings hit the bookstores, I was curious to find an answer to the question: ?What is an ?excellent school?? after a parent, prospective student or college recruiter sifted through all of this material

It has been 30 years since I was a high school senior, but I had to take the SATs just as 11th and 12th graders do now I did okay, but not good enough to get into my two first choice schools

Life can get extremely complex when you have multiple debts Not only do you have to find the money to make the monthly repayments, you have to keep track of who needs paid, how much and when

Tom Perrotta and I have two things in common: New Jersey roots and novels about sex education; his latest work, The Abstinence Teacher is the only other novel, besides my own, The Sex Ed Chronicles, that I have read which covers a subject that is still considered taboo in some social circles The Abstinence Teacher has two main characters: Ruth Ramsey, a divorcee' and high school sex educator who makes one inappropriate comment too many, drawing the ire of the evangelical Tabernacle church and its hell for leather Pastor Dennis, and Tim Mason, a former stoner and rock n' roller, also divorced, turned born-again Christian and doting soccer dad

If your son is a professional baseball prospect, you might want to know what makes more sense for him: continue playing at the collegiate level, or turn pro right away The price where it pays to go pro might surprise you

Going back to 1980 to write The Sex Ed Chronicles required me to return to the 60's and 70's to get the political setting just right Until I started my research, I did not know that sex education had been considered part of a 'Communist plot

Americans love rankings; educated consumers want to know what's the best on the market for autos, electronics, airline services, and hotels among other things Educated businesspeople take high rankings seriously, loudly shouting independent praises through their advertising

Journalist Hanna Rosin has written God's Harvard, a wonderful book about Patrick Henry College, a Christian school that its chancellor calls "a Harvard for the home-schooled" Rosin, who has covered religion and politics for the Washington Post, has crafted an insightful ? some of more moderate or liberal political persuasions might find scary ? story of a relatively new institution, one that has a mission of preparing an "evangelical elite" for political leadership