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2002

Hunt Down Free Money: THIS Magazine If you must darken the door of the ivory tower, at least try to get someone else to pay for it. I know, it's only those crazy over-achiever kids who apply for scholarships - in between Model UN meetings, track meets and theatre rehearsals. But seriously, do you know how many millions in scholarship money is available every year? We're talking over 17,500 undergraduate scholarships annually. Have your ancestors been especially ripped off during the course of Canadian history? You might be eligible for even more. Two sites worth looking over: www.scholarshipscanada.com and the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society's comprehensive scholarship list www.ammsa.com. - excerpt, THIS Magazine, November/December 2002 Back to top Lina's Tips: The Making of a Filmmaker There is no typical day at the office when you're walking in the shoes of documentary filmmaker Herrie ten Cate. One day, he's hovering in a helicopter over the Barents Sea. The next, he might be exploring the sunken cities in the Nile River Delta. Sounds like Indiana Jones, doesn't it? And ten Cate definitely doesn't mind the adventures that come with his job, good or bad. For example, he and his crew were once ordered out of Russian airspace while shooting a documentary on the salvage of the Kursk nuclear submarine. The Kursk sank following an explosion in August 2000 and lay at the bottom of the Barents Sea with the bodies of more than 100 men and a substantial part of its weaponry still onboard. Ten Cate spent three months documenting the entire process of its salvage operation, an exciting journey that took him to Russia, Holland and Scotland... - (reprinted with permission from schoolfinder.com) - excerpt, The Student Guide, June 2002, p. 5 For full story click here. Back to top Lina's Tips: Those Who Can't Play Represent Not everyone who wants a career in sports can simply do it for the love of the game. Maybe you have figured by now that you're not the next Michael Jordan, Vince Carter or Anna Kournikova, but you still want to work in sports. The saying goes "Those who can't do, teach," and those who can't play, represent! They represent athletes who keep yelling "Show me the money!" Yes, I'm talking about sports agents. In the vast world of sports, having an agent is a must. Every single athlete you have heard of has an agent who is usually employed by the athlete or a management firm. The main job of the agent is to negotiate contracts and find endorsements for the athlete, keeping in mind the latter's best interest... - (reprinted with permission from schoolfinder.com) - excerpt, The Student Guide, June 2002, p. 5 For full story click here. Back to top EDge Interactive and CollegeNet form Alliance to Bring Application Technology to Canadian Schools EDge Interactive Publishing of Toronto and U.S.-based CollegeNET, Inc. have signed a marketing agreement that will give Canadian schools a presence on the CollegeNet.com Web site. It will also provide Canadian colleges and universities with access to leading online school application technology developed by CollegeNET... - excerpt, CRN Canada, May 13, 2002 Back to top Universities recruiting their best and brightest on the Internet ...At the University of Alberta, online services have been bolstered to ensure that surfing students from Airdrie to Africa not only get a full picture, but are able to tour, register, pick courses and pay up without leaving their consoles. "Students today are looking for a lot of information, and they want it easily accessible," said Jennifer Moroskat, recruiting and liaison officer in the U of A Science faculty, which recently began sending out CD-ROMs instead of pamphlets to prospective students."...Take a Tour - To tour Canada's Universities, colleges and other educational institutions, to a service such as www.SchoolFinder.com and start clicking... - excerpt, Edmonton Journal, May 13, 2002, p. A6 Back to top Searching for Scholarships Altogether, Canadian governments, universities, companies and nonprofit groups sponsor more than 60,000 need- and merit-based awards, ranging from $100 to $50,000 or more. And as the number of scholarships has risen, so has the number of applicants. Take the prestigious, privately funded Canadian Merit Scholarship Awards, worth up to $46,000 over four years. In the 13 years since it was established, the number of candidates vying for it has nearly quintupled, to 3,700 annually. In 2000, 175 qualified for the awards. Another hotly contested prize is the Millennium Scholarship Foundation's excellence awards, a merit-based program that accounts for five percent of the organization's scholarship budget. Last year 8,129 students applied for 900 awards, ranging from a one-time $4,000 payment to $4,800 annually, renewable over four years. The competition for scholarship dollars has turned up the pressure to maximize grades and expand résumés. The Internet is playing a key role in raising awareness of the choices. One site, studentawards.com, initiated in December 1998, and its French counterpart, boursetudes.com, launched three years ago, boasts 370,000 registered users and more than 8,500 visits a day, compared with more than 50,000 users for scholarshipscanada.com. "Scholarships are one of the first things senior students ask about," says Martha Cruikshank, guidance head at A. N. Myer Secondary School in Niagara Falls, Ont. "But often they're more savvy than the counsellors." - Excerpt, msn.ca, March 27, 2002, main page For full story click here. Back to top Test Your Post-Secondary Survival Skills At this point, you may have considered everything and picked your school. So now what? It's just a matter of time before you start preparing for your first day of classes. But wait! Are you really ready? Test your post-secondary school survival skills by checking off the boxes listed below. If you have checked off all the boxes, consider yourself on the right track... - (reprinted with permission from schoolfinder.com) - excerpt, The Student Guide, May 2002 Back to top CBC SC Episode 13: University Textbooks The Internet Go online to find sweet deals. Online shopping sites have revolutionized how we look for deals, university texts included. Street Cents recommends sticking to Canadian online sites - it saves on shipping and exchange rates. There are two options when it comes to shopping online for textbooks: School Classifieds, or independent web sites that list books for all schools. Start with the local university bookstore sites. Most campus stores allow students to post ads, and there are generally lots of deals offered here. The best online textbook site we found was Books4Exchange.com - this site lists books for all universities; it's simple to use and there's no sign up fee. Students can search for books by title, author, program or course... - excerpt, www.cbc.ca/streetcents, Street Cents Episode 13, April, 2002 - and CBC Television - original air date: April 15, 2002 Back to top CBC Radio One: Ontario Today - Universities Guide To get to your first question, there are a number of really wonderful resources on the Internet, for him to start with. Looking at entrance scholarships and a lot of guidance counsellors are in fact really using them to help out. So there's StudentsAwards.com and there's something called SchoolFinder. And you'll be able to…if he starts searching the net he'll won't find it too difficult, so that's number one. Number two, distance learning and Internet learning have been on the rise in recent years, I think though, well, its definitely a boon for lifelong education. I think that very much learning is a contact sport as an undergraduate, and I think that as much has possible you should encourage your son to take part in it. - excerpt, CBC Radio One, Ontario Today, original air date: March 22, 2002 12 - 1 p.m. Back to top Lina's Tips: A Day in the Life of a Student Entertainment Editor Sue Carr has a typical day ahead of her. She's got a movie screening, a French test and a concert. She's organizing a contest, sorting the mail and talking to writers. And she's always on the phone. Mind you, she's also in class! Carr, 23, is the entertainment editor of the Ryersonian, the weekly newspaper published by fourth-year journalism students at Ryerson University. That means a lot of running around. However, when I call her at 2:30 p.m. to ask for an interview - and even though it sounds as if tigers are running loose in the newsroom, she agrees to spend some time with me later that day. When I arrive at the Ryersonian's office in downtown Toronto, Carr is organizing her writers. "I need to make sure they're assigned stories and getting all the information and contacts they need to write them," she says.... - (reprinted with permission from schoolfinder.com) - excerpt, The Student Guide, April 2002, p. 5 For full story click here. Back to top Shopping for Scholarships - Reader's Digest Altogether, Canadian governments, universities, companies and nonprofit groups sponsor more than 60,000 need- and merit-based awards, ranging from $100 to $50,000 or more. And as the number of scholarships has risen, so has the number of applicants. Take the prestigious, privately funded Canadian Merit Scholarship Awards, worth up to $46,000 over four years. In the 13 years since it was established, the number of candidates vying for it has nearly quintupled, to 3,700 annually. In 2000, 175 qualified for the awards. Another hotly contested prize is the Millennium Scholarship Foundation's excellence awards, a merit-based program that accounts for five percent of the organization's scholarship budget. Last year 8,129 students applied for 900 awards, ranging from a one-time $4,000 payment to $4,800 annually, renewable over four years. The competition for scholarship dollars has turned up the pressure to maximize grades and expand résumés. The Internet is playing a key role in raising awareness of the choices. One site, studentawards.com, initiated in December 1998, and its French counterpart, boursetudes.com, launched three years ago, boasts 370,000 registered users and more than 8,500 visits a day, compared with more than 50,000 users for scholarshipscanada.com. "Scholarships are one of the first things senior students ask about," says Martha Cruikshank, guidance head at A. N. Myer Secondary School in Niagara Falls, Ont. "But often they're more savvy than the counsellors." - excerpt, readersdigest.ca, March 2002 Back to top Support for Youth and Education: Regional Highlights SCHOOL FINDER: RBC sponsored a bilingual, multimedia CD-ROM listing an overview of Canadian universities, colleges and private vocational schools. The CD, which helps students and parents make informed decisions about post-secondary education was distributed to 3,500 schools across Canada in 2001. - excerpt, RBC Financial Group 2001 Community Report, 2001 Back to top Shopping for Scholarships - Maclean's Altogether, Canadian governments, universities, companies and nonprofit groups sponsor more than 60,000 need- and merit-based awards, ranging from $100 to $50,000 or more. And as the number of scholarships has risen, so has the number of applicants. Take the prestigious, privately funded Canadian Merit Scholarship Awards, worth up to $46,000 over four years. In the 13 years since it was established, the number of candidates vying for it has nearly quintupled, to 3,700 annually. In 2000, 175 qualified for the awards. Another hotly contested prize is the Millennium Scholarship Foundation's excellence awards, a merit-based program that accounts for five percent of the organization's scholarship budget. Last year 8,129 students applied for 900 awards, ranging from a one-time $4,000 payment to $4,800 annually, renewable over four years. The competition for scholarship dollars has turned up the pressure to maximize grades and expand résumés. The Internet is playing a key role in raising awareness of the choices. One site, studentawards.com, initiated in December 1998, and its French counterpart, boursetudes.com, launched three years ago, boasts 370,000 registered users and more than 8,500 visits a day, compared with more than 50,000 users for scholarshipscanada.com. "Scholarships are one of the first things senior students ask about," says Martha Cruikshank, guidance head at A. N. Myer Secondary School in Niagara Falls, Ont. "But often they're more savvy than the counsellors." - excerpt, Maclean's, November 20, 2000 Back to top 2000 Books4sale... on line Finding the bargains in second-hand textbooks used to involve an arduous search of bulletin boards, used books stores and the like. Not any more. Now the used textbook marketplace is a click of the mouse away by entering www.books4exchange.com. -The Reporter, January 27, 2000 For full story click here. Back to top Books4Exchange.com - A New Era of Book Exchanging at Champlain As you may have noticed, numerous flyers are circulating the school with the name www.books4exchange.com tattooed all over them. Thanks to the CSA, Champlain Student Association, all Champlain students now have access to this site completely free of charge. This site, recently created by Edge Interactive and the Science Undergraduate Society of McGill, allows you to easily find other Champlain students to buy and sell used books with. Here's how it works... After accessing the website you simply select Champlain College and it will send you into the area of the website devoted to Champlain. Once there, you can post books you're interested in selling or search for books by department or course number which you need to buy. - The EDge, January 25, 2000 For full story click here. Back to top The Internet: Providing Unique Educational Solutions The internet is offering students other possibilities to save money too. Used textbook websites have flooded the market recently, providing alternatives for used textbook purchases and sales to the traditional local booksellers. The Science Undergraduate Society at McGill University teamed up with EDge Interactive to create Books4Exchange.com. - excerpt, The Mcgill Tribune, January 25, 2000 For full story click here. Back to top Selling Your Used Text Books From the bookstore to the Net, McGill Students have different options. A new site operated by EDge Interactive in conjunction with the SUS, Books4Exchange.com, is easier to deal with. After completing a simple registration form, students may place ads which are then categorized by course level, program, and course number to make searching easier. - excerpt, The Mcgill Tribune, January 11, 2000 Back to top New Options for Students in a Bind for Textbooks Another newcomer to World Wide Web, the McGill based Books4Exchange.com, has enjoyed a successful start to the school year. The site, run by the Science Undergraduate Society, is an eBay-like bidding forum for students in the Science and Management programs to buy and sell their used textbooks. Books4Exchange.com will be expanding both inside and beyond the McGill community within the next few months, branching out into all areas of study by the Winter term. The site is also being taken to a national level, through its partner service EDge. - excerpt, The Mcgill Tribune, September 21, 1999 Back to top New SUS Website Could Ease the Squeeze on Textbook Budgets McGill Students in Science and Management may save a few dollars on books this semester. A new website launched by the Science Undergraduate Society and EDge Interactive Publishing Inc., a new Toronto-based media company, is making used books available to students in those faculties. At www.Books4Exchange.com, students can post used books for sale at whatever asking price they choose. Students can also search for books by entering the book title, their program or the course number in which the book is used. A book is listed along with the email contact of the person who posted it. - excerpt, The Mcgill Tribune, September 8, 1999 For full story click here. Back to top